Jehovah s Witnesses containing report for the service year of

42 Yearbook
JEHOV AD'S WITNESSES
WITH SPECIAL APPOINTMENT
All of Jehovah's witnesses have the responsibility
before Jehovah to preach the good news of
God's kingdom in all the world for the purpose
of a witness. As did the apostles in carrying on
the preaching of the good news, so do Jehovah's
witnesses today, namely: "I did not hold back
from telling you any of the things that were
profitable nor from teaching you publicly and
from house to house." (Acts 20:20, NW) The
apostles of Christ Jesus were so imbued with the
message that not long after his death they were
going throughout the territory and "every day
in the temple and from house to house they
continued without letup teaching and declaring
the good news about the Christ, Jesus." (Acts
5:42, NW) In order for this work to be accomplished
in the early days of Christianity certain
ones were appointed to positions of special responsibility
to take on supervision of the work. And
so it is in these days among Jehovah's witnesses.
In order to carry out the command of Christ Jesus
to preach this good news in all the world, in every
part of the earth, for the purpose of a witness, it
takes real organization and supervision. To that
end the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society has
set up branches in seventy-eight countries of the
earth and in these principal offices the Society has
branch servants and many persons in such offices
to assist the manager of the work. In addition to
that, appointments are made of special representatives
who go forth into the field to supervise the
work. There are zone servants, district servants
and circuit servants. These visit the congregations
throughout the world, the district and circuit
servants visiting the brothers twice a year to
oversee the progress of the ministry.
There are other special representatives in
different parts of the earth with duties that