Theocratic News

◆ In 1943 the Watchtower Bible School of Gilead was started. Since that time 59 classes, with a total enrollment of nearly 6,000, have completed the training. Students have come from 114 lands and have been assigned to 161 countries. In some 40 of these lands very little, if any, witnessing was done prior to the arrival of Gilead-trained missionaries. During the years the school has been conducted, 31 languages have been taught. When Gilead School was organized back in 1943, only 55 countries were being given a witness. Now there are Kingdom proclaimers in 210 lands.

◆ Nigeria started the new service year with 113,008 publishers reporting, their seventh consecutive peak.