Ministerial Training School

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Ministerial Training School is an 8½ week intense bible based educational program for single elders and ministerial servants. They leave being better able to assist those in the congregations they return to. The school covers many areas including detailed bible study, public speaking skills, teaching, preaching and organisational arrangements. ^[1]

They are generally assigned back to their home congregations but are often offered the opportunity to serve in a more needy congregation or area, as and when the need arises. Usually this is in their home country but sometimes can be abroad. They are sometimes used in the capacity of travelling overseers, (Organizational structure of Jehovah's Witnesses) assigned to help groups of congregations.^[2] No matter what opportunites or privleges that are offered to graduates of the school, as with all Jehovah's Witnesses, they receive no income.

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^ 11/15/06 p. 10 A School Whose Graduates Benefit People Worldwide
^ "Jehovah's Witnesses - Proclaimers of God's Kingdom" p. 20 "Traveling Overseers—Fellow Workers in the Truth " © Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania 1993 | "A circuit overseer is assigned to care for a circuit with about 18 to 25 congregations. He visits each congregation in the circuit about twice a year and after two or three years is assigned to another circuit. In this way the congregations can benefit from the varying experience and abilities of different circuit overseers."