2009 “Keep on the Watch” District Convention

Friday - “Prove yourselves ready” Mt 24:44

AM

Chairman's Address

“Conventions Help Us To Remain Watchful”

“Jehovah – God of Times and Seasons”

Symposium: “Imitate Faithful One's Who Remained Watchful”

How Noah, Moses, and Jeremiah did so.

Keynote Address: “How Jehovah Helps Us to Keep on the Watch!”

PM

“Answers to Questions About the Last Days”

“You Know Neither the Day Nor the Hour – Why?”

“Know that the end is near”

Symposium: “Stay Awake as Christian Families”

“Husbands, Wives, Young Ones”

“Keep Your Eye Simple”

“Keep Pursuing Spiritual Goals”

“Maintain a Family Worship Evening”

“Verses that Move Us to Keep Strict Watch”

Saturday - “Keep your senses, be watchful” 1 Pet 5:8

AM

Symposium: “Help People to Awake From Sleep”

“Our Ministry – Why So Vital?”

“Be Observant in the Ministry”

“Focus on Improving Your Skills”

“Don't Forget Your Relatives”

“Maintain Your Sense of Urgency”

“Imitate Jesus Example of Watchfulness”

“Be Vigilant With a View to Prayers”

Dedication and Baptism

PM

Symposium: “Watch Out For Satan's Traps”

“The Fire”

“The Pit”

“The Snare”

“The Trap that Chokes”

“The Trap that Crushes”

Special Presentation: “Until I Expire I Shall Not Take Away My Integrity” - Job 27:5

“Do Not Look at the Things Behind”

“Learn Watchfulness from Jesus Apostles”

Sunday - “Keep in Expectation. It will not be late!” - Hab 2:3

AM

“Keep in Expectation. It Will not be Late”

Symposium: “Keep Your Eyes on the Thing's Unseen”

“The Ten Horns Will Hate the Harlot”

“The Nations Will Have to Acknowledge Jehovah”

“All these Kingdom's will be Crushed”

“The Devil will be Bound for a 1000 Years”

“They will Build Houses and Plant Vineyards”

“The Wolf and the Lamb will Feed as One”

“God will Wipe out Every Tear”

“All those in the Memorial Tombs will Come Out”

“God will be All Things to Everyone”

Public Talk: “How Can You Survive the End of the World?”

PM

Drama

“Your Brother was Dead and Came to Life” drama on prodigal son

Watchtower Summary

“Keep in Expectation – Watching for Jehovah's Day”

Info from June 2009 Awake

Gee, haven't I heard all this sh*t before?  Sure sounds familiar.  I think it was 1978.

Hello garlic81 and welcome.  Thanks for the heads up.

These topics are the same thing they have been saying for over a 100 years,  nothing they preach ever comes true.  The famous loaded word works here:

Wait on Jehovah

I will not be there!

I'm not sure how "refreshed" we will be after this.  BATTEN DOWN THE HATCHES!!

Don't Forget Your Relatives”

Even the disfellowshipped ones?

“Maintain a Family Worship Evening”

And the other shoe drops... We've been expecting this since they eliminated a meeting night by folding the book study into the school/svc mtg.

“Keep Your Eye Simple”

“Keep Pursuing Spiritual Goals”

Oh good, more information on the evils of higher education, and the virtue of the full-time ministry.

 Here's Friday with the real intent of the talks:

“Conventions Help Us To Remain Watchful”

“Jehovah – God of Times and Seasons”
Gentile Times (just the latest understanding of that) and We-don't-know-how-many Seasons.

Symposium: “Imitate Faithful One's Who Remained Watchful”
How Noah, Moses, and Jeremiah did so.

Keynote Address: “How Jehovah Helps Us to Keep on the Watch!”
Just stay in Jehovah's organization.  Please.

“Answers to Questions About the Last Days”
Let us reinforce the mind-control that it really is the last days, so many have doubts.

“You Know Neither the Day Nor the Hour – Why?”
We haven't told you the day and the hour.  If needed, we will tell you the year- again.

“Know that the end is near”
If we keep saying it, you should believe it- again.

Symposium: “Stay Awake as Christian Families”
“Husbands, Wives, Young Ones”
“Keep Your Eye Simple"
“Keep Pursuing Spiritual Goals”
“Maintain a Family Worship Evening”

“Verses that Move Us to Keep Strict Watch”
Snippets of the Bible taken out of context to fit our doctrine.

 Here's Saturday with the real intent of the talks:

Symposium: “Help People to Awake From Sleep”
“Our Ministry – Why So Vital?”
“Be Observant in the Ministry”
“Focus on Improving Your Skills”
“Don't Forget Your Relatives”
“Maintain Your Sense of Urgency”
You cannot stop the waste-of-time literature distribution.  We need
to control you with it.  Just stay busy and don't think.  Drag your
relatives into the religion.

“Imitate Jesus Example of Watchfulness”
Snippets of Jesus from the scriptures taken out of context for our purposes.

“Be Vigilant With a View to Prayers”
If you don't feel the spirit, it's your fault.  We told you to pray.

Dedication and Baptism
Look at the growth, look at the growth.

Symposium: “Watch Out For Satan's Traps”
“The Fire”
“The Pit”
“The Snare”
“The Trap that Chokes”
“The Trap that Crushes”
If you are sure you did everything right, but still don't feel good,
You can blame Satan instead of yourself.

Special Presentation: “Until I Expire I Shall Not Take Away My Integrity” - Job 27:5
Job put up with more than you guys- He stayed faithful.

“Do Not Look at the Things Behind”
Stop thinking about our past errors- just believe us NOW.

“Learn Watchfulness from Jesus Apostles”
Snippets of scripture that say the apostles all insisted on a
Global Preaching Work.

Here's Sunday with the real intent of the talks

“Keep in Expectation. It Will not be Late”
We think we can still recycle this thought another year.

Symposium: “Keep Your Eyes on the Thing's Unseen”
“The Ten Horns Will Hate the Harlot”
“The Nations Will Have to Acknowledge Jehovah”
“All these Kingdom's will be Crushed”
“The Devil will be Bound for a 1000 Years”
“They will Build Houses and Plant Vineyards”
“The Wolf and the Lamb will Feed as One”
“God will Wipe out Every Tear”
“All those in the Memorial Tombs will Come Out”
“God will be All Things to Everyone”
Difficult doctrine to convince you all that WE ARE RIGHT. 
Go ahead and take a nap if you don't enjoy difficult doctrine.
We purposely put this subject on the third day for Sunday-only
visitors to be impressed about our doctrine, but if you don't get
it, just see that it is complicated and it must be right.

Public Talk: “How Can You Survive the End of the World?”
If the difficult doctrine was too much for you, it should have at
least impressed you- the public talk is a simpler version that tells
you that the difficult doctrine was proof, this is now what you need
to do- just believe us.

Drama
“Your Brother was Dead and Came to Life” drama on prodigal son
Get those children of yours back in the organization.  Please.

“Keep in Expectation – Watching for Jehovah's Day”
Stupid exaggerated stories from a Bethelite, D.O., or other
heavy WTS representative to say that this convention and your
literature distribution and your keeping your name badges on
has been a good witness to outsiders- some have been so impressed
that they will want to learn more.  WAKE UP NOW AND JUST REMEMBER
THIS LAST TALK IF NOTHING ELSE.  Sorry about going overtime, but
there were so many good stories to tell you.

Actually the concept of having a regular family study every Monday evening was presented as a replacement for the congregation book study when it was combined with the TMS and SM.

Sorry about going overtime, but
there were so many good stories to tell you.

And we haven't even gotten to the 15-minute closing prayer yet.

usually I can tell waht the releases will be from the titles - this time I can not

My guesses for releases are that the last talk on Friday - there will be a tract with different verses that should move a person to keep on the watch. That may be used instead of the Keep on the Watch brochure since I believe they aren't printing that anymore.

On Saturday I think it may be a book to replace the one from 1984 Survival Into a New Earth. There was a chapter in there about not longing for the things behind, and different areas in the book where it refered to Jesus apostles being watchful. There hasn't been a book recently about paradise or the events that will lead into that, aside from where it is mentioned in the bible teach book, in the mags, etc. On the back of the Awake it does group the last two talks on Saturday together so they will probably start off about not looking to what's behind, then talk how Jesus apostles kept on the watch and maybe release a book on that.

Recently in past years the books have been either to teach doctrine, about conduct, about Jesus, directed to children, etc.

That's my guesses anyways.

Thanks for the info Garlic.  And welcome to the board!

A Drama on the Prodigal Son?  Can't wait to hear how they try to apply this to the "situation today in the congregation".

Is "Family worship" now part of JW talk? I seem to remember I have seen it a couple of times before (in quotations on this board, along with the Book Study change maybe), but to me it sounds more Evangelical than JW...

Family Worship is now supposed to be on the night that the old bookstudy took place

The Drama about the Prodigal son is interpreted as how those who held on to old beliefs are like the wicked other son.  But the prodigal returned acceptes whatever his father (aka the BORG) dishes out.

Its all in the "greatest man "book.

HB

nice intro garlic...wecome!.....but.....you will likely get few interested by this subject line and most will prob not click on it!...oompa