Christian Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses
- Christian Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses
The non-profit corporation Christian Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses was established to organize and administer the congregational affairs of Jehovah's Witnesses in the United States. [Letter from Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc., to All Bodies of Elders in the United States, dated February 27, 2001.] ["Our Kingdom Ministry", Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc., 2002 January p7]
Publicly announced in January 2001, the Christian Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses is a legal corporation used by the United States Branch Committee. The United States branch oversees the preaching work of Jehovah's Witnesses in the contiguous United States, Bermuda, and the Turks and Caicos Islands.
This corporation operates along with Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania and Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc. It may pass direction to traveling overseers and local congregation elders or body of elders, and even to the body of elders through the travelling overseers. District overseers, circuit overseers and the body of elders in each congregation are considered an extension of the corporation and serve to disseminate communications to the congregations from the corporation (and by association, the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses), and to organize congregational arrangements in accord with directions from the corporation.
See also
*Organizational structure of Jehovah's Witnesses
*Legal instruments of Jehovah's Witnesses
References
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