TO ALL CONGREGATIONS Re: District overseers
Dear Brothers:
March 20, 2014
We are pleased to inform you of a significant decision made by the Governing Body that will affect the work of traveling overseers worldwide. Effective September 1, 2014, the organizational role of district overseer will be discontinued. The responsibilities previously cared for by district overseers will be simplified. Some aspects of their work will now be cared for by experienced circuit overseers and Bethel representatives.
This simplification will mean that many of those who are now serving as district overseers will be able to use their spiritual qualifications and rich theocratic experience in serving once again as circuit overseers. We very much appreciate the role that district overseers have filled in training others and in strengthening the organization over the years, and we know that these spiritual men will continue to be used by Jehovah in a mighty way in their new assignments.—Isa. 60:17.
Please accept an expression of our warm Christian love. [No, I don't accept your conditional "christian love"] -Pixel.
PS to coordinator of the body of elders:
Please arrange for this letter to be read to the congregation at the first Service Meeting after its receipt or after the next Watchtower Study, whichever comes first. Thereafter, it should be posted on the information board. If the circuit overseer is visiting your congregation, he will read this letter at the conclusion of the next congregation meeting. At circuit assemblies and special assembly days, the letter will be read by the last speaker on the program at the conclusion of his talk.
