Bethel Departments
This department handles the maintenance, fixing, and cleaning of all Bethel vehicles, from lawnmowers to commuter vans.
What is the Garage / Vehicle Maintenance Department?
This is the exact total duration of a standard Midweek meeting (Our Christian Life and Ministry) from the opening song to the closing prayer.
What is 1 hour and 45 minutes?
This is the name of the official mobile app used by publishers worldwide to access the Bible, videos, and meeting workbooks.
What is the JW Library app?
This is the exciting, official theme of the current 2026 Regional and International Convention series.
What is "Eternal Happiness"?
Noah built this massive floating object out of gopher wood to save his family and the animals from the global flood.
What is the Ark?
If a congregation's sound system goes out or they need blueprints to build a new Kingdom Hall, this department is the one they contact.
What is the LDC (Local Design/Construction)?
Every Kingdom Hall has a counter where publishers go to pick up their text publications, magazines, and field service supplies. It is simply called this
What is the Literature Counter?
This specific piece of equipment, introduced globally a few years ago, completely changed public witnessing in busy metropolitan areas and street corners.
What is a Literature Cart?
At the recent regional conventions, the organization has been releasing episodes of this groundbreaking, multi-part video epic about the life of Christ.
What is "The Good News According to Jesus"?
Young David defeated the giant warrior Goliath using a single smooth stone and this simple shepherd's tool.
What is a Sling (or Slingshot)?
This department handles the massive logistical task of making sure thousands of Bethelites are fed balanced, hot meals every single day.
What is the Bethel Kitchen / Food Services?
This brother is assigned to sit at the back console to control the microphones, change the TV screen lyrics, and mix the sound levels.
What is the Audio/Video Attendant (or Sound Servant)?
When a publisher encounters an interested person in the ministry who speaks a different language, they use this specific app to learn a simple greeting or show them a video in their own tongue.
What is the JW Language app?
Back during the global pandemic, conventions weren't held in stadiums at all, but were instead delivered entirely via this method.
What is Streamed/Downloaded via JW Broadcasting (at home)?
To save baby Moses from the Egyptian soldiers, his mother placed him inside a waterproof basket and let him float down this famous river.
What is the Nile River?
This department reads and reviews all incoming letters from publishers asking complex scriptural questions, and coordinates the writing of new publications.
What is the Writing Correspondence Department?
To ensure safety, greet the friends, and assist with seating and parking, brothers are assigned to this position at the doors and inside the auditorium.
What is an Attendant?
This is the term used for a specific geographical area or street grid assigned to a group of publishers to thoroughly cover during door-to-door or business preaching.
What is a Territory (or Territory Map)?
Before switching to the modern 3-day Friday-through-Sunday format we have now, international and regional conventions historically lasted for this many days.
What is 8 days (or 5 days in later years)?
Jesus used a little boy's lunch consisting of two fish and five of these items to miraculously feed a crowd of over 5,000 people
What are Loaves of Bread?
Known for its quiet atmosphere, this specific department uses high-tech mixing boards and soundproof booths to record audio dramas and the audio versions of the Watchtower.
What is the Audio/Video Services Department?
This is the name of the designated room at the back of many Kingdom Halls with a glass window where parents can sit with restless young children while still listening to the program.
What is the Second School room (or "Auxiliary classroom / Cry room")?
In the organized preaching work, this is the title given to a baptized brother who oversees all territory assignments and ensures maps are rotated regularly.
What is the Territory Servant?
This is the total number of governing body members who currently coordinate the global work from Warwick.
What is 9 (or simply "The Governing Body").
When the Israelites were traveling through the wilderness, Jehovah provided this unique, sweet food that appeared on the ground every morning.
What is Manna?