Carey Barber, a member of the Governing Body of Jehovah’s Witnesses, welcomed all and opened the program, stating: “It makes us glad to know that 110 classes of Gilead students have now been trained as missionaries and assigned to territories all around the globe. ”
बंधू बारबर यांच्या सुरवातीच्या शब्दांनंतर, बंधू डॉन अॅडम्स, “परमेश्‍वराचा आशीर्वाद समृद्धी देतो ” याविषयावर ४८ विद्यार्थ्यांसहित श्रोत्यांशी बोलले.