We now resume our account of the 1960’s. The year 1961 brought the United Worshipers District Assembly program to Canada with all its valuable instruction. The English sessions at Vancouver were attended by 28,952 persons, and 606 were baptized. During that noteworthy assembly the complete New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures in English was released, much to the delight of the delegates. At the French-speaking assembly in Ottawa, 2,242 were present, and 37 were baptized.

Due to a situation that had developed over the years, some men who were shouldering responsibility in connection with our assemblies were not being used or had ceased to be used as overseers in their own congregations. But this situation changed. All who served in such capacities at the 11 Courageous Ministers District Assemblies of 1962 (attended by 44,711 persons) and at all subsequent circuit and other assemblies had to be men who qualified as overseers in the local congregations where they lived. Appropriately, then, the desire was to have in positions of oversight only men who were qualified according to the Scriptures.