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A similar Bible School for Christian Couples was introduced in 2010 for wives to attend with their husbands. In 1987, an ancillary 8½ week Bible School for Single Brothers was introduced for single elders and ministerial servants (their term for deacons). Encyclopædia Britannica notes that Gilead was intended to train "missionaries and leaders" two current members of the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses are Gilead graduates, as were four deceased members. In 2008, Gilead School surpassed 8000 students. Watchtower Educational Center in Patterson, New York since 1995.Īs of 2014, Gilead has trained 136 classes.Watchtower Farms in Wallkill, New York from 1988 to 1995 and.Watch Tower Society headquarters in Brooklyn, New York from 1961 to 1988.Kingdom Farm in South Lansing, New York from 1943 to 1960.Gilead School has held classes at several of the facilities operated by the Watchtower Society: As early as 1956, graduates were serving "in about a hundred different lands". Five months later, graduating students began to move out to their assignments in nine Latin-American countries, including Cuba. Originally intended as a temporary program, the first class began on February 1, 1943. Knorr, then president of the Watchtower Society, proposed the Watchtower Bible School of Gilead as an opportunity to expand their global preaching efforts. Gilead is the flagship school at the Watchtower Educational Center at Patterson, New York, United States. Watchtower Bible School of Gilead is the formal name of the missionary school of Jehovah's Witnesses, typically referred to simply as Gilead or Gilead School.