1.Business Meeting (Every six months)

Notes

• Minuets to be kept of business meetings

• There must be 50% of ecclesia present at a business meeting

• Copy of minutes to be passed to CBM linkman

• Each report to be

• Read

• Discussed

• Amended as appropriate

• Approved by 100% vote

• Signed by all present

• Hymn

• Prayer}Chairman

• Vote for presiding brother

Reports

• Minuets of intervening committee meetings

• Librarian report

• Preaching report

• Attendance Report

• Accounts Report

• Other business

• Hymn

• Prayer

2.Baptisms and Interviews

• Baptisms and interviews should only be performed by brethren from the United Kingdom.

• Baptism may performed by a Tanzanian brother if he has specific written permission from the UK linkman.

• Interviews for baptism are not allowed to be performed by a Tanzanian brother.

• Interviews will not take place unless the whole of the forty lesson correspondence have been completed by the interviewee.

• You are not a brother or a sister until you have been baptized.

3.Burial

• Take body from mortuary in coffin to place where service to be conducted

• Place coffin at front of congregation

• Family of dead person sit at front

• Baptized brother to preside over service

• Suitable hymn

• Prayer

• Reading

• Talk by baptized brother, talking about death and resurrection

• Hymn

• Prayer

• Take dead body to cemetery

• Hymn at graveside

• Prayer

• Short reading

• Short talk

• Put body in hole

• Fill with soil

• Silent prayer