The Gilead graduate Videos are now up on JW org TV. They've outdone themselves this time by presenting 3 videos. I didn't listen to it all but here is a little summary of them.
Losch's talk about spiritual richness. He talked about the students not attending so they could personally become spiritually rich (that would be a wrong reason) but they came because they love God and want to help others. He promised that Jehovah would care for all the daily needs of the Gillead graduates and their families.
Splane - talked about being loyal like Baruck
Br Coffin - Apply the golden rule - "do unto others as you would have them do unto you". Keep on forgiving. When you leave this place you will be continue to be surrounded by imperfect people trying to do the perfect will of God in some of the most difficult circumstances of human history.
Bro Mark Numair - To keep the miracle going. Two prayers by Hannah recorded by Samuel. He said that today you may have a work assignment, tomorrow it might change. You're not dedicated to a work assignment you are dedicated to Jehovah. Motive is important. Don't worry about negative things said about you just live your life so that no one will believe those negative things said about you. You've been here for 5 months and stuck together like glue, show that same interest in others in your assignment. We are not a military organization we are a family and we build others up.
The next video are presentations by the students. Sounds like their preaching work would be much more effective if they just travelled all the time.
Morris - We are supposed to always do our best to rejoice.
Next was the presentation, their certificates and placements.
Surprise, just about all of the graduates have been assigned back to their original homelands.
Another surprise for me personally was having known one of the graduates many years ago. She had been working at the Sydney Bethel with her husband before attending the Gillead School.
There were others amongst the graduates who had also been working at their Bethel home. Going by the stats that Losch gave most of them have been serving full time, either witnessing or Bethel. I guess there will be many surprised family members and friends surprised to hear that they will be returning to their home countries. I did not hear whether they were offered positions as regular pioneers or not.