Our Kingdom Ministry, “Question Box”
“Occasionally at meetings for field service, it might be necessary for a baptized sister to offer prayer if there is no qualified brother there to represent the group. She would need to wear an appropriate head covering. If it is likely that a qualified brother will not be present at certain meetings for service, the elders should assign a qualified sister to take the lead.”
The item answers the question ‘Who should offer prayer at congregation meetings?’ The rest of it concerns which baptized men qualify. The paragraph quoted above is the whole of what the item says about a woman, and is given in full rather than cut at its second sentence.
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Provenance and verification note for Our Kingdom Ministry, Question Box
Confidence note. The full item was fetched from the Watchtower Online Library on 19 September 2026 and read; it sits under the library's page marker for page 3. The citation code inside the document reads 'km 6/00 p. 3'.
Corroborated by. src-wom-w-2002-0715-qfr-head-covering
Notes. Our Kingdom Ministry was the monthly instruction sheet sent to congregations; a Question Box item is a direction, not a discussion piece.
Accessed. 19 September 2026 · Source ID. src-wom-km-2000-0600-question-box