Councils and Presidencies Meetings: Schedules

This subpage illustrates meetings, conferences schedules.

There are two types of presidents – those who serve full-time, and have dedicated offices in district buildings, and those who serve part-time, serving for 45 minutes every Monday to Thursday.


	Type of presidency	Times of service in a week
Part time presidents	Branch, Village, Districts, business development, knowledge & records presidents	Monday to Thursday 8:00 – 8:45 AM
Full time presidents	Agency (Trustee, operational, regulatory ) presidents, area, and world area presidents	Monday to Thursday, 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM, with 2 hrs lunchbreak

Presidencies meet weekly, as summarized here:

	Presidencies meetings
Group	Meeting time	Day	Venue
All community presidencies of four (including branch presidencies)	9:00 – 9:45 AM	Thursday	Presiding president’s office
Area presidencies of four (Seventies)	9:00 – 9:45 AM	Thursday	Virtual meeting
World area presidencies of four	9:00 – 9:45 AM	Thursday	Virtual meeting

Presiding and clerking at presidency meetings follows the following order:

Meeting	Presiding	Clerking
First meeting	Partnered male	Single female
Second meeting	Partnered female	Partnered male
Third meeting	Single male	Partnered female
Fourth meeting	Single female	Single male

Agency councils meet weekly. village, district, bureau, trustee, and regulatory councils meet monthly, as detailed here:

	Weekly council meetings
Council	Time	Day	Venue
Agency 1- 12 councils	10:00 – 10:45 AM	Thursday	Presiding president’s meeting + adjacent office
Agency 13 – 24 councils	11:00 – 11:45 AM	Thursday	Presiding president’s meeting + adjacent office
	Monthly council meetings
Village councils	10:00 – 10:45 AM	Fourth Thursday of a month	Presiding president’s meeting + adjacent office
District councils	10:00 – 10:45 AM	Fourth Thursday of a month	Presiding president’s meeting + adjacent office
Bureau councils, bureaus 1- 4	11:00 – 11:45 AM	Fourth Thursday of a month	Presiding president’s meeting + adjacent office
Bureau councils, bureaus 5 – 8	10:00 – 10:45 AM	Fourth Thursday of a month	Presiding president’s meeting + adjacent office
Trustee councils (demographic)	12:00 – 12:45 PM	Fourth Thursday of a month	Presiding presidency’s buildings, 1 – 12 (assembly hall divided into four rooms)
Regulatory councils (demographic)	12:00 – 12:45 PM	Fourth Thursday of a month	Presiding presidency’s buildings, 1 – 12 (assembly hall divided into four rooms)

Full trustee and regulatory councils’ meetings take place on the last week of a quarter. During the same week, community quarterly conferences are held, on Sunday. The following week, councils of 50, and the world council (12 world area presidencies meet.

Quarterly meetings and conferences
	Quarterly conferences
Partnered males	8AM – 5:45PM	13th Sunday of a quarter	Lower court, building 5
Partnered females	8AM – 5:45PM	13th Sunday of a quarter	Upper court, building 5
Single males	8AM – 5:45PM	13th Sunday of a quarter	Lower court, building 17
Single females	8AM – 5:45PM	13th Sunday of a quarter	Upper court, building 17
		–
	trustees and regulatory councils meetings
Full trustee council (48 presidents)	8:00AM – 12 PM with breaks	Last Saturday of the quarter	Presiding presidency’s building, 1-12, selected by lottery in previous meeting
Full Regulatory council (48 presidents)	8:00AM – 12 PM with breaks	Last Saturday of the quarter	Presiding presidency’s building, 13 – 24, selected by lottery in previous meeting

	Council of 50 meetings
Operational councils	8:00AM – 1 PM with breaks	First week of a quarter, Tuesday – Friday	presiding presidency’s building, conference hall
trustee councils	8:00AM – 1 PM with breaks	First week of a quarter, Tuesday – Friday	presiding presidency’s building, conference hall
regulatory councils	8:00AM – 1 PM with breaks	First week of a quarter, Tuesday – Friday	presiding presidency’s building, conference hall
		–
	World area council
Quarterly world area conference	8:00AM – 4PM with breaks	First Tuesday of a quarter, Tuesday – Thursday	Presiding presidency’s community, one of storehouse corner facilitiesone of storehouse corner facilities
World area council committees	8:00AM – 4PM with breaks	Thursday & Friday	council’s Presiding presidency’s community, facility divided into smaller rooms

During quarterly conferences, operational agency presidencies make presentations about their agencies to gathered presidents of the same demographic. The day’s timetable is as follows:

Quarterly conference schedule
Bureau 1	Agency 1	8 – 8:15
	Agency 2	8:15-8:30
	Agency 3	8:30-8:45
Break: 8:45 – 9:00 AM
Bureau 5	Agency 13	9-9:15
	Agency 14	9:15-9:30
	Agency 15	9:30-9:45
Break: 9:45 – 10:00 AM
Bureau 2	Agency 4	10-10:15
	Agency 5	10:15-10:30
	Agency 6	10:30-10:45
Break: 10:45 – 11:00 AM
Bureau 6	Agency 16	11:00 – 11:15
	Agency 17	11:15 – 11:30
	Agency 18	11:30-11:45
Lunch break: 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM
Bureau 3	Agency 7	2:00 – 2:15
	Agency 8	2:15 – 2:30
	Agency 9	2:30 – 2:45
Break: 2:45 – 3:00 PM
Bureau 7	Agency 19	3:00 – 3:15
	Agency 20	3:15 – 3:30
	Agency 21	3:30 – 3:45
Break: 3:45 – 4:00 PM
Bureau 4	Agency 10	4:00 – 4:15
	Agency 11	4:15 – 4:30
	Agency 12	4:30 – 4:45
Break: 4:45 – 5:00 PM
Bureau 8	Agency 22	5:00 – 5:15
	Agency 23	5:15 – 5:30
	Agency 24	5:30 – 5:45