Since its first class in 1943 at the school’s original campus in South Lansing, New York, Gilead School has trained over 7,000 students for missionary service.
In addition, the training received by the elders who attended the first class of the Kingdom Ministry School equipped them to pass on this training to other elders.
When visiting Concord Street, he said: “Here you are with a first-class printing establishment on your hands, and nobody around the place that knows a thing about what to do with it.
He encouraged the students to “Maintain the Missionary Spirit,” commending them for showing the same missionary spirit as the first class did back in 1943, when he was serving as the registrar for the school.