[1][2] Gilead is the flagship school at the Watchtower Educational Center at Patterson, New York, United States.

Five months later, graduating students began to move out to their assignments in nine Latin-American countries, including Cuba.

[32] Students are selected by invitation, and are usually married couples in their thirties who have been involved in missionary work in their home countries for a number of years.

[33] After graduation, they are assigned mainly to Africa, South America, Asia and islands in the Pacific Ocean.

Lectures and student presentations focus on a verse-by-verse study of each book of the Bible, alternating between the Old and New Testaments, which they refer to as the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures.