Announcements

◼ Offer for May and June: Five Questions Answered in the Bible​—On DVD, What Does the Bible Really Teach?​—On DVD, or Would You Like to Know the Truth?​—On DVD. If the congregation places its entire supply of Five Questions Answered in the Bible​—On DVD, publishers should offer Questions Answered in the Bible—​On DVD. July and August: Good News From God!​—On DVD or one of the following: Listen to God and Live Forever—​On DVD, The Bible​—What Is Its Message?​—On DVD, or You Can Be God’s Friend!​—On DVD.

◼ Beneficiaries of a government program known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) may apply to serve as temporary Bethel family members or temporary volunteers. When answering questions regarding citizenship on the application, these individuals should identify themselves as DACA beneficiaries.

◼ As a reminder, each year the elders should review with the congregation pertinent points from the January 6, 2012, letter regarding disaster preparedness and response.

◼ Field Service Highlights: As of February 1, 2014, the United States branch office began to oversee the territory and congregations in Jamaica, including the Cayman Islands. What unity among the more than 1.2 million publishers in the United States branch territory! This includes the fifty United States, The Bahamas, Bermuda, the British and U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, and the Turks and Caicos Islands.​—Ps. 133:1.