Announcements
◼ Literature offer for April and May: Individual copies of The Watchtower and Awake! Have Require brochure available for interested people, and endeavor to start home Bible studies. June: What Does God Require of Us? Concentrate on starting home Bible studies. July and August: Any of the following 32-page brochures may be used: Does God Really Care About Us?, Enjoy Life on Earth Forever!, Should You Believe in the Trinity?, The Divine Name That Will Endure Forever, The Government That Will Bring Paradise, What Happens to Us When We Die?, What Is the Purpose of Life—How Can You Find It?, and When Someone You Love Dies. The brochures A Book for All People, Our Problems—Who Will Help Us Solve Them?, Spirits of the Dead—Can They Help You or Harm You? Do They Really Exist?, and Will There Ever Be a World Without War? may be offered where appropriate.
◼ Beginning in April, district convention lapel badge cards for 2000 in Armenian, Chinese, English, French, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Vietnamese will automatically be included with literature shipments. It will not be necessary to request these. Based on the size of each congregation, cards will be shipped in lots of 25. If additional badge cards are needed by the congregations, these should be requested on a Literature Request Form (S-14). It is necessary to request plastic badge card holders for any in the congregation who desire them.
◼ The Society has a supply of ENGLISH bound volumes of The Watchtower for the years 1951 to 1955, 1987, 1995, and 1996, and Awake! for the years 1987 and 1989. Any publishers or new congregations that desire these publications may now request them through the congregation literature servant.
◼ As announced in Our Kingdom Ministry of March 2000, Watchtower Library—1999 Edition on CD-ROM is now being produced in nine languages. Please keep in mind that this is not a product for public distribution, for school libraries, or for ones who merely express interest in Jehovah’s Witnesses. Watchtower Library—1999 is a provision for members of the congregation and is made available only through the congregation. Until compact discs are available and shipments are made, they will appear as “Pending” on congregation packing lists.
◼ New Publications Available:
A Book for All People—Estonian
Is There a Creator Who Cares About You?—Chinese
Jehovah—Who Is He? (Tract No. 23)—Cebuano
Life in a Peaceful New World (Tract No. 15)—Bengali, Romany (Macedonia)
New World Translation of the Christian Greek Scriptures—Arabic
What Do Jehovah’s Witnesses Believe? (Tract No. 14)—Bengali
What Does God Require of Us?—Efik, Igbo, Trukese
What Happens to Us When We Die?—Estonian
Why You Can Trust the Bible (Tract No. 13)—Bengali
◼ New Audiocassettes Available:
Families—Make Daily Bible Reading Your Way of Life! (Drama, single cassette)—Spanish
My Book of Bible Stories (six cassettes in an album)—Samoan
Preserving Life in Time of Famine (Drama, single cassette)—Portuguese
The Good News According to John—Korean
◼ New Videocassettes Available:
Noah—He Walked With God—Romanian
The Bible—Its Power in Your Life—Dutch, Italian