20 min: “A Secure Future—How You Can Find It.” Discussion and demonstration on use of new booklet. (At previous Watchtower study remind publishers to bring Secure Future booklet to service meeting.) Want to become well acquainted with new booklets. They are designed to help us start studies. Not difficult to conduct study after it is started—problem is to get it started. How can this be done? Why not try to get the householder to look into the booklet quickly and in the simplest way possible? Could simply say to householder: “Notice this subject, ‘A Secure Future—How You Can Find It.’ This is something all of us are interested in, isn’t it?” Then, if you have the householder’s attention, you can say: “Notice what it says here.” Open to page 3 and begin reading, doing so with appropriate feeling. Read entire paragraph and then ask the question at the bottom of the page, doing so in a conversational way. No need to say, “Now I am going to read the question at the bottom of the page.” Avoid formality.

Then can have the publisher demonstrate how we might proceed with next three paragraphs (if it appears householder is receptive), reading the paragraph first, then asking the question in a conversational and animated way, but not putting householder on the spot. Publisher brings discussion to a close and makes definite arrangements to return for further discussion.