Announcements
◼ Literature offer for March: Knowledge That Leads to Everlasting Life. A special effort will be made to start home Bible studies. 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.
◼ Publishers who wish to serve as auxiliary pioneers in April and May should make their plans now and turn in their application early. This will help the elders to make necessary field service arrangements and have sufficient magazines and other literature on hand. The names of all who are approved to auxiliary pioneer should be announced to the congregation each month.
◼ This issue of Our Kingdom Ministry contains the complete study schedule for the book Pay Attention to Daniel’s Prophecy! You may want to photocopy it and insert it in your personal copy of the book for handy reference.
◼ The presiding overseer or someone designated by him should audit the congregation’s accounts on March 1 or as soon as possible thereafter. When this has been done, make an announcement to the congregation after the next accounts report is read.
◼ The Memorial will be held Wednesday, April 19, 2000. If your congregation normally has meetings on Wednesday, these are to be switched to another day of the week if the Kingdom Hall is available. If this is not possible and your Service Meeting is affected, the parts that are particularly applicable to your congregation may be incorporated into another Service Meeting.
◼ Those associated with a congregation should send all new and renewal subscriptions for The Watchtower and Awake!, including their personal subscriptions, through the congregation.
◼ The Society does not fill individual publishers’ requests for literature. The presiding overseer should arrange for an announcement to be made each month before the congregation’s monthly request for literature is sent to the Society so that all who are interested in obtaining personal literature items may advise the brother handling literature. Please keep in mind which publications are special-request items.
◼ It is important that groups of 20 or more persons planning to visit the Society’s facilities first correspond by mail with the Central Tour Desk at 100 Watchtower Drive, Patterson, NY 12563-9204. The Central Tour Desk will care for groups that will be visiting the Society’s facilities at Brooklyn, Patterson, and Wallkill, New York, or the Assembly Hall at Jersey City, New Jersey. Please send information on the number coming and the dates and times for visiting each location. The Society will provide a description of the tours that are available as well as a map giving directions to each location. LODGING INFORMATION HAS BEEN SENT TO THE CONGREGATION ELDERS AND MAY BE OBTAINED FROM THE CONGREGATION SECRETARY. Before your visit, please review the March 1998 Our Kingdom Ministry Question Box regarding proper dress and grooming when visiting Bethel homes.
◼ A packet of legal material is available to assist publishers who are involved in lawsuits over child custody and visitation matters in which our religion is under attack. The packet should be requested by the body of elders only in a case in which it is evident that the publisher’s religious beliefs will be at issue. For those facing secular issues on child custody or visitation, helpful information can be found in Awake! of December 8, 1997, pages 3-12; in Awake! of October 22, 1988, pages 2-14; and on the chart found in Awake! of April 22, 1991, page 9.
◼ Congregations may now begin submitting requests for Watchtower Library—1999 Edition. This compact disc will be available in the same nine languages as the 1997 edition, that is, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese (requires Japanese version of Windows), Portuguese, and Spanish. Congregations may begin submitting their orders, but please keep in mind that these are special-request items. Until compact discs are available and shipments are made, they will appear as “Pending” on congregation packing lists.
◼ New Publications Available:
Knowledge That Leads to Everlasting Life—Pangasinan, Tumbuka
Life in a Peaceful New World (Tract No. 15)—Hindi
Questions Young People Ask—Answers That Work—Slovak
Watch Tower Publications Index 1999—English
What Does God Require of Us?—Pangasinan, Zulu
What Happens to Us When We Die?—Swahili
What Hope for Dead Loved Ones? (Tract No. 16)—Bengali, Hindi
Why You Can Trust the Bible (Tract No. 13)—Hindi
◼ New Audiocassettes Available:
Families—Make Daily Bible Reading Your Way of Life! (Drama, single cassette)—Korean, Spanish
Knowledge That Leads to Everlasting Life (five cassettes in an album)—French, Quechua
The Good News According to Matthew (set of three cassettes)—Korean
The Good News According to Mark (set of two cassettes)—Korean
The Good News According to Luke (set of three cassettes)—Korean
The Good News According to John (set of two cassettes)—Korean
◼ New Braille Publications Available:
2000 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses (three volumes)—Grade-two English
Jehovah—Who Is He? (Tract No. 23; one volume)—Grade-two English; Grade-one Spanish
Jesus Christ—Who Is He? (Tract No. 24; one volume)—Grade-two English; Grade-one Spanish
Pay Attention to Daniel’s Prophecy! (three volumes)—Grade-two French; Grade-two German
Pay Attention to Daniel’s Prophecy! (four volumes)—Grade-one French; Grade-one Italian
Please mark requests for Braille publications ATTENTION: BRAILLE DESK. Include name and address of the person who will use the Braille material.
◼ New Videocassettes Available:
The Bible—Its Power in Your Life—Chinese (Cantonese), Chinese (Mandarin)