Announcements

◼ Literature offer for October: The Watchtower and Awake! magazines. Where interest is shown, offer the tract Would You Like to Know More About the Bible? with the objective of starting a Bible study. November: Learn From the Great Teacher. If individuals say they have no children, offer the brochure Keep on the Watch! December: The Greatest Man Who Ever Lived. As an alternative offer, you may use Draw Close to Jehovah or The Secret of Family Happiness. January: Keep on the Watch! Congregations that do not have a supply of such brochures may offer any 192-page book printed on paper that discolors or any book published prior to 1991 with the exception of Creation, Mankind’s Search for God, and Young People Ask.

◼ Since December has five full weekends, it would be an excellent month to auxiliary pioneer.

◼ The video program Transfusion-Alternative Health Care​—Meeting Patient Needs and Rights will be considered at a Service Meeting in January. If needed, copies should be requested through the congregation as soon as possible.

◼ The insert in this issue of Our Kingdom Ministry is the “Theocratic Ministry School Schedule for 2008” and should be kept for reference throughout 2008.

◼ Please note that the brother presenting the last part on the Service Meeting should introduce the closing song. Thereafter, he or another qualified brother assigned in advance will offer the concluding prayer.

◼ The special public talk for the 2008 Memorial season will be given during the week of March 31, 2008. The subject of the talk will be announced later. Those congregations having the visit of the circuit overseer or an assembly that weekend will have the special talk the following week. No congregation should have the special talk before March 31.

◼ At times, questions arise as to whether it is appropriate for the branch office or a congregation to be designated to receive donations from programs that offer to contribute to charitable organizations. The local elders can address such inquiries in accord with guidelines they have received. Publishers should obtain theocratic direction from the elders before deciding to participate in such donation programs.