Announcements
◼ Literature offer for October: The Watchtower and Awake! magazines. Where interest is found on return visits, subscriptions may be offered. Starting on October 16, Kingdom News No. 36 will be distributed. November: Distribution of Kingdom News No. 36 will continue. Congregations that complete their territory by reaching householders in each dwelling with a copy of Kingdom News No. 36 may offer the Require brochure or the Knowledge book. If people already have these, either the Live Forever book or the Creation book may be used. December: Knowledge That Leads to Everlasting Life with the New World Translation. January: Any 192-page book published prior to 1986 that the congregation may have in stock. Congregations that have on hand Mankind’s Search for God may also offer it.
◼ The insert in this issue of Our Kingdom Ministry is the “Theocratic Ministry School Schedule for 2001” and should be kept for reference throughout 2001.
◼ If the meeting times for your congregation will change January 1, the congregation secretary should notify the Society of the changes by submitting the Congregation Meeting Information and Handbill Request form (S-5). If needed, a new supply of handbills can be ordered on the same form. Handbills should be requested at least eight weeks before you wish to receive them.
◼ Starting the week of February 5, 2001, the book Is There a Creator Who Cares About You? will be considered at the Congregation Book Study. Congregations needing a supply of these books should request them on their next monthly literature request. Beginning in November 2000, question booklets for use with the Creator book will automatically be included with literature shipments. Congregations will not need to request these booklets. Booklets will be shipped in lots of 25, according to the size of each congregation. If additional booklets are needed, these should be requested on a Literature Request Form (S-14). Booklets will be available in the following languages: Albanian, Arabic, Chinese, Chinese (Simplified), Croatian, Czech, Dutch, East Armenian, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Macedonian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Swahili, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese.
◼ Congregations should begin requesting Examining the Scriptures Daily—2001 with their October literature request. The booklets will be available in Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Bulgarian, Cambodian, Cebuano, Chinese, Chinese (Simplified), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, East Armenian, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Iloko, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Macedonian, Malayalam, Norwegian, Papiamento, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Samoan, Serbian, Slovak, Solomon Islands Pidgin, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, and Vietnamese. Until these booklets are available and shipments are made, they will appear as “Pending” on congregation packing lists. Examining the Scriptures booklets are special-request items.
◼ New Publications Available:
Isaiah’s Prophecy—Light for All Mankind I—English, French, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog, Vietnamese
Jehovah—Who Is He? (Tract No. 23)—Dutch, Hindi
Jehovah’s Witnesses—Who Are They? What Do They Believe?—English, French, Greek, Italian, Spanish
Knowledge That Leads to Everlasting Life—Haitian Creole, Kwangali, Nepali
Watch Tower Publications Index 1998—German, Italian, Portuguese
Will Suffering Ever End? (Tract No. 75)—Cambodian
You Can Be God’s Friend!—Armenian, Chinese, English, French, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog, Vietnamese
◼ New Audiocassettes Available:
Kingdom Melodies Volume 9 (single cassette)
Numbers (set of three cassettes)—Dutch
The Good News According to Matthew (set of three cassettes)—Chinese (Mandarin)
The Good News According to Mark (set of two cassettes)—Chinese (Mandarin), Dutch
The Secret of Family Happiness (five cassettes in an album)—Korean
Warning Examples for Our Day (Drama, single cassette)—English
What Does God Require of Us? (single cassette)—Cambodian, Ukrainian
◼ New Compact Discs Available:
Kingdom Melodies Volume 9
◼ New Videocassettes Available:
Our Whole Association of Brothers—English