Announcements

◼ Literature offer for October: Individual copies of The Watchtower and Awake! Where interest is found on return visits, subscriptions may be offered. November: What Does God Require of Us? or Knowledge That Leads to Everlasting Life. 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 do not have a supply of such books may offer Life​—How Did It Get Here? By Evolution or by Creation? or You Can Live Forever in Paradise on Earth.

◼ The insert in this issue of Our Kingdom Ministry is the “Theocratic Ministry School Schedule for 2000” and should be kept for reference throughout 2000.

◼ If the meeting times for your congregation will change January 1, there may be a need to order a new supply of handbills to show the adjusted meeting times.

◼ Memorial invitations for 2000 in the primary language of each congregation have been included with the annual shipment of forms. If other languages are spoken in your territory and you would like a supply of invitations in those languages, these should be requested immediately on a Literature Request Form (S-14). Memorial invitations are available in Arabic, Armenian, Cambodian, Chinese, Chinese (Simplified), Croatian, East Armenian, English, French, Greek, Gujarati, Hindi, Iloko, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Laotian, Macedonian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Samoan, Spanish, Tagalog, and Vietnamese. Please request only those languages needed for your territory.

◼ Congregations should begin requesting Examining the Scriptures Daily​—2000 with their October literature request. The booklets will be available in Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Bulgarian, Cambodian, Cebuano, Chinese, Chinese (Simplified), Croatian, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Iloko, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Macedonian, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Samoan, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, 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.

◼ Beginning with the September 1, 1999, issue, The Watchtower will be available in Armenian as a semimonthly edition.

◼ New Publications Available:

New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (large size)​—Portuguese (Not the four-volume set announced earlier.)

Pay Attention to Daniel’s Prophecy!​—English, French, Spanish

◼ New Videocassettes Available:

Young People Ask​—How Can I Make Real Friends?​—English