Announcements
● Literature offer for December: New World Translation and book Happiness—How to Find It for $3.10. January: Watchtower subscription for $2.50. February: One 192-page book. Feature any you have in stock locally other than the Happiness or Truth books.
● Congregation accounts should be audited on December 1, or as soon as possible thereafter, by the presiding overseer or someone he appoints.
● In preparing the agenda for the regularly scheduled elders’ meeting during December, elders should discuss the book study arrangement: Are studies located in the most suitable homes? Are the groups too large or too small? Are the best qualified brothers being used as conductors? What can be done to build up attendance? Can service activities be better organized?—See or book, pages 100, 101.
● The Society now has a supply of Bible cassettes of The Good News According to Matthew and The Good News According to Mark in English with Braille labels for use by the blind. Each set is $3. We also have available Kingdom Melodies-I with Braille labels. Each tape is $2. These tapes may be obtained by writing to the Society’s BRAILLE DESK. Your remittance should accompany the order. Cassettes should not be stocked.
● Bound volumes of The Watchtower and Awake! for 1980. Publishers and pioneers! Please order your volumes through your congregation. Congregations should now begin collecting requests for these volumes. Then on January 1, 1981, or as soon as possible thereafter, send this order to the Society using the regular Literature Order form. Order only the number of volumes for which you have requests. The volumes will be available in English, French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish at $3.00 a copy. Order Dutch and German after February 15. There is no pioneer rate. Payment should not accompany the congregation order sent to the Society. (See Cost List, paragraph 21.)
● The Society is pleased to announce that the first phase in moving its offices to the newly renovated office building at 25 Columbia Heights in Brooklyn took place in October and November, 1980. Please note that the Society’s new official business address will be 25 Columbia Heights, Brooklyn, NY 11201. All correspondence in connection with congregation matters such as literature orders, reports, Kingdom Halls and other service and business matters should be sent to this address. (Preprinted envelopes with the 117 Adams Street address may be used until the supply is depleted.) The business telephone number at this address is (212) 625-3600 (858-1240 has been discontinued) and will be in service weekdays from 8:00 a.m. until 11:55 a.m., from 1:00 p.m. until 5:00 p.m. and on Saturdays from 8:00 a.m. to 11:55 a.m. Please use this number for all congregation matters.
Mail intended for the Bethel residence will continue to go to 124 Columbia Heights, Brooklyn, NY 11201. The Bethel residence telephone number will remain (212) 625-1240. Telephone calls will continue to be received at this number every day from 8:00 a.m. until 9:00 p.m.