Announcements
◼ Literature offer for August: Any of the following 32-page brochures: Does God Really Care About Us?, Enjoy Life on Earth Forever!, “Look! I Am Making All Things New,” Should You Believe in the Trinity?, The Government That Will Bring Paradise, What Is the Purpose of Life—How Can You Find It?, and When Someone You Love Dies. Where appropriate, brochures such as Our Problems—Who Will Help Us Solve Them?, Spirits of the Dead—Can They Help You or Harm You? Do They Really Exist?, and Will There Ever Be a World Without War? may be offered. September: Life—How Did It Get Here? By Evolution or by Creation? Congregations having You Can Live Forever in Paradise on Earth or Making Your Family Life Happy in stock may offer these books. October: Individual copies of both The Watchtower and Awake! Where interest is found on return visits, subscriptions may be offered. November: Knowledge That Leads to Everlasting Life. A special effort will be made to follow up on all placements, with a view to starting home Bible studies.
◼ An adequate supply of forms for use during the 1997 service year is being sent to each congregation. Please use these forms with good discretion. They should be used only for their intended purpose.
◼ Each congregation will receive three Literature Inventory forms (S(d)-18). The congregation secretary should meet with the literature servant early in August and set a date for taking inventory of the congregation’s stock of literature at the end of the month. An actual count must be made of all literature in stock, and the totals are to be entered on the Literature Inventory form. The total number of magazines on hand can be obtained from the magazine servant. Please mail the original to the Society no later than September 6. Keep a carbon copy for your files. The third copy may be used as a work sheet. The inventory should be supervised by the secretary, and the completed form should be checked by the presiding overseer. The secretary and the presiding overseer will sign the form.
◼ Congregations should begin requesting the 1997 Calendar of Jehovah’s Witnesses with their September literature request. The calendars will be available in Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, and Ukrainian.
◼ From August 28, 1996, to August 31, 1996, the Society will be taking an inventory of all literature on hand in Brooklyn. Because of this inventory, no congregation literature requests will be processed for shipment or for pickup during those days.
◼ New Publications Available:
Does Fate Rule Our Lives? Or Does God Hold Us Responsible? (Tract No. 71)—Macedonian
In Search of a Father (for Buddhists)—Vietnamese
Knowledge That Leads to Everlasting Life—Hindi, Tamil, Tongan
Should You Believe in the Trinity?—Bulgarian
Sing Praises to Jehovah (Small size)—Turkish
The Government That Will Bring Paradise—Czech
Watch Tower Publications Index 1991-1994—German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, Swedish
Watch Tower Publications Index 1986-1990—Serbian
Will Suffering Ever End? (Tract No. 75)—Chinese
◼ New Compact Discs Available:
Watchtower Library—1995 Edition—English
◼ New Videocassettes Available:
Jehovah’s Witnesses—The Organization Behind the Name—Russian