Announcements
◼ Literature offer for February: The Secret of Family Happiness. March: Knowledge That Leads to Everlasting Life. A special effort will be made to start home Bible studies. April and May: Individual copies of The Watchtower and Awake! Have Require brochure available for interested people, and endeavor to start home Bible studies.
◼ Starting the week of March 22, 1999, the book The Greatest Man Who Ever Lived will be considered at the Congregation Book Study. This issue of Our Kingdom Ministry contains the complete study schedule. You may photocopy it and insert it in your personal copy of the book for handy reference. Direction on how the introduction of the book will be considered is explained in paragraph 5 of “Studying The Greatest Man Who Ever Lived” on page 1 of the September 1992 Our Kingdom Ministry.
◼ The secretary and the service overseer should review the activity of all regular pioneers. If any are having difficulty meeting the hour requirement, the elders should arrange for assistance to be given. For suggestions, review Society’s annual S-201 letters dated October 1. See also paragraphs 12-20 of the August 1986 Our Kingdom Ministry insert.
◼ On Saturday, May 15, 1999, the Society’s facilities in Brooklyn, Patterson, and Wallkill, New York, will be closed for spring cleaning. There will be no arrangements for tours or for congregations to pick up literature on that day.
◼ Groups of publishers who have made arrangements to share in working unassigned territory in coming months should plan to offer the Require brochure or the Knowledge book in their field service.
◼ New Publications Available:
A Book for All People—Slovak
How to Find the Road to Paradise (for Muslims)—Russian
Spirits of the Dead—Can They Help You or Harm You? Do They Really Exist?—East Armenian
Watch Tower Publications Index 1996—French
When Someone You Love Dies—East Armenian
◼ Beginning with the January-March 1999 issue, Awake! will be published in Solomon Islands Pidgin as a quarterly edition.
◼ Beginning with the January 1, 1999, issue, The Watchtower will be available in Umbundu as a monthly edition.
◼ Beginning with the January 8, 1999, issue, Awake! will be available in Latvian as a semimonthly edition.
◼ Beginning with the January 15, 1999, issue, The Watchtower will be available in Urdu as a semimonthly edition.
◼ New Audiocassettes Available:
Doing What Is Right in Jehovah’s Eyes (Drama, single cassette)—Portuguese