Announcements
◼ Literature offer for January: What Does the Bible Really Teach?—On DVD. February: The Secret of Family Happiness—On DVD. March: What Does the Bible Really Teach?—On DVD. April: New World Translation of the Christian Greek Scriptures—On DVD. Feature Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians—On DVD. If interest is shown on the return visit, additional Bible books may be offered.
◼ Starting in February, the new public talk for the circuit overseers will be “How Does the Truth Affect Your Life?”
◼ The branch facilities in Brooklyn, Patterson, and Wallkill, New York, will be closed for spring cleaning on Friday, May 13, 2011. There will be no arrangements for tours or for congregations to pick up literature on this day.
◼ Field Service Highlights: How happy we are to report a new all-time peak of 1,178,349 Kingdom publishers for the United States in the month of August! This is an increase of 24,074 over the previous peak set in August 2009. The Turks and Caicos Islands also reached a new all-time peak of 273 Kingdom publishers, an increase of 17 over their previous peak set in July 2010. Additionally, Bermuda saw fine progress in August with a 16.6 percent increase in return visits and a 3.1 percent increase in Bible studies when compared to the same month last year. Indeed, the fields are “white for harvesting”!—John 4:35.