Announcements

◼July and August: The Bible​—What Is Its Message?​—On DVD, Would You Like to Know the Truth?​—On DVD, or depending on circumstances, offer When Someone You Love Dies—​On DVD or You Can Be God’s Friend!​—On DVD. When making return visits, introduce What Does the Bible Really Teach?​—On DVD or if more appropriate to the person’s needs, offer Listen to God and Live Forever—​On DVD, and try to start a Bible study. September and October: New World Translation of the Christian Greek Scriptures​—On DVD. Feature one of the Bible books on DVD. If interest is shown on the return visit, additional Bible books or the complete set may be offered. When making return visits, introduce What Does the Bible Really Teach?​—On DVD or if more appropriate to the person’s needs, Listen to God and Live Forever—​On DVD, and try to start a Bible study.

◼ Sing to Jehovah​—Vocal Renditions, Disc 5, is being released for download from the jw.org Web site on August 1. It will be posted first in English, with various other languages being posted sometime thereafter. Audio CDs may be requested through your congregation. Since the cost to download the files from our Web site is considerably less than that of producing and shipping physical discs, those who are able to download the files are encouraged to do so. Discs 1-4 have already been released.

◼ Since September has five full weekends, it would be an excellent month to auxiliary pioneer.

◼ Field Service Highlights: We rejoice to report two new all-time peaks during the month of February. Bermuda reported a peak of 520 total publishers and the Turks and Caicos Islands reported a peak of 304 total publishers. In addition, when compared to the same month last year the Bahamas had an increase of 8.1 percent in return visits and the United States had an increase of 5.4 percent in return visits. Clearly, with the guidance of Jehovah’s spirit the good news continues to spread.​—Acts 1:8.