Announcements

◼ Literature to be used during September: You Can Live Forever in Paradise on Earth. October: Copies of The Watchtower and Awake! will be featured. Subscriptions may be offered on return visits. November: New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures with the book The Bible​—God’s Word or Man’s? December: The Greatest Man Who Ever Lived. NOTE: Congregations that have not yet requested the above-mentioned campaign items should do so on their next monthly Literature Request Form (S(d)-14). Please request needed extra magazines for October distribution.

◼ The presiding overseer or someone designated by him should audit the congregation’s accounts on September 1 or as soon as possible thereafter. Make an announcement to the congregation when this has been done.

◼ Publishers planning to serve as auxiliary pioneers in October should turn in their application early. This will allow the elders to make necessary arrangements for literature and territory.

◼ The elders are reminded to follow through on instructions given on pages 21-3 of the April 15, 1991, Watchtower, regarding any disfellowshipped or disassociated persons who may be inclined toward becoming reinstated.

◼ As of January 1, 1994, a monthly edition of The Watchtower in Persian has been available. Distributors’ copies and personal subscriptions may be requested by congregations.

◼A monthly edition of The Watchtower in the Cambodian language is being published as of September 1, 1994. Distributors’ copies and personal subscriptions may be requested by congregations.

◼ As of the July 8, 1994, issue, the Chinese Awake! magazine has become semimonthly and simultaneous with the English.

◼ The Watchtower and Awake! in Chinese (Simplified) are now being made available to all countries. The Watchtower is being printed in full color. The magazines are semimonthly and will be simultaneous with the English. Distributors’ copies and personal subscriptions may be requested by congregations.

◼ It is important that groups of 30 or more persons planning to visit the Society’s facilities first correspond by mail with the Central Tour Desk at 124 Columbia Heights, Brooklyn, NY 11201-1698. This includes those groups that will be visiting Brooklyn Bethel, Watchtower Farms, the Watchtower Educational Center project site in Patterson, and the Jersey City Assembly Hall. Please provide information on the number coming and the dates and times for each location. The Society will provide a description of the tours that are available as well as a map giving directions to each location. LODGING INFORMATION HAS BEEN SENT TO THE CONGREGATION ELDERS AND MAY BE OBTAINED FROM THE CONGREGATION SECRETARY.

◼ Beginning September 1, 1994, Brooklyn Bethel will discontinue tours in the 124 Columbia Heights Home complex. Certain features of the Home tour will now be included in the 360 Furman Street and the 117 Adams Street tours. Bus groups that have already sent their itinerary to the Central Tour Desk including a request for the Home tour after September 1 may need to submit a revision.

◼ As of July 1994, a monthly edition of The Watchtower in the Georgian language has been available by mail.

◼ A new Watchtower Publications List has been prepared and four copies are being sent to each congregation. They should be distributed to the secretary and to the brothers caring for literature, magazines, and accounts.

◼ New Publications Available:

Arabic: Apply Yourself to Reading and Writing. Bengali: You Can Live Forever in Paradise on Earth (Small size). Cambodian: You Can Live Forever in Paradise on Earth (Large size). Chinese: When Someone You Love Dies. Chinese (Simplified): Life​—How Did It Get Here? By Evolution or by Creation? (Small size); Questions Young People Ask​—Answers That Work. Czech: Jehovah’s Witnesses​—Proclaimers of God’s Kingdom; Reasoning From the Scriptures; What Is the Purpose of Life​—How Can You Find It? Dutch: Why Should We Worship God in Love and Truth? (for Hindus). English: Watch Tower Publications Index 1991-1993; When Someone You Love Dies. French: When Someone You Love Dies. Hebrew: Will There Ever Be a World Without War? (for Jews); You Can Live Forever in Paradise on Earth (Small size). Hindi: Bible Topics for Discussion. Hungarian: Organized to Accomplish Our Ministry. Italian: When Someone You Love Dies. Laotian: You Can Live Forever in Paradise on Earth (Large size). Latvian: Will This World Survive? (Tract No. 19); Comfort for the Depressed (Tract No. 20); Who Really Rules the World? (Tract No. 22). Lithuanian: Will This World Survive? (Tract No. 19); Comfort for the Depressed (Tract No. 20). Punjabi: Will This World Survive? (Tract No. 19); Comfort for the Depressed (Tract No. 20); Enjoy Family Life (Tract No. 21); Who Really Rules the World? (Tract No. 22). Russian: How to Start and Continue Bible Studies; The Divine Name That Will Endure Forever; The Government That Will Bring Paradise; The Time for True Submission to God (for Muslims); Will There Ever Be a World Without War? (for Jews). Slovak: What Is the Purpose of Life​—How Can You Find It? Slovenian: Jehovah’s Witnesses and the Question of Blood; Happiness​—How to Find It. Spanish: When Someone You Love Dies. Vietnamese: When Someone You Love Dies.

◼ New Audiocassettes Available:

English: The Greatest Man Who Ever Lived (set of eight tapes in an album). Finnish: Doing God’s Will With Zeal (Drama; single audiocassette). Spanish: Doing God’s Will With Zeal (Drama; single audiocassette).

◼ New Videocassettes Available:

French: The Bible​—Accurate History, Reliable Prophecy.