Announcements
◼ Literature offer for August: Any of the following 32-page brochures may be used: 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 Divine Name That Will Endure Forever, The Government That Will Bring Paradise, What Happens to Us When We Die?, What Is the Purpose of Life—How Can You Find It?, and When Someone You Love Dies. The brochures A Book for All People, 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 where appropriate. September: Life—How Did It Get Here? By Evolution or by Creation? Before requesting additional supplies from Brooklyn, please check if nearby congregations have a surplus on hand. October: The Watchtower and Awake! magazines. Where interest is shown, offer the Require brochure, making a special effort to start Bible studies. November: What Does God Require of Us? or Knowledge That Leads to Everlasting Life. If people already have these, an older publication may be offered. You may check if nearby congregations have a surplus of older publications on hand if you do not have any in stock.
◼ Congregations should begin requesting the 2003 Calendar of Jehovah’s Witnesses, Examining the Scriptures Daily—2003, and 2003 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses with their next literature request. All of these publications will be available in Albanian, Arabic, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian (Cyrillic), Slovak, Spanish, and Swedish. In addition, the 2003 Calendar of Jehovah’s Witnesses may be requested in Afrikaans, Armenian, Bulgarian, Danish, Dutch, East Armenian, Hebrew, Hindi, Thai, Turkish, and Ukrainian. Examining the Scriptures Daily—2003 may also be requested in Amharic, Armenian, Bengali, Bulgarian, Cambodian, Cebuano, Chinese (Simplified), Danish, Dutch, East Armenian, Ewe, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Iloko, Indonesian, Macedonian, Malayalam, Papiamento (Curaçao), Persian, Punjabi (Gurmukhi), Samoan, Solomon Islands Pidgin, Swahili, Tagalog, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkish, Twi, Ukrainian, Urdu, and Vietnamese. The 2003 Yearbook of Jehovah’s Witnesses may also be requested in Cebuano, Dutch, Iloko, Indonesian, and Tagalog.
◼ The presiding overseer or someone designated by him should audit the congregation’s accounts on September 1 or as soon as possible thereafter. When this has been done, make an announcement to the congregation after the next accounts report is read.
◼ The annual inventory of all literature and magazines on hand should be taken on or as close as possible to August 31, 2002. This inventory is similar to the actual count taken monthly by the literature coordinator, and the totals should be entered on the Literature Inventory form (S-18). The total number of magazines on hand can be obtained from the magazine servants in each congregation in the literature group. Each coordinating congregation will receive three Literature Inventory forms (S-18). Please mail the original to the branch office no later than September 6. Keep a copy for your files. The third copy may be used as a work sheet. The secretary of the coordinating congregation should supervise the inventory. He and the presiding overseer of the coordinating congregation will sign the form.
◼ On August 30 and 31, 2002, an inventory will be taken of all literature on hand at Brooklyn Bethel. Because of this, no congregation literature requests will be processed for pickup during those days.