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▪ Literature offer for September: Is There a Creator Who Cares About You? As an alternative offer, you may feature Life​—How Did It Get Here? By Evolution or by Creation? October: The Watchtower and Awake! magazines. Where interest is shown, offer the Require brochure, making a special effort to start Bible studies. November: Learn From the Great Teacher. If individuals say they have no children, offer the Require brochure. When using the brochure, concentrate on starting home Bible studies. December: The Greatest Man Who Ever Lived. As an alternative offer, you may use My Book of Bible Stories, The Bible​—God’s Word or Man’s?, or You Can Live Forever in Paradise on Earth.

▪ The video program No Blood​—Medicine Meets the Challenge will be considered at a Service Meeting in December. It is now available on DVD as part of Transfusion Alternatives​—Documentary Series. This DVD contains the following programs: Transfusion-Alternative Strategies​—Simple, Safe, Effective; Transfusion-Alternative Health Care—​Meeting Patient Needs and Rights; and No Blood​—Medicine Meets the Challenge. The DVD presents the English videos with additional sound tracks in French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian, and Spanish. The No Blood videocassette is available in Bulgarian, Chinese (Cantonese), Dutch, English, French, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, and Spanish. If needed, copies of the DVD and videocassette should be requested through the congregation as soon as possible.

▪ The special public talk for the 2005 Memorial season will be given on Sunday, April 10. The subject of the talk will be announced later. Those congregations having the visit of the circuit overseer or an assembly that weekend will have the special talk the following week. No congregation should have the special talk before Sunday, April 10, 2005.

▪ The Annual Congregation Property Documents Review Work Sheet (T-33-E) is to be completed each September by the secretary of the congregation holding title to Kingdom Hall property. Each congregation sharing use of the property should promptly receive a copy of the completed work sheet. If corrective actions are needed, the elders should care for these to protect the interests of the congregation. When the circuit overseer visits the congregation, he will review the congregation property documents and the Safety Inspection Work Sheet (T-34-E).

▪ 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 ones who should be visited.

▪ Congregations should release the latest issues of The Watchtower and Awake! as soon as they are received. This will allow publishers to become familiar with the contents before offering the magazines in field service.

▪ Since October will have five full weekends, it would be an excellent month to auxiliary pioneer.