Special Meeting - New Work Announced     Sep 25, 2001

 

It is reported that a special meeting has been held of all the District Overseers in the USA and the New York City Circuit Overseers at which it was announced that the field ministry would now be changed until further notice, effective immediately.

 

For the time being no literature is to be offered or the suggested offer.

 

The publishers are to advise each householder that due to recent events we are not engaging in our regular work, we are offering comfort where needed from the Bible to help cope with the tragedy. We are to read Isaiah 61:1, 2; 1 Peter 5:7; and Phil. 4:6,7.

The brochure 'When Someone You Love Dies' is NOT to be used as everyone who is missing and unaccounted is not referred to as dead, even the brothers who are still missing now.  The Society is at this moment reprinting the 'Terrorism' Awake! magazine, which they hope to have to the congregations this week, and each publisher is to put that magazine into everyone's hands that they speak to.  In the interim, if there are still copies of that magazine that should be used, or the "Post Traumatic Stress" one, or the "Youth and Depression" one.  If none of these are available then the publishers should use the tract "Comfort for the Depressed" which all congregations have.

 

The Society is providing written information on all this as soon as possible and hopes to have the entire United States up and running with this new field ministry as soon as feasibly possible.

 

On Return visits with people that publishers have been calling on a long time, get them to talk, encourage them, and then ask "Is now the time to start that Bible study we have talked about in the past."