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I live in South Wales not too far from the fire that has been burning for several weeks. I heard some people have been arrested for starting one. Another started yesterday on another mountain nearer Pontypool. Sad to see this happening. Weird to have such a strong smell of smoke for days at a time in the summer. Locally we have experienced some really bad floods in the last couple of years and now fires. Nevertheless, we are fortunate that neither is to the extreme. It's heart breaking to see videos in other far flung places to see flames and floods engulfing homes knowing there has been loss of life. It is devastation to Jehovah's creation all around but a wildfire in South Wales is nothing compared to the fires that have raged in places like California, for example. Awful knowing they are continuing in France, Spain and Greece at scale.

Without saying you have to get an A-2 ... They are almost sounding that way. It is already being rolled out by the various LDCs in the US. Talk with your LDC contact person. They should have already scheduled training for the KHOC people. PS It is a great way for the branch to see what type of work is being done at various halls and if the maintenance is being done. This is especially important now that the branch pays the bill.

Tuesday, August 11 Since Christ suffered in the flesh, you too arm yourselves with the same mental disposition.—1 Pet. 4:1. “You must love Jehovah your God with your whole heart and with your whole soul and with your whole strength and with your whole mind.” (Luke 10:27) Jesus acknowledged this as the most important command in the Mosaic Law. Notice that our love for Jehovah involves our heart, which includes our desires, feelings, and emotions. It also involves our whole-souled devotion and our strength—including our energy. However, loving Jehovah also involves our mind, which includes the way we think about matters. Of course, we can never fully understand all of Jehovah’s thinking. But we can better understand God’s thinking by studying “the mind of Christ” because Jesus perfectly reflects the thinking of his Father.—1 Cor. 2:16. w25.03 8 ¶1

and another mention here https://www.patheos.com/blogs/johnbeckett/2026/08/toward-a-sense-of-peace-and-well-being.html

The local news reported over 1000 dead and then revised it to 111...

Lion Nebula roars to life for Webb 10 August 2026 20am; ID: 2026-127 The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope previously viewed this planetary nebula in 2000, imaging the lion face-shaped target in visible light and revealing features such as the “mane” of hazy, comet-shaped objects. Now Webb has captured a clearer, more detailed view of the Lion Nebula due to its high-resolution imaging. At first glance the nebula’s overall structure in Webb’s infrared images, both with the NIRCam (Near Infrared Camera) and MIRI (Mid Infrared Instrument), may look quite similar to Hubble's earlier visible-light view. However, Webb's infrared vision highlights features like compact clumps of dust and haze of ionised gas. It’s taken several thousand years for this collection of gas and dust to reach its current shape, and the nebula’s components continue to be altered. Article link: https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/lion-nebula-roars-to-life-with-nasas-webb/ Pic Description: NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope imaged the planetary nebula NGC 2392, the Lion Nebula, using the observatory’s NIRCam and MIRI instruments. The central star’s remains are responsible for the nebula’s structure, including a lion face-shaped bubble of ionized gas and dust “mane.” Credits: Image: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI; Image Processing: Alyssa Pa gan (STScI)

Does anyone know how to make the JWL app have a larger appearance on the MacBook? I just think everything looks small and I want to make it slightly bigger! Kinda like how big my ipad font sizing looks.

Lots of structural damage.🙈😢

It looks like Custom Buttons are not locked. I tried it both entering it in NWP as a publisher and from NWS as the Territory Servant, they are still able to be changed... it does ask, "are you sure?" but.... You can put in individual Address Notes in NWS and those are only able to be permanently changed by the Servant, but you have to click on an address to see them in NWP...

I like the sound of that, seems simple enough. We found having it as simple as possible helped the technology averse publishers be comfortable with the app. That "Not Able to Work" one I have to think about and maybe chat with my Service Overseer about🤔😅. Existing DNCs cannot be changed in the app once they are received/accepted in NWS. Custom buttons... I have to look into that. Let me try to find out and I can report back.

Agreed. That just happened to a territory I gave to a group to work. Someone marked a home as a DNC. I suspect they pushed the wrong button and now I need to figure it out. Is there a way to mark locations as DNC and Brothers Only that show up on the map and can not be changed by anyone working the territory?

Thanks. We are thinking of having just three buttons available, "Worked" "Not Worked" "Not Able to Work" or something similar. The Not Able to Work button would be for locked gates, dogs, signs, busy, anything that keeps the publisher from working the home in person and will need a letter.

They are, it's pretty good, but the only way to view it or have a Task assigned to you is to have an approved A-2 application. Without that, the Tasks are only viewable if they get sent to you by the assigned A-2 brother/sister. For local congregation maintenance assignments we use NWS to create matching job cards and the publishers can then mark them completed there and then the publisher with the A-2 and the assignment can do their part in Project Tasks. (Granted we only have one congregation in our hall now so it's simpler)

We only have one territory/complex that would be brothers only, and it is just marked in the territory notes... and I don't assign it to sisters too I guess😅 You could always use one of the custom buttons for that if you have multiple individual addresses that need brothers only I suppose. We also only use the At Home and Not at Home buttons as we found having too many options led to lots of confusion and mistakes. For new Do Not Calls, they have to put a note in the address explaining why and our territory brothers convert it, but that's because we were getting lots of new DNCs from multiple people and we were trying to figure out why... We also have one of the custom buttons called Campaign that we turn on for campaigns so the publishers can track which houses they have done in their territory both in and out of a campaign (we don't start fresh in campaigns, we have everyone just start working their existing assignments as campaign territories). No Trespassing, Vacant, Gated, those are all up to the publishers to take care of and note when they go into the territories. If they need letters written because you can't get to the front door for example, it is up to the publisher assigned to send a letter or get someone else to; we have so much letter writing territory already it would be too much work to try add those. The transition was easy, the program helps you through it. There were relatively few data issues that we had to fix manually, and this was very early on in the NWS days.

How does your congregation mark the locations that are "Brothers Only" ?

At least 20 dead following 7.4 magnitude earthquake in Colombia https://edition.cnn.com/2026/08/10/world/live-news/colombia-earthquake-san-jose-del-palmar

While I'm aghast I can also see the pluses to it. But I'm still shocked. But well maybe...uh no....hmmm...no....

This is too weird not to share. East Coast gets first human composting facility as greener end-of-life option gains ground https://share.google/I0K2pzV0tcQTJ41BK "Honey, Don't forget to put Grandma on the lawn before you go to work"

Any detail on this yet? Like a launch date, or announcement? tia

We have enabled NWS Mobile. So far OK!

I may have missed them but I don't remember seeing any example emails that support that, just the general "vibe" claim repeated. I shared mine specifically because I think it's easy to project condescension onto a message that's just being direct or efficient.

Kingdom Hall Operating Committee

Kingdom Hall Operating Committee They are only formed when there is more than one congregation meeting at the same kingdom hall.

Monday, August 10 You husbands, . . . assign them honor as to a weaker vessel, the feminine one.—1 Pet. 3:7. A recent report from the World Health Organization indicates that many husbands physically, verbally, or emotionally abuse their wife. A husband who does this might treat his wife respectfully in front of others but then mistreat her at home. What can cause some husbands to be abusive? They may have been raised by a violent father, so they think that abusive behavior is normal. Others are influenced by the culture around them, which may promote the wrong idea that “a real man” must use force to show his wife who is the boss. Other men were not taught to control their emotions, including their anger. Some men have developed a warped view of women and sex because of regularly viewing pornography. Additionally, reports indicate that the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has intensified these problems. Of course, none of these factors justify a husband’s abusive behavior. w25.01 8 ¶2-3