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Claude found some limited documentation regarding the process: NW Scheduler | NW Publisher app - Me View Scroll down to "Process Received Auxiliary Pioneer Applications" Over time, I have seen Claude and ChatGPT gain extensive knowledge of NWS. They many times can give answers even narrowing it down to a specific version of the software. Like everything else I do, I prefer Claude over all the othe AI platforms for most things. Me: New World Scheduler has added the ability for publishers to submit an Auxiliary Pioneer application. Is there any help/support documents from NWS yet that explains how this will be processed by the Congregation Service Committee? How will they approve an application in NWS? Here is Claude's response: What's confirmed in NWS help docs The core principle (unchanged from before, now digitized): The process is: A publisher submits an Auxiliary Pioneer Application through the NW Publisher app (under Me), rather than filling out a paper S-205b form. This request comes into NW Scheduler, where the Service Committee reviews it and decides to approve or deny it — same as the traditional paper-based process (referencing Organized p. 109). If approved, the Secretary is the one who acts on it in NWS — he ticks "AP" on that publisher's Field Service Report for the relevant month(s). This is what makes the Congregation Field Service Report (S-1) correctly reflect them as an Auxiliary Pioneer. If a publisher is set up as a Continuous Auxiliary Pioneer in Person Spiritual Information, NWS will auto-tick AP for future months without a fresh application each time. Where this lives in NWS The application itself is submitted from NW Publisher app → Me → Auxiliary Pioneer Application. Processing/approval isn't a separate "inbox" workflow like Territory or Hospitality Requests. The Service Committee makes its decision outside the software (in their normal meeting/discussion), and then the Secretary manually reflects that decision by ticking AP on the Publisher Record for that month, same as before the app feature existed. I could not find a page laying out a dedicated step-by-step "here's exactly how the Service Committee logs their approval/denial decision inside NWS" — the current docs mainly confirm that it routes through the Service Committee and what the Secretary does once approved, not a granular in-app approval workflow (e.g., no visible "Approve/Deny" button described yet, unlike Territory or Hospitality Requests).

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Monday, August 3 There is going to be a resurrection of both the righteous and the unrighteous.—Acts 24:15. Ever since Adam and Eve joined Satan and rebelled against Jehovah God, billions of humans have died. What lies ahead for all those people? A limited number, 144,000 in all, of Christ’s faithful followers will receive a resurrection to immortal life in heaven. (Rev. 14:1) And a vast number of faithful men and women who loved Jehovah will be part of the “resurrection of . . . the righteous,” and they will live forever on earth if they remain righteous during Christ’s Millennial Reign and during the final test. (Dan. 12:13; Heb. 12:1) Also during the Millennium, “the unrighteous”—including those who never served Jehovah or who even “practiced vile things”—will be given an opportunity to change their ways and become faithful. (John 5:29; Luke 23:42, 43) However, some humans were so wicked that he has decided that there will be no resurrection for them at all.—Luke 12:4, 5. w24.05 2 ¶3; 5 ¶15; 6 ¶17

The approval can't / shouldn't be done in some cases without dialogue. You have ex pioneers who want to Aux Pioneer during a campaign. You have members of the servant body who want to Aux Pioneer those are all just rubber stamped applications like pushing the paper slip from one SC member to the next to initial it. But then you have applicants that require dialogue. Putting my coders hat on, if a servant wants to Aux pioneer the code could just look for the 3 SC members tasks and check are they completed. But it gets complicated when it is a first time or when someone who has applied in the past but missed the quota. The SC members would have to evaluate and answer the applications ability to fulfill this statement that he signed: "I have made plans that would enable me to meet the hour requirement" Main advantage I see is the chairman doesn't have to count and read Aux Pioneer slips and the secretary has the publishers marked as Aux Pioneers

All the convention dates, version 0.3 (thanks @ijsvogel) June 2026 Douala, Cameroon — June 19–21 Bucharest, Romania — June 19–21 Curitiba, Brazil — June 26–28 July 2026 St. John’s, Canada — July 3–5 Warsaw, Poland — July 3–5 Stockholm, Sweden — July 3–5 Kaohsiung, Taiwan — July 3–5 Porto, Portugal — July 10–12 Panama City, Panama — July 10–12 Calgary, Canada — July 31 – August 2 August 2026 Vilnius, Lithuania — August 7–9 Quito, Ecuador — August 7–9 Utrecht, Netherlands — August 14-16 Hamburg, Germany — August 14–16 Milwaukee, USA — August 28–30 Johannesburg, South Africa — August 28–30 November 2026 Manila, Philippines — November 6–8 San Diego, USA — November 27–29 December 2026 Bangkok, Thailand — December 11–13

How would they complete the task? Simply checking the box? In the past I'm pretty sure that just tells NWS that the task has been completed or attended to. But in the case of AP applications, completing that specific task could result in either the application being approved or not approved. How would NWS know which one was the result? That is my query. I realize that you may not have the answer @Tortuga, I'm just putting it out there for everyone.

If my understanding based on comments here is correct, it seems it will be a pretty straightforward process. A publisher uses NWP to submit an application, each of the SC receives a Task in NWS, assuming they are using the latest update and check NWS frequently. Once they complete the NWS Task, the applicants Publisher Record in NWS is automatically updated to indicate the applicant is an AP for the month selected. That information can be printed in the NWS Reports and given to the MWM chairman. Can anyone confirm that is the process?

I hope the NWS team explains how this works exactly. Still not seeing any online documentation for this.

I guess I didn't explain myself well. Its my understanding from comments made here that each of the SC receives a Task in NWS, after each of them complete the Task, NWS automatically marks the AP box in the Publisher Record. I personally haven't seen any of that happen yet, it's based on what others have said here.

I believe that is a rolling update and if you check it tomorrow it most like will have moved to the next day for an expiry.

Our convention is August 14 -16 ☺️

This is new in #1463: it seems the currently installed version of NWS will expire after 2 months necessitating an update to the latest version. I like the direction, but wish the expiry were a little shorter, like maybe a month or even less, so the brothers would be obligated to update more frequently. We are trying the "Maintenance Day" Sunday, but still 3 or 4 brothers drag their feet, or just forget to update.

Thanks for the reply. I think I didn't express my question clearly. I meant is there a NEW way for the SC to approve the application through NWS; do they have to do something in the app to approve it? Or do they approve it the same way as always, manually, and the secretary then manually checks the AP box in NWS for the publisher as always?

I am assuming that after the SC approves the application, NWS changes the Publisher Record to indicate the publisher is an AP for that month. Then the NWS Pio Report could be given to the MWM chairman to announce who is AP. I hope that is what it does 😁

Obviously other than discussing whether or not they approve the application, is there a way for the service committee to indicate their approval through NWS, and that would automatically set that publisher as an auxiliary pioneer in the app for the specified month(s)? I see the check box under the task, but in my past experience that check box basically just acknowledges the task, or indicates that the task has been attended to. Is there something I'm missing?

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i am 100% confident that the movie was gonna be good. Its just all the stupid racial controversy that was around it at the time that just made me not even wanna watch it. It killed the hype and the excitent for me. Watching friends and family just being idiots on social media 'IF YOURE WHITE DONT WATCH THIS. THIS MOVIE ISNT FOR YALL!!' 'YALL MAD THAT WE GOT A MOVIE NOW!' thats the more tame stuff. I havent seen thattype of aggression since November 2008....

Black Panther was every kind of awesome. It is - hands down - the best, well-acted super hero movie I have ever seen... and I've seen just about every one of them.

Yep, it only shows for the service committee. That's why I didn't see it.

The wife and I just watched the first episode. Very good, intriguing. Thanks for the recommendation. It's so hard to find appropriate entertainment today.

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Calgary convention got covered by Canada’s largest private news network. Short video here: https://www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/video/2026/08/01/23000-attend-jehovahs-witness-convention-in-calgary/

i REALLY wanted to watch Black Panther when it came out, but with all the dumb racial bs involved with it from people, i decides against it. i feel it took the fun out of it. iwanted to watch it because iwas interested not because iwas blackand wanted to watch ''the first black super hero move' when Steel, Blade, Spawn and others WERE RIGHT THERE. If that is what woke is to you? i cansee why you would find this woke. personally woke for me is trying to shove random stuff somewhere where its not needed.

Visual of smoke from Wildfires for the month of July coming from North America and Europe. https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a005600/a005666/SmokeIntensity_EuropeanWildfires_073026_1920x1080.mp4