On the huh

Not sure about the number of videos, but the number of written articles has decreased. In 2025 there wasn't been a single Young People Ask, Help for the Family, Bible Verses Explained, Was it Designed or From Our Archives article published. I think they have been discontinued, some of which in favour of videos (like Reasons for your Faith, For a Happy Marriage). New Bible Changes Lives stories, Was it Designed and Imitate their Faith now seem to be videos only. Some videos are included as part of Monthly broadcast, and then later posted as a separate video, which may make it appear like there are less videos published.

Why do they edit it? This is more like part 2 of the AM.

We have gone from a 3 to 4 hour journey to the convention last year, to a journey of only 45 minutes this year. That means for most brothers no hotel stays this year, just travelling to and back again each day.

Some may have chosen to avoid the AM topic to avoid spoilers and wait for the broadcast, so the AM will be fresh for them. Also watching it for the first time, or re-watching it if you saw it live you may pick up on points that were missed before. So this topic can be like discussing it with fresh eyes.

Before you abandon Windows, just note what the website says about it NWS Mobile is a mobile version of New World Scheduler and contains many features found in NWS Desktop. It does not contain all the features of the Desktop version (at least not for now) So make sure the features you need and use are in the Mobile version. I couldn't find on the website what features are not included with the Mobile version. My guess is that admins will still need to use the Desktop version.

Ep1 of the Good News is on the home page of jw.org at the moment. Make good use of it in the ministry this week. The preview trailer is still available as well. You can show that on the door and encourage them to watch the full episode. And Ep2 and 3 will be openly available from January.

This line under subheading Membership needs updating. However, should you become “no longer one of Jehovah’s Witnesses” via disassociation or disfellowshipping, to something like However, should you be removed as one Jehovah's Witnesses or disassociate yourself ...

I'm going to guess that it will be next week, the 26th

One issue I've noticed (at least on Windows), is scrolling through the contents of a publication. If there is lots of chapters or articles, it goes very slow - even hangs for while. Example the More Topics or YPA article series.

We currently use Zoom and JW Conf. We have a few publishers who use JW Conf and watch via Roku, and we have one who still use the phone to listen. Our setup uses OBS with the virtual camera. OBS streams to JW Conf and send the video feed to Zoom. It also sends a feed to the aux room monitor. That way we can change between the camera video and media video, or do other things like splitscreen the two (good for talks) with one simple click. (and no messing with share screen). It was my understanding the JW Conf interactive is backward compatible and streams video and phone link as well. I could be wrong as we don't use it. Would like to switch over to it. Zoom has too many features we just don't need or would use at the meetings. JW Conf was built with our meetings in mind, and has a Zoom-like interface to make the switch easier. If not, using OBS is a easy solution to use both.

With the last update they changed the Meeting tab. Not a fan of the new one, like the old way better. Then the More Songs button disappeared for a while until it was brought back. So weary of what new "features" will bring (or take away).

I'm using the tract about Jesus advice. Starting by commenting about how it will soon be Christmas, or that people are preparing for it. Then move the conversation to Jesus, and ask the question, Does Jesus advice works today?

They here ! Each bundle appears to have 400 tracts. The paper feels the same as invitations we had this year, high quality, thicker paper. Not card like the contact cards.

Yes we are getting all 9 as well. 800 of each, that works out about 10 for each publisher.

After the fall of Babylon does make sense, then sudden destruction!