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We are glad to inform you that now over 99 percent of our worldwide Bethel family is vaccinated. Are you? Many of our brothers and sisters have had good results from being vaccinated.
 

Would Jehovah allow the Governing Body, the helpers, missionaries, a huge percentage of the worldwide Bethel family, and other full-time servants to engage in practices or receive a COVID-19 vaccine that would be harmful? Surely Jehovah wants the brothers at world headquarters to continue providing spiritual food. He wants to make sure that the work continues at our branch offices and in the field. To do that, we have to be “in the land of the living.”

The Governing Body of Jehovah’s Witnesses announced that they have invited selected branches to participate in a pilot program to resume some in-person congregation meetings. The branches participating will select Kingdom Halls in areas where vaccination rates are high and infection rates are low.

The Governing Body feels it's good and loving to share more statistics regarding vaccine safety, which "have been collected by our brothers, so we can trust these figures." PLUS, the 2022 Year Text is announced.

JWTalk.net was registered on September 4th, 2006, which was 15 years ago this month. Take a moment to share what the JWTalk Community has done for you!

"It has been amazing to see the Kingdom work move ahead, even during this pandemic. Various branches are reporting all-time peaks in the number of publishers, pioneers, meeting attendance, and
Bible studies. Many have reported peaks in the Memorial attendance"

"We’re doing what we can to help Bethelites and other special full-time servants get vaccinated if they want to be. The Bethel family is delighted that government regulations allowed those who are vaccinated to assemble again."

Are you raising children? Although all of us have had to stay vigilant to protect ourselves and others, you dear parents have carried a particularly heavy load. We can only imagine the deep concern you’ve had for your young children and teens during the pandemic.

https://www.jw.org/en/library/videos/#en/mediaitems/StudioNewsReports/docid-702021076_1_VIDEO

Jehovah's Witnesses are not against vaccination. Already, in cooperation with public health officials, many in our Bethel families have chosen to be vaccinated.

" For practical advice on where your efforts and abilities are most needed, speak to your circuit overseer or write to your local branch office. Jehovah’s organization is on the move, and it will not be stopped by the pandemic or anything else!" - Brother Morris

"I’m happy to talk to you about how things are going at Bethel and how the worldwide Bethel family is coping with the pandemic. No doubt you’ll be encouraged to hear what helps them to remain joyful in their service." - Brother Cook

Now online.
 
English: https://www.jw.org/download/?docid=702021008&issue=&langwritten=E
American Sign Language: https://www.jw.org/download/?docid=702021008&issue=&langwritten=asl
español:https://www.jw.org/download/?docid=702021008&issue=&langwritten=S
 

Watch and discuss the 6th encouraging Governing Body Update video!

This global pandemic has thrown the world into a state of uncertainty, with so many unknowns. But there’s one thing that we do know: Through it all, Jehovah has really been taking care of us.

https://www.jw.org/en/library/videos/#en/mediaitems/StudioNewsReports/docid-702020307_1_VIDEO

English:
https://download-a.akamaihd.net/files/content_assets/39/702020283_E_cnt_1_r720P.mp4
https://download-a.akamaihd.net/files/content_assets/7f/702020283_E_cnt_1_r480P.mp4
https://download-a.akamaihd.net/files/content_assets/45/702020283_E_cnt_1_r360P.mp4
https://download-a.akamaihd.net/files/content_assets/b2/702020283_E_cnt_1_r240P.mp4
https://download-a.akamaihd.net/files/content_assets/e0/702020283_E_cnt_1_r144P.3gp

With all the talk about inhouse congregation video broadcasting, I would like to research:
1. what 'just' works (min cost)
2. Approx list of items ( etc)
3. $ Cost of above $US
4. what works really well
5. Items for above (4)
6. $ Cost of topshelf system (4)
 
I also would like step by step connection and setup guide.
 
Guide to include setup options ie
Camera height
Lighting adjustments
 
How to connect extra users
How do users give assignments
 
TIA for your input. Our cong resolved to get this working last night, now we just got to make it happen.
 
 
 
Just Older
 
 

JWTalk is an internet forum, commonly called a discussion board. We're an online discussion site where people can hold conversations in the form of posted messages. Discussion boards differ from chat rooms in that messages are often longer than one line of text, and are permanently archived and available for reading.
 
A discussion board like JWTalk has a tree-like structure of forums and sub-forums that are designed to categorize various topics of discussion. Simply stated, a topic is a single conversation also referred to as a thread, and a forum is a folder or container that contains several topics that fall within a category. Each new discussion started is called a topic/thread and can be replied to by as many people as so wish. Participant have to register with JWTalk and subsequently log in to post messages. However, on most of our forums, users do not have to log in to read existing messages. Most of our forums are publicly visible, while just a few of them are members only.
 
The popularity of Social Media has impacted discussion boards in that new members to internet forums often don't think about how the various forums in the community act as categorizations for discussion topics. So in this post and the ones that follow, we hope to give some helpful explanation as to how we categorize threads here at JWTalk, so that when you decide to start a new topic for discussion, you will have a better understanding as to which forum you should post your topic.
 
Please continue reading to get a better idea of which topics belong in which forums...

Out of curiosity, if you view JWTalk in a web browser like most people, how do you prefer to navigate to content when you arrive here? I know many people go straight to their notifications, but these poll options are for when you have no notifications or have already read them. How do you then go about checking on new topics and content on JWTalk?
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Here's my notebook for this year's regional convention "Love never fails!" I hope you'll enjoy!
 
Like always, if you find any mistakes, please let me know, so I can correct them and upload a new version. 
 
 
 
Thank you all for the emails I receive from all over the world. It really makes my day when I read them. 🙂

Introducing JWTalk Clubs - a new feature for Jehovah's Witnesses to create special interest groups within our online community. We hope JWTalk Clubs will help members of the community to get to know their brothers and sisters better and draw close to one another in Christian love and true friendship.
 
 
 

In an effort to increase the speed and efficiency of JWTalk, I will be moving the site to a new server soon.
 
Our current VPS server is a shared-core environment with 3.25 GB of RAM and 90 GB of disk space (we are using 45 to date). It is a normal hard drive.
 
The new VPS server will have 2 dedicated cores, 4 GB of RAM, and 100 GB of disk space. However, this is a SSD drive.
 
Our current CPU load averages at the time of this writing this are "0.71 0.85 0.92" (those are 1, 5, and 15 minute averages), which means we're utilizing less than 1 core's worth of processor time. Over the last 8 hours, our load never got above 1.3. Since we will be utilizing dedicated CPU cores instead along with an SSD drive, we likely will see a performance improvement. 

I started development on a "Dark Mode" theme a couple weeks ago. It's a bit challenging. I'm just curious who would use it.
 
Would you like have a Dark theme option for JWTalk?
 
Example....
 

With less than a week to go - what are we thinking for July?
 
https://www.jw.org/download/?fileformat=MP4&langwritten=e&pub=jwb&issue=201807

This is the cover of the International Edition of NEWSWEEK magazine and related news article.
 
 

This public service announcement was made available to television stations around the world for broadcasting at their discretion. 

https://www.jw.org/finder?wtlocale=E&docid=502018809&srcid=share