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his month the Seventh-day Adventist world church family gathers together in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, for its sixty-first General Conference Session, scheduled for June 6-11, 2022. Originally planned to be held in 2020 in Indianapolis, Indiana, the session had to be postponed twice because of extraordinary circumstances brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic. This session is unique in that it is the first time the more than 2,000 delegates representing more than 20 million Seventh-day Adventists from around the world will meet in a hybrid session. This means that while the majority of the delegates will be on-site in St. Louis, those delegates unable to attend on-site will participate virtually through electronic means. Those attending virtually will have all of the same rights and privileges of 16
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those who are on-site, including the possibility to speak and to vote. General Conference (GC) Sessions are important business meetings, and decisions taken there affect the world church. Some of the business conducted at a General Conference Session includes the election of General Conference officers, departmental directors, and associates, and officers of the General Conference’s world divisions. Delegates at the session Image: Pexels / Lagos Food Bank Initiative
