IN THIS ISSUE ---

** Newly Elected General Conference Departmental Leaders
** New Fundamental Belief Being Reconsidered
** Three New Position Statements Approved
** An Interview with Jose Rojas about "Impact St. Louis" Youth Project
** More Sites of Interest


Friday FAX
July 5, 2005
A News and Information Service for Leaders in North America

From the managing editor ?
Today the delegates voted in the General Conference departmental leaders and three new position statements. Delegates are being very conscientious in the use of their voting power and discussion privileges. Sometimes much discussion takes place over the use of a particular word or term in order to avoid a misunderstanding of or offending a particular culture or nationality



GC Session #4

General Conference Leaders as Voted in this Morning's Business Session:
General Field Secretary, Gary D. Krause
General Field Secretary, Angel M. Rodriguez,
Adventist Chaplaincy Ministries, Martin W. Feldbush, Director,
Director, Children's Ministries, Linda Mei Lin Koh
Director, Communication, Rajmund Dabrowski,
Director, Education, C. Garland Dulan,
Director, Family Ministries, Ronald Flowers,
Director, Family Ministries, Karen Flowers, Associate
Director, Health Ministries, Allan R. Handysides,
Director, Public Affairs and Religious Liberty, John Graz,
Director, Publishing Ministries, Howard F. Faigao,
Director, Trust Services, Jeffrey K. Wilson,
Director, Women's Ministries, Heather-Dawn Small,
Director, Youth Ministries, Baraka G. Muganda,
Secretary, Ministerial Association, James A. Cress

New Fundamental Belief Being Reconsidered ? It was voted to reconsider the new fundamental belief, "Growing in Christ," as worded and voted yesterday, and to refer it to the committee to reword it so as to be more sensitive to various cultures, and bring it back to the body of delegates.

Three New Statements Approved ? "On Being Transformed in Christ ? An Affirmation of Christian Values and Quality of Life;" "Respect for All People ? Making Churches and Community Safe;" and "Religious Extremism ? A Danger to Religious Liberty."
Contact: http://news.adventist.org/specials/2005/gcsession/voted_docs/index.html to read these new position statements.

"Impact St Louis" Project of the Youth Ministries Department ? You will find an interesting interview at the Adventist Radio Broadcasters Association website with Jose Rojas about the activities of youth around the city of St. Louis during GC Session.
Contact: http://www.adventistradio.net/categories/audio/ and click on "Sermons and Devotionals"where you can also find GC Session devotionals in audio format.

Sites of Interest ? To see what the St. Louis Dispatch has to say about the GC Session, go to http://www.stltoday.com/ and do a search for "Adventist." Articles about the session have been found in more than 50 other newspapers, nationwide, that we know of. Other sites and sources of information are:

http://www.prnewswire.com/broadcast/21941/consumer.shtml for a video news release dealing with living a vegetarian lifestyle.

www.nad.gcsession.org for photos and news updates.

www.adventistreview.org (Adventist Review) for details and photos of meetings, devotionals, and reports.

www.adventist.org for news reports of GC Session highlights, photos, .

www.hopetv.org for televised broadcasts of reports and devotionals and music given at GC Session.

www.adventsource.org or 800-328-0525 (AdventSource) to order CD or DVD sets of morning devotionals, division reports, full Sabbath services and lots of music from the Session.

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Managing Editor * Lynetta Murdoch
lynetta.murdoch@nad.adventist.org
Fax 301-680-6464
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