On this Easter weekend, Church members are convening for the 166th Annual General Conference of the Church, being held under the direction of the First Presidency. While several thousand will be gathering April 6 and 7 on Temple Square in Salt Lake City for the conference that originates in the Tabernacle, tens of thousands more will tune in via radio or television.

General sessions are 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. MST, April 6, and 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. MDT, April 7. Priesthood session will convene at 6 p.m. MST Saturday.The following information may be of interest to members of the Church.

- Church satellite network. All sessions of the conference will be televised via satellite to more than 3,000 meetinghouses throughout the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, Haiti, Jamaica and the Dominican Republic. In addition, all general sessions will be transmitted via satellite to more than 1,200 cable television systems in the United States.

Church units or members in North America and Hawaii, with proper TV satellite reception capabilities, may receive the conference broadcasts in the following languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Cambodian, Cantonese, Haitian, Hmong, Korean, Laotian, Mandarin, Navajo, Portuguese, Samoan, Tongan and Vietnamese.

A special 27-minute video presentation, "The Lamb of God," will be broadcast over the Church satellite system in English, Italian, French, German, Portuguese and Spanish between general sessions of conference Sunday.

The Saturday and Sunday morning sessions will be transmitted live to Europe; the priesthood session and the Saturday afternoon session will be transmitted on a delayed basis on Sunday, followed by "The Lamb of God" video presentation. The Sunday morning Mormon Tabernacle Choir program, "Music and the Spoken Work," will also be transmitted live.

There are more than 100 stake and ward buildings with downlink equipment in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Germany, France, Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Italy and Switzerland.

- Videotapes. Church units in areas of the world where the satellite and other transmission are not available will receive videotapes of conference sessions through Church distribution centers, located in the 14 international areas of the Church.

- Non-English languages. Non-English-speaking Church leaders and members from various parts of the world, seated in the Tabernacle, the Assembly Hall, the Legacy Theater in the Joseph Smith Memorial Building, Temple Square North Visitors Center and local ward chapels are able to listen - with headsets - to conference proceedings in their own language through interpreters stationed in the lower level of the Tabernacle.

Translation will be provided in the following languages: Bulgarian, Cambodian, Cantonese, Croation, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Haitian-Creole, Hmong, Hungarian, Indoesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Laotian, Mandarin, Navajo, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Samoan, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Tahitian, Thai, Tongan and Vietnamese.

- Music. The 325-voice Mormon Tabernacle Choir, under the direction of Jerold Ottley and Craig Jessop with John Longhurst and Richard Elliott at the organ, will sing during the Sunday sessions of conference. The Mormon Youth Chorus will provide the music for the Saturday morning session, with Robert C. Bowden directing and Linda Margetts at the organ. Saturday Afternoon's session will feature the combined choirs from Ricks College with Kevin Brower directing and Bonnie Gooliffe at the organ.

- Volunteers. More than 200 volunteer ushers serve on Temple Square during the conference. They provide assistance to conference-goers in the Tabernacle, the Assembly Hall (overflow seating) and on the grounds. Language translators and interpreters are virtually all volunteers who have donated many hours of their time in preparation for the conference.