Patriotic service to feature prophet
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In a satellite telecast to stake centers in the United States and Puerto Rico, President Gordon B. Hinckley will be keynote speaker at a patriotic service, part of the annual America's Freedom Festival at the Marriott Center on the BYU campus June 29.
Traditionally held on the Sunday preceding Independence Day, the program this year will include music by the Tabernacle Choir, according to Elder Carl W. Bacon, an Area Authority Seventy who is on the festival committee. The winner of the festival's senior speech contest will also present an oration on the topic of this year's theme, "In God We Trust."The choir will perform several inspirational segments from its statewide concert tour celebrating the sesquicentennial of the arrival of the pioneers into the Salt Lake Valley. This tour, featuring additional elements that will not be part of the patriotic service, is playing to standing-room only audiences throughout the state. The service will be the only performance of this repertoire in Utah County by the choir.
Because this year's service will be uplinked for satellite broadcast, it will begin promptly at 5:45 p.m. MDT in the Marriott Center and throughout the country at 6 p.m. MDT.
America's Freedom Festival is an annual celebration involving thousands of volunteers fostering freedom in the community and the country, Elder Bacon said. It is a non-denominational community celebration centered in Provo and Orem in Utah.
In a letter to all Church leaders in the United States and Puerto Rico, President Boyd K. Packer, acting president of the Quorum of the Twelve, wrote: "Priesthood leaders are encouraged to invite other Church and community groups to join members in viewing this program. Members are encouraged to invite their non-member friends."
