New center will again host general conference sessions
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As previously announced, the 170th Semiannual General Conference of the Church will be held on Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 7-8 in Salt Lake City.
General sessions will be conducted at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. (MDT) on Saturday and Sunday. The General Priesthood Meeting will be conducted Saturday at 6 p.m. All sessions will be held in the new Conference Center located just north of Temple Square.
The four general sessions of the conference will be relayed via satellite to Church gatherings throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, the Caribbean and Latin America. Sessions will also be carried live in the Intermountain region of the United States by Salt Lake City's KSL-TV, Channel 5, and KSL Radio, 1160 AM. More than 1,500 other radio and television stations and cable systems will carry all or portions of conference proceedings. Viewers are advised to check local listings.
President Gordon B. Hinckley will preside at all sessions. His counselors in the First Presidency, President Thomas S. Monson and President James E. Faust, will assist in conducting the conference.
Featured will be inspirational messages from members of the First Presidency, Quorum of the Twelve and other General Authorities and general officers of the Church.
The 325-voice Mormon Tabernacle Choir, under the direction of Craig Jessop, Mack Wilberg and Barlow Bradford, will provide music for the Saturday morning, Sunday morning and Sunday afternoon sessions of conference. Organists will be Richard Elliott, Bonnie Goodliffe and John Longhurst.
A combined Missionary Training Center choir will sing during the Saturday afternoon session with Douglas Brenchley directing and Linda Margetts at the organ. An Aaronic Priesthood choir from the Roy, Hooper, Kanesville and Riverdale Utah stakes, under the direction of Michael Huff, will sing at the priesthood session on Saturday evening with Clay Christiansen at the organ.
