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A variety of meetings and seminars sponsored by LDS Church members or like-minded affiliate organizations are held around the time of LDS General Conference, either once or twice each year. Among meetings scheduled during the upcoming semiannual conference are:
- The Association for Mormon Counselors and Psychotherapists, semi-annual
meeting, Oct. 5-6 at the Joseph Smith Memorial Building. Call 583-6227, or
see the Web site at www.amcap.net.
- Brigham Young University's Family Conference, Oct. 5-6 at the BYU
Conference Center, 770 E. University Parkway. The theme is "Families Under
Fire: Making Weaknesses Our Strengths." Sessions run from 8 a.m. to 3:40
p.m. Thursday and 9 a.m. to 3:40 p.m. Friday. For information, call
801-378-4853 or visit the Web site at: ce.byu.edu/cw/fuf/index.htm.
- BYU's seventh annual International Law and Religion Symposium,
"Comparative Constitutional Perspectives on Freedom of Religion and
Belief," Oct. 8-10 in the J. Reuben Clark Law Building. Utah Sen. Orrin
Hatch and Brazil's Minister of Justice Elizabeth Sussekind will speak
Sunday in 205 J. Reuben Clark Law Building (JRCB) at 7 p.m. Symposium
sessions will then begin Monday and Tuesday in 303 JRCB at 8:30 a.m. Call
801-378-2112 for information.
- Orphans Around the World, a new nonprofit organization directed at orphaned, abandoned and neglected children throughout the world, will hold its premier fund-raising event on Oct. 19 at 7:30 p.m. at the Community Congregational Church-United Church of Christ, at 175 N. University Ave. in Provo. BYU professor John Seggar, who has been sending BYU students to Romania since 1998, formed the nonprofit, nondenominational organization to send volunteers and donations to Romania. For information, see the Web site at www.orphansaroundtheworld.org or call 801-798-8320.
