General Assembly News

As most of you are aware, our General Assembly will be in Nashville, Tennessee this year in August. We are looking forward to our friends and members coming from around the world to sit together for this important event.

In the weeks leading up to the Assembly, I will be posting pertinent information on this blog in order to keep you up-to-date on the "flood" of information that will be coming out. Here is an example of the information forthcoming:

There will be a Pre-Assembly Pastoral Meeting on Monday, August 21 with the Assembly officially opening on August 22, 2006. The general sessions will be held in the Gaylord Entertainment Center while the ministry booths, White Wing Resource Center and the vendor’s exhibit area will be in the Nashville Convention Center which connects to the Gaylord Center.

This information can be printed and diseminated to each of our local congregations. I do hope this information will be helpful to you.

If there is certain information that you would like to see posted in this spot, please email it to me. My prayer for you today is that God will bless you abundantly.

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