Delegates to vote policy issues
Seventh-day Adventist Church leaders from around the world will gather to discuss financial adjustments, outreach strategies and other organizational issues during the 2009 Spring Meeting.
About 200 delegates and other attendants are expected to attend the meetings held April 5 and 6. Spring meeting, one of the church's annual business meetings, will be located in the world church headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland, United States.
Delegates will hear reports compiled by the world church's departments, including presentations by Secretariat, Treasury and Global Mission.
Also on the agenda is the presentation of a paper defining the Adventist approach to outreach, called the Roadmap for Mission. Delegates will hear the findings from studies given to the church's two publishing houses, the Pacific Press and the Review & Herald. The study looked at the costs and benefits of keeping both publishing and printing within the church.
Church delegates will also suggest policy changes that will be voted on at the church's year-end meetings in October.
The 2009 Spring Meeting was originally scheduled to be held in Huntsville, Alabama, United States, but was moved to church headquarters, as part of the overall cutbacks the world church made to weather the economic downturn.