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The General Conference is a biannual gathering of members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), held every April and October at the Conference Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. During each conference, church members gather in a series of two-hour sessions to listen to the faith's leaders.
The LDS Church supports the choir both for prestige and as a proselytizing tool for spreading familiarity of the church but also to provide music at their biannual general conference. The choir performs at least weekly at the Tabernacle for a radio program called " Music and the Spoken Word " which is the longest-running national radio program ...
In the leadup to the weekend of the October 2023 General Conference, the church released new details about the new music. The hymnbook and children's songbook will be consolidated into a single volume, featuring 450-500 selections. The "core collection" will be released in 2024, with the new music book now titled "Hymns—for Home and Church".
In 2000, the LDS Church dedicated a new 21,000-seat Conference Center, which became the home of general conference. Conference satellite broadcasts may be watched live in thousands of chapels worldwide.
The Salt Lake Tabernacle, where LDS Church general conferences were held from 1867 until 2000. In the Latter Day Saint movement , a general conference is a meeting for all members of the church for conducting general church business and instruction.
Official church membership as a percentage of general population was 1.13% in 2007 and 1.21% in 2014. According to the 2014 Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life survey in both years, roughly 1% of Texans self-identify themselves most closely with the LDS Church.
Music & the Spoken Word is a religious radio and television series. Broadcast weekly from the Salt Lake Tabernacle in Salt Lake City , Utah , the program primarily features performances of music by Tabernacle Choir (Choir)—often accompanied by the Salt Lake Tabernacle organ and the Orchestra at Temple Square .
General Conference (LDS Church), a semi-annual world conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints held in April and October. General Conference Mennonite Church, an association of Mennonite congregations based in North America from 1860 to 2002; General Conference (Methodism), the top legislative body in many Methodist ...