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The General Conference is providing this Website for your information purposes only. Certain organizations may choose to link this Website to their own website. Such linkage is not meant to imply that the General Conference agrees with, supports, or concurs with the content such websites may contain.

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The General Conference Corporation of Seventh-day Adventists® owns the trademarks for the names General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists®, Seventh-day Adventist® and Adventist®, as well as numerous other trademarks, including, but not limited to:

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In addition to registration with the United States Patent and Trademark Office, registrations are also current or pending in various other jurisdictions. Use of trademarks owned by the General Conference shall be controlled by the General Conference and may not be used without permission. Church trademarks shall not be used in any manner that will jeopardize the Church’s tax-exempt status and shall not be utilized in commercial endeavors.

For further information regarding this Web site or anything related to it, you may send email to the Web Manager, or write to:

General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists
Attention: Web Manager, Communications Department
12501 Old Columbia Pike
Silver Spring, MD 20904
United States of America