The New NAD HQ

[Gregory Matthews]

The following link reports on the dedication of the new NAD HQ.  Much may be considered inconsequential.  I find a few items of  interest.

https://spectrummagazine.org/article/2017/10/27/new-building-and-renewed-hope-day-1-nad-meetings

*  The building was purchased and renovated with cash and no debt was incurred. 

*  The total cost to the NAD for purchase and renovation came in at $244 per square foot.

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I {Alisa Williams} was most captivated by the C.D. Brooks Prayer Chapel where the focal point is a glass mosaic created by Monte Church. Nine lambs appear in the mosaic, representing the nine unions. Fragments of glass shaped like each state and province in the NAD are scattered throughout and a series of dots and dashes along the bottom represent a prayer for help to the Lord in Morse Code.

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He {Dan Jackson} began by telling the delegates that the chairs they were sitting in were the same chairs used at GC Session 2015. “I think the brethren sold them to us in the hope that their influence would rub off and that we would always be in harmony with the General Conference. It’s another approach at unity!” Jackson told the chuckling audience.

On a more serious note, he added that he wanted every delegate present to feel comfortable speaking their minds throughout the sessions, whether that means agreeing or disagreeing with something someone else has said, as long as it’s done with respect and love.

"This is a family. A healthy organization will have healthy discussion, and that includes disagreement,” said Jackson.

“I tell my wife that if we always agree, then one of us is redundant,” he added.

“Does she agree with that?” shouted someone from the audience, eliciting laughs all around.

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