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The Savior focus of annual BYU Easter Conference April 7

March 20, 2012

Brigham Young University Religious Education and the Religious Studies Center will host BYU's annual Easter Conference Saturday, April 7, from 9 a.m. to noon in the Joseph Smith Building auditorium (room 140) on the south end of the BYU campus.

Admission is free, and the public is encouraged to attend.

The speakers, Elder Gary J. Coleman, emeritus member of the First Quorum of the Seventy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and Andrew C. Skinner and Gaye Strathearn, will talk about the Savior, His life, His mission, the Atonement and His influence in our lives today. The conference will also feature special vocal and instrumental presentations.

For more information, contact Brent Nordgren at (801) 422-3293 or brent_nordgren@byu.edu.

Writer: Charles Krebs

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