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every two years, was the fifth sponsored by the North American Division. The next conference will be held in Toronto, Canada, in early 2018. Sabbath’s prayer of dedication followed a special time of prayer Friday evening. At the end of the evening program, Armando Miranda, Jr., associate youth director for the North American Division, invited attending pastors and youth leaders onto the stage for a prayer of dedication for their service to young people in their churches. Hundreds of attendees then followed the pastors to the conference’s Gethsemane prayer room, where each pastor spent several minutes with each young person, praying for their personal requests and anointing them if requested.
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Youth and young adults come to the Gethsemane Prayer Room for prayer, counseling, and annointing the Friday evening of the conference. Jackson, in his remarks on Sabbath, told the story of the first time he built a house, and the tensions that arose when the building inspector advised him that he might have built it on the wrong property. The potential conflict ended when Jackson told
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the inspector who had laid the foundation. The builder had a reputation for never making mistakes. “We need to have a foundation built on Jesus,” Jackson said. “He must be in the middle of everything we share or do.” n
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