The agenda will include looking at ways to prepare young people for service in their congregations and communities. The planning meetings will also focus on how better to minister to children and teens through activities in the local congregations, through activities at the district level and by expanding the number and accessibility of SEP camps. In keeping with these goals, the church board of directors has decided to offer for sale the Summer Educational Program facility in Orr, Minnesota, and pursue newer and less expensive locations for the church's summer program with the goal of serving even more young people. Through the diligent efforts of our highly qualified and deeply dedicated SEP staff, young people leave camp each year with a rekindled excitement about being alive, about hope for a meaningful future and about being a Christian. Potential new sites are being evaluated.
Plans call for new locations to be rented, rather than owned and maintained all year.
Mr. Tkach said that the church hopes to negotiate any potential sale of the Orr property so that SEP could be conducted in Orr for the summer of 2001.