Renamed Adventist Global Communication Network the Adventist Television Network and added new functions to the Adventist Church's global satellite ministry.

Under the voted measure, the ATN will produce 1-2.5 hours of program weekly. GC vice president Ted Wilson said a proposal will be presented at the committee's Spring Meeting for 24-hour-a-day programming. "We want to have a stronger evangelistic outreach for church-based reception, and examine the possibility of a home-based viewer program," Wilson said.

Voted the formation of a new union mission in the Euro-Asia Division. The new Caucasus Union Mission was formed from the Trans-Caucasus Mission (which includes territory of Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Georgia), and the North Caucasus Conference, which was previously a part of the West Russian Union Conference.

Elected Angel Rodriguez, an associate director of the Biblical Research Institute, as director and GC general field secretary. Rodriguez replaces George Reid who will retire in 2002.

Invited Robert W. Daum, Southern New England Conference trust services director, to become associate General Conference trust services director. Daum fills a vacancy left by Mary A. Ang'aw of Kenya, who was elected at the 2000 General Conference session in Toronto but declined the call. At press time, Daum had not accepted the call.

Designated the fourth Sabbath of August on the Adventist church calendar as Abuse Prevention Day. GC women's ministries director Ardis Stenbakken said the day would give opportunity for the church to focus on the difficult problem of abuse and domestic violence.