MISSION GOAL:

“The Public Affairs and Religious Liberty Department promotes and maintains religious liberty, with particular emphasis upon liberty of conscience.  Religious liberty includes the human right to have or adopt the religion of one’s choice, to change religious belief according to conscience; to manifest one’s religion individually or in community with fellow believers, in worship, observance, practice, witness, and teaching, subject to respect for the equivalent rights of others.  Since religious liberty includes the right to observe days of rest and worship in accordance with the precepts of one’s religion, the department actively supports the right of Seventh-day Adventists to keep the Sabbath in accordance with the fourth commandment of God’s Word.”