Crises, controversies and emergencies will happen in every annual conference. It's a matter of not if, but when. You can be assured that when a controversy or crisis happens in your conference, district or local congregation, it will come unexpectedly and it will probably happen at the most inconvenient time. But, you can also be assured that you will be able to deal confidently with the communications issues that arise if you have a well-thought out and practiced Crisis Communications Plan. United Methodist Communications offers these templates as a starting point for the development of your own custom Crisis Communications Plan. This CD-ROM contains crisis communications plans and templates. Print the documents from this CD-ROM to review and select what information you want in your own crisis plan. Duplication and modification rights are given for that express purpose. Files are provided as Microsoft Word 2000 (.doc) and Rich Text Format (.rtf).