A program to recruit and sponsor missionary volunteers from local Seventh-day Adventist churches, who will spend six months to two years in field service, was approved at the world church's annual business meetings on Oct. 13.
Seeking to expand the opportunities for the Seventh-day Adventist Church to reach and win those who do not know Jesus as Savior, the church's annual business session voted Oct. 13 to create a Center for World Evangelism, which will be based at the world h
Financial audits of the Seventh-day Adventist Church world headquarters will now be more independent, following a vote to have the Church's General Conference executive committee appoint a separate financial audit review committee that will not have churc
Gathered from remnants of the 19th-century Millerite movement, the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, the official name of the world church's governing organization, celebrated 140 years of operating during its fall annual business meeting.
Bringing the gospel message to a hurting world, and nurturing those who respond, were the key elements of discussions in the Sunday, Oct. 12 morning business meeting of the Seventh-day Adventist Church's Annual Council.
There are 13,325,270 baptized members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church as of June 30, 2003, according to Bert Haloviak, director of the church's office of Archives and Statistics. This represents a net increase of 573,097 members, or a little more than