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Indiana Academy is owned and operated by the Indiana Conference of Seventh day Adventists and is one of many other Adventist secondary educational institutions. It is a part of the Seventh-day Adventist education system, the world's second largest Christian school system. [1] [2] [3] [4]
The General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists [1] [2] is the governing organization of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.Its headquarters is located in Silver Spring, Maryland and oversees the church in directing its various divisions and leadership, as well as doctrinal matters.
The Seventh-day Adventist Church is as of 2016 "one of the fastest-growing and most widespread churches worldwide", [7] with a worldwide baptized membership of over 22 million people. As of May 2007 [update] , it was the twelfth-largest Protestant religious body in the world and the sixth-largest highly international religious body.
The General Conference Session is the official world meeting of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, held every five years.At the session, delegates from around the world elect the Church's World Leaders, discuss and vote on changes to the Church's Constitution, and listen to reports from the Church's 13 Divisions on activities going on within its territory.
In 2023, the Seventh-day Adventist Church has associations with a total of 9,845 educational institutions operating in over 100 countries around the world with over 2,177,933 million students worldwide. The denominationally-based school system began in the 1870s. [3]
Christian Theological Seminary is an ecumenical seminary related to the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and located in Indianapolis, Indiana. It provides five degree-level education courses, three dual-degree programs, a Doctor of Ministry (D.Min.) program, and a Ph.D. in African American Preaching and Sacred Rhetoric. As of 2019, the ...
E. E. Cleveland was a very successful evangelist holding over 60 campaigns in 6 continents and training over 1,000 pastors. [5] He was a Seventh-day Adventist church pioneer of the concept of evangelism in large cities and held national campaigns before satellite technology become common.
Indiana Bible College (IBC) focuses on preparing students for careers in professional ministry. The college offers Associate of Arts and Bachelor of Arts programs in Biblical Studies, Worship Studies, and Missiology with academic minors in religious education, missiology, social science, theology, communications and media, and worship studies, youth ministries, and urban ministries.