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The union conference (in some cases, a union mission) is made up of conferences and fields in a larger geographical area. The General Conference administers the worldwide direction of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. The General Conference includes 13 regional administrative sections, called divisions as well as four attached unions/fields.
The North American Division (NAD) of Seventh-day Adventists is a sub-entity of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, which oversees the Church's work in the United States, Canada, French possessions of St. Pierre and Miquelon, the British overseas territory of Bermuda, the US territories in the Pacific of Guam, Wake Island, Northern Mariana Islands, and three states in free ...
In 1860, the fledgling movement finally settled on the name, Seventh-day Adventist, representative of the church's distinguishing beliefs. Three years later, on May 21, 1863, the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists was formed and the movement became an official organization.
The Inter-American Division of Seventh-day Adventists is a sub-entity of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, which oversees the Church's work in Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and Northern South America. Its headquarters, which is the only division of the church whose headquarters is outside its territory, is in Miami ...
The Seventh-day Adventist Church (SDA) [5] is an Adventist Protestant Christian denomination [6] [7] which is distinguished by its observance of Saturday, [8] the seventh day of the week in the Christian and the Hebrew calendar, as the Sabbath, [7] its emphasis on the imminent Second Coming (advent) of Jesus Christ, and its annihilationist ...
The General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists is the worldwide governing body of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. It consists of 13 worldwide "Divisions", which are divided into "Unions", which are in turn subdivided into local "Conferences". Government of the Seventh-day Adventist Church also describes the structure of the church.
The Northern Asia-Pacific Division (NSD) of Seventh-day Adventists is a sub-entity of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, which oversees the Church's work in portions of Northern Asia, which includes the nations of Japan, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, and Taiwan.
The Trans-European Division (TED) of Seventh-day Adventists is a sub-entity of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, which coordinates the Church's operations in 22 European countries: Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Channel Islands, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, the Faeroe Islands, Finland, Greece, Greenland, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, the Isle of Man, Latvia, Lithuania ...