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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 ...
Sligo SDA Church: 828: Last Session to be held in a church building 46. July 10–22, 1950: San Francisco, California: Exposition Auditorium: 943: 47. May 24 – June 5, 1954: San Francisco, California: Exposition Auditorium: 1109: First Session to have more than 1000 delegates 48. June 19–28, 1958: Cleveland, Ohio: Public Auditorium: 1160: ...
The president of the General Conference is the head of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, the governing body of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. The president's office is within the offices of the General Conference, located in Silver Spring, Maryland. [1] As of June 2010, the current president is Ted N. C. Wilson.
Seventh-day Sabbatarian Adventists [1] Adventist Church of Promise; Churches of God (Seventh-Day) Creation Seventh Day Adventist Church; Sabbath Rest Advent Church; Seventh-day Adventist Church; Seventh Day Adventist Reform Movement. International Missionary Society of Seventh-Day Adventist Church Reform Movement; True and Free Seventh-day ...
The Seventh-day Adventist Church is the largest of several Adventist groups which arose from the Millerite movement of the 1840s in upstate New York, [17] a phase of the Second Great Awakening. [18] William Miller predicted on the basis of Daniel 8:14–16 [ 19 ] and the " day-year principle " that Jesus Christ would return to Earth between the ...
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.
Mount Vernon Academy (MVA) was a private Christian boarding high school located in Mount Vernon, Ohio. The school, founded in 1893, was the oldest operating boarding academy of the Seventh-day Adventist Church until its closing in 2015. It was a part of the Seventh-day Adventist education system, the world's second largest Christian school system.
He then worked in the Africa-Indian Ocean Division of the SDA Church (Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire) until 1990, serving as a departmental director and later as executive secretary. After a two-year term as an associate secretary of the General Conference in Silver Spring, Maryland, Wilson became president of the Euro-Asia Division (Moscow, Russia ...