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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 ...
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.
In 2019, the Seventh-day Adventist Church had 21,000,000 baptized members around the world. [17] In 2020, church officials reported the lowest membership increase in 16 years, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Seventh-day Adventist Church added only 803,000 members, the last time annual membership growth dropped below 1 million was in 2004.
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.
Much of this information (particularly the location information) was taken from sites of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, such as the site below. List of Adventist colleges and universities by divisions of the Adventist Church Archived 2009-11-21 at the Wayback Machine; Search for a school nearby; Adventist Directory
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.
Pages in category "Seventh-day Adventist churches in the United States" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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.