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While in Jamaica, Brooks worked with the West Jamaica Conference of Seventh-Day Adventists as an accountant, bookstore assistant manager, and member of a singing quartet. In 1959, Stennett married Erma R. Parchment. They moved to New York, where he joined the staff of the Northeastern Conference of Seventh-Day Adventist.
Neal Clayton Wilson (July 5, 1920 – December 14, 2010) served as the president of the General Conference of the Seventh-day Adventist Church from 1979 to 1990. Wilson was head of the North American Division when elected on January 3, 1979, to take the place of the ailing former General Conference president Robert Pierson, who had resigned for reasons of health.
Robert Stanley Folkenberg (January 1, 1941 – December 24, 2015) was an American pastor who served as General Conference president of the Seventh-day Adventist Church from 1990 through to his resignation in 1999. His tenure was marked by an unprecedented growth in church membership and his “Global Mission initiative” in the Adventist Church.
Some Seventh-day Adventist scholars have acknowledged that the church's view of the Trinity differs in several aspects from the traditional Christian doctrine. According to Jerry Moon, emeritus professor at the Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary , Ellen White held an essentially orthodox view of the Trinity, but it differed in important ...
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 ...
Reuben Richard Figuhr was the 15th president of the Seventh-day Adventist Church General Conference. He was born in Superior, Wisconsin, United States October 20, 1896. He served as Adventist president between 1954 and 1966. He married May Belle Holt. Figuhr died in Napa, California on October 28, 1983.
The local conference (in some cases, a field) is made up of a number of churches in an area such as a state, province, or territory. 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 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.