While world mission offerings decreased, the total amount of money given to the Seventh-day Adventist Church in 2002 was more than in 2001 despite a decreasing market economy.
Guidelines for growing a Seventh-day Adventist regional “mission field” into a full-fledged, self-reliant church region, or “Union Conference,” were approved following little discussion at the world church’s annual business meetings on Oct. 13. Pastor Joseph A. Ola, president of the church in Nig...
"I pray that all guests may find welcome here and are well received by this Church," said Pastor Jan Paulsen, president of the Seventh-day Adventist world church, in opening a new visitor's center at the world headquarters.
Seventh-day Adventists in Africa will soon have a ministry-related graduate program affiliated with a church-owned college or university there, following a vote by leaders at the annual business meeting Oct. 13, 2003.
A program to recruit and sponsor missionary volunteers from local Seventh-day Adventist churches, who will spend six months to two years in field service, was approved at the world church's annual business meetings on Oct. 13.
Gathered from remnants of the 19th-century Millerite movement, the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, the official name of the world church's governing organization, celebrated 140 years of operating during its fall annual business meeting.