There are 13,325,270 baptized members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church as of June 30, 2003, according to Bert Haloviak, director of the church's office of Archives and Statistics. This represents a net increase of 573,097 members, or a little more than
Bringing the gospel message to a hurting world, and nurturing those who respond, were the key elements of discussions in the Sunday, Oct. 12 morning business meeting of the Seventh-day Adventist Church's Annual Council.
Television programming designed for in-home viewing was launched Oct. 10 by the Adventist Television Network, coinciding with church president Pastor Jan Paulsen's opening address of Annual Council, one of two biannual meetings of the church's executive
"Our assignment is to move out, to reach out. People are what matters," declared Pastor Jan Paulsen, world president of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in an opening address for the 91st annual council of church leaders on Oct. 10.
Sanitarium Health Food Company in Australia, a major health food arm of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, has sold more than 1.8 million vegetarian patties to McDonald's Australia.
News in Brief: Pitcairn Adventists Celebrate Birth The first baby to be born on Pitcairn Island in the South Pacific in 17 years was born Sept. 14. Nadine Christian gave birth to a daughter, Emily Rose, in the Pitcairn Island Medical Clinic. Her husband, Randy, is an eighth generation descendant ...