Annual Council News Briefs
NEW FUNDAMENTAL BELIEF ENDORSED WORLD HEADQUARTERS PERSONNEL CHANGES NOTED 2007 ANNUAL COUNCIL IN KIEV, UKRAINE AFRICAN GRADUATE SCHOOL VOTED FOR NAIROBI EXECUTIVE COUNCIL TO MEET BEFORE ST. LOUIS SESSION
NEW FUNDAMENTAL BELIEF ENDORSED WORLD HEADQUARTERS PERSONNEL CHANGES NOTED 2007 ANNUAL COUNCIL IN KIEV, UKRAINE AFRICAN GRADUATE SCHOOL VOTED FOR NAIROBI EXECUTIVE COUNCIL TO MEET BEFORE ST. LOUIS SESSION
Although local church offerings have held at approximately 35 percent of tithe over the past 40 years, overall worldwide mission offerings have not kept pace with tithe increases, Bob Lemon, world church treasurer, told Annual Council delegates Oct. 12.
The Seventh-day Adventist Church "has a very large agenda to engage" in dealing with things that keep -- and repel -- members, as well as those that nurture Christian growth, a new survey, presented Oct. 10 to the church's Annual Council, reveals.
Following presentation of a report from a series of international faith and science conferences, the Annual Council of the Seventh-day Adventist Church considered its recommendations and set up a committee to prepare the Council's response.
A new plan for worldwide distribution of 2 million books by one of the church's founders, Ellen G. White, was voted by delegates Oct. 11 at the Adventist Church's Annual Council meetings.
More than one million people joined the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the year ending June 30, 2004, bringing the total world church membership to 13,663,497.