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.
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.
"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.
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...
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.
Financial audits of the Seventh-day Adventist Church world headquarters will now be more independent, following a vote to have the Church's General Conference executive committee appoint a separate financial audit review committee that will not have churc