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Seventh-day Adventist Church In Brazil
The Seventh-day Adventist Church is a major Christian denomination with a significant presence in Brazil with over 1,721,758 members as of June 30, 2020. The Seventh-day Adventist Church splits Brazil into eight Unions. Sub Fields *Central Brazil Union Conference''website**Central Sao Paulo Conferencwebsite**East Sao Paulo Conferencwebsite**Sao Paulo Conferencwebsite**Sao Paulo Valley Conferencwebsite**South Sao Paulo Conferencwebsite**Southeast Sao Paulo Conferencwebsite**Southwest Sao Paulo Conferencwebsite **West Sao Paulo Conferencwebsite*East Brazil Union Mission''website**Sergipe Missiowebsite**Bahia Conferencwebsite **Central Bahia Conferencwebsite **North Bahia Conferencwebsite **South Bahia Conferencwebsite **Southwest Bahia Missiowebsite *North Brazil Union Mission''website **Maranhao Conferencwebsite **Northeast Maranhao Mission **South Maranhao Missiowebsite**North Para Conferencwebsite**South Para Conferencwebsite**West Para Missiowebsite**Para-Amapa Missiowebsite *Nort ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seventh-day Adventist Church
The Seventh-day Adventist Church is an Adventist Protestant Christian denomination which is distinguished by its observance of Saturday, the seventh day of the week in the Christian (Gregorian) and the Hebrew calendar, as the Sabbath, and its emphasis on the imminent Second Coming (advent) of Jesus Christ. The denomination grew out of the Millerite movement in the United States during the mid-19th century and it was formally established in 1863. Among its co-founders was Ellen G. White, whose extensive writings are still held in high regard by the church. Much of the theology of the Seventh-day Adventist Church corresponds to common evangelical Christian teachings, such as the Trinity and the infallibility of Scripture. Distinctive post-tribulation teachings include the unconscious state of the dead and the doctrine of an investigative judgment. The church places an emphasis on diet and health, including adhering to Kosher food laws, advocating vegetarianism, and its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seventh-day Adventist Church In The People's Republic Of China
The Seventh-day Adventist Church is a major Christian denomination with a significant presence in the People's Republic of China with a reported 472,314 members as of June 30, 2020. Many of its pastors in China are women. There are or used to be more than 350 SDA congregations in Jilin Province. Pastor Jan Paulsen, a former Adventist world church president, visited China in 2009. There he said "so many things have changed in China over the last two decades, and while freedom -- the increase of freedom -- is difficult to compare, I am very, very grateful for the fact that so many changes have taken place in this country." History In 1888, a Seventh-day Adventist layman named Abraham La Rue began selling publications to people in Shanghai and Hong Kong. He also arranged to have the first Adventist tracts to be published in Chinese. In 1902, Jacob N. Anderson (1867–1958) and his wife were sent to Hong Kong where they opened a school for Chinese children. When the Andersons arri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seventh-day Adventists In Turks And Caicos Islands
The Seventh-day Adventist Church is a major Christian denomination with a small presence in Turks and Caicos Islands with a reported 3,864 members as of June 30, 2020. History The first Sabbath keepers were discovered in the Turks and Caicos Islands on Grand Turk Island in 1906 by a Jamaican colporteur as he sold books. The Review and Herald of November 16, 1905 noted that “A woman on one of the Turks Islands at the turn of the twentieth century had come to recognize the seventh-day Sabbath through reading her Bible.” Since 1906 the work in the islands has had its ups and down, however it was not until 1945 that the territory saw the establishment of a permanent presence of the denomination. In 1945 Clyde Nebblett a colporteur migrated to Grand Turk with his wife and began a small group that met in their home. Later that year the island of Grand Turk was devastated by the 1945 Homestead hurricane. This forced the Nedletts to move to Providenciales in the community of Blue ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seventh-day Adventist Church In Tonga
The Seventh-day Adventist Church in Tonga, ( to, Siasi ʻAhofitu) is one of the smaller religious groups in the South Pacific island state of Tonga with a reported 3,853 members as of June 30, 2020, Retrieved June 4, 2021 started by missionaries from the United States who visited in 1891 and settled in 1895. They set up schools but made very little progress in conversion, handicapped by dietary rules that prohibited popular local foods such as pork and shellfish, and that also banned tobacco, alcohol and . The church was revi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seventh-day Adventist Church In Thailand
The Seventh-day Adventist Church is a major Christian denomination with a small presence in Thailand. The Seventh-day Adventist Church in Thailand (มูลนิธิคริสตจักรวันเสาร์แห่งประเทศไทย) began in 1919. The Thailand Adventist Mission had a reported 14,997 members as of 30 June 2020. Social work The Seventh-day Adventist Church operates a school of higher education in Thailand called Asia-Pacific International University. The church operates two hospitals in Thailand called Bangkok Adventist Hospital (locally called Mission Hospital) and Mission Hospital Phuket. History R. A. Caldwell, came to Thailand in 1906 to hand out Seventh-day Adventist literature. 10 years later Seventh-day Adventist colporteurs came to Thailand and found believers meeting in Bangkok. Chinese businessman, Tan Thian Tsua, moved to Bangkok and started the first Seventh-day Adventist Church in the country. The early work grew among Chin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seventh-day Adventist Church In Sweden
The Seventh-day Adventist Church in Sweden ( sv, Adventistsamfundet i Sverige) is a small Christian denomination in Sweden with a reported 2,902 members as of June 30, 2020. The first Seventh-day Adventist Church congregation in Sweden was established in 1880 in Grythyttan. In the early 2000s (decade), about 40 Swedish Seventh-day Adventist congregations existed in Sweden, most of them in central Sweden. See also * Australian Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists * Seventh-day Adventist Church in Brazil * Seventh-day Adventist Church in Canada * Seventh-day Adventist Church in the People's Republic of China * Seventh-day Adventist Church in Colombia * Seventh-day Adventist Church in Cuba * Seventh-day Adventist Church in India * Italian Union of Seventh-day Adventist Churches * Seventh-day Adventist Church in Ghana *New Zealand Pacific Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists * Seventh-day Adventist Church in Nigeria * Adventism in Norway *Romanian Union Conference of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romanian Union Conference Of Seventh-day Adventists
The Romanian Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists ( ro, Uniunea de Conferințe a Bisericii Adventiste de Ziua a Șaptea din România) is Romania's seventh-largest religious body, part of the worldwide Seventh-day Adventist Church. At the 2011 census, 85,902 Romanians declared themselves to be Seventh-Day Adventists. The church put its own membership at 62,215 in 2020. Ethnically, in 2002, they were 83.5% Romanians, 9.7% Hungarians, 4.9% Roma, 1.4% Ukrainians and 0.5% belonged to other groups. The denomination has 1,185 church buildings and some 340 pastors. It originates in the 19th century and is divided into six local conferences, standing for and named after some of the country's main historical regions: Banat, Northern Transylvania, Southern Transylvania, Moldavia, Muntenia and Oltenia. History In 1868-69 Michał Belina-Czechowski, a former Roman Catholic priest who had embraced Adventism in the United States, arrived at Pitești and introduced Seventh-Day ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adventism In Norway
Adventist congregations in Norway ( Norwegian: ) are a protestant free church in Norway. History Adventism in Norway came from the Pietist revival (Haugean movement) started by Norwegian Lutheran preacher Hans Nielsen Hauge. Evidence suggests that four families in southern Norway became the nucleus of Norwegian Adventism after discovering the seventh-day Sabbath, though it is not believed to have been the result of contact from keepers of the Sabbath. Instead, it is believed that it was derived from their reading of the Bible. The Danish American John Gottlieb Matteson came to Norway in 1878 and began working as a missionary for the Seventh-day Adventists. Gottlieb composed the first Dano-Norwegian Adventist hymnal. He became the editor of in 1872, which was eventually distributed to Scandinavian countries. It experienced good reception, leading to Matteson to go to Denmark and Kristiania (now Oslo) to preach. He later participated in the construction of the first church organi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seventh-day Adventist Church In Nigeria
The Seventh-day Adventist Church is a major Christian denomination with a significant presence in Nigeria with over 249,207 members as of 30 June 2018. The Seventh-day Adventist Church splits Nigeria into three unions. Sub Fields *Eastern Nigerian Union Conference **Aba East Conference **Aba North Conference **Aba South Conference **Abia North-Central Conference **Akwa Ibom Conference **Anambra Mission **Bayelsa Mission **Cross River Conference **Ebonyi Conference **Enugu Conference **Imo Conference **Port Harcourt Conference **Rivers East Conference **Rivers West Conference *Northern Nigerian Union Conference **North Central Nigeria Conference **North East Nigeria Conference **North West Nigeria Conference *Western Nigeria Union Conference **Delta Conference **Edo Conference **Ekiti Conference **Kogi Region **Kwara Conference **Lagos Atlantic Conference **Lagos Mainland Conference **Ogun Conference **Ondo Mission **Osun Conference **Oyo Conference Educa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Zealand Pacific Union Conference Of Seventh-day Adventists
The Seventh-day Adventist Church in New Zealand is formally organised as the New Zealand Pacific Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists (often abbreviated as NZPUC), a sub-entity of the South Pacific Division of Seventh-day Adventists. The membership of the Union is 20,943 as of 30 June 2020. The population to membership ratio is 1 Adventist to every 268 people. The headquarters for the Union is in Auckland, New Zealand. History Stephen N. Haskell, an Adventist missionary visited New Zealand four months after his first visit. He began marketing ''The Bible Echo'' and ''Signs of the Times'' (Australia/New Zealand version), two religious papers of the church. His truth was soon accepted by Edward Hare and his wife, who ran the boarding house in which he stayed. His success caused the Seventh-day Adventist church in America to send Arthur G. Daniells, an evangelist and former teacher, to further the work. Daniells' preaching soon paved way for the first Seventh-day Adventist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seventh-day Adventist Church In Ghana
The Seventh-day Adventist Church is a major Christian denomination with a significant presence in Ghana with over 356,599 members as of June 30, 2018. The country of Ghana is split into two Unions by the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Sub Fields *Northern Ghana Union Mission''website **Ashanti Central Ghana Conference **Ashanti South Ghana Conference **Central Ghana Conferencwebsite**Green View Ghana Conference **Mid-Central Ghana Conference **Mid-North Ghana Conference **Mid-West Ghana Conference **Mountain View Ghana Conference **North Ghana Mission **South Central Ghana Conference *Southern Ghana Union Conference''website **Accra City Conferencwebsite**Diamond Field Ghana Conference **East Ghana Conferencwebsite**Eastern View Ghana Conference **Meridian Ghana Conferencwebsite**Mid-South Ghana Conference **Pioneer Ghana Conference **South West Ghana Conference **Volta North Ghana Mission **Volta South Ghana Mission **West-Central Ghana Conference **Western North G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian Union Of Seventh-day Adventist Churches
The Italian Union of Seventh-Day Adventist Christian Churches ( it, Unione Italiana delle Chiese Cristiane Avventiste del Settimo Giorno, UICCA), part of the worldwide fellowship of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, is a Protestant denomination in Italy. The Union's full members, as of 30 June 2020, are 9,359, worshiping in 107 local churches. In 1986 Italian Seventh-day Adventists first signed an agreement with the Italian government, in accordance with article 8 of the Italian Constitution, which regulates the relations between the Republic and religious minorities. Three successive agreements were later signed. The latter of these agreements was approved by Parliament and made law in 2009.http://presidenza.governo.it/USRI/confessioni/norme/LEGGE%2067-2009.pdf Through the Voce della Speranza (VDS) organization, the UICCA has created the "Hope Media Italia" Adventist media center, which has both radio (RVS) and TV (HCI) branches. See also * Protestantism in Italy * Gener ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
