Signs of the Times Publishing Association (STPA) is one of the 62 Signs of the Times Publishing Houses around the world that belongs to the

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 ...

(SDA) and it is the only official publishing house in Chinese. STPA was first established by an American pastor named Dr.

Harry Willis Miller Harry Willis Miller (July 1, 1879 – January 1, 1977) was an American physician, thyroid surgeon and Seventh-day Adventist missionary. Miller was a vegetarian and pioneer in the development of soy milk.

in Henan province,

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in 1905. After being relocated several times through years, STPA was finally moved to

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(its current position) in 1963. STPA provides not only spiritual publications for SDA members, but also promotes its reading materials door to door through literature evangelists in order to spread God's gospel. The first Signs of the Times Publishing House was originally established in 1852 by an American pastor named James White (1821–1881), who purchased a small press and started to print pamphlets. Based upon that, it gradually developed and became the first publishing house of SDA Publishing Association. Adventist Church claimed currently she has a worldwide baptized membership of about over 17 million people and she operates numerous institutions, churches, schools, health centers, clinics, hospitals and 62 publishing houses in over 200 countries.

History

Signs of the Times Publishing House Started from 1905, major historical events are briefly listed as follows:

Chief Managers

(Signs of the Times Publishing House was established in Taiwan in 1963)

Chief Editors

{, class="wikitable" , - , Miller, H. W. , , 1903–1911 , - , Selmon, Arthur Clifford , , 1911–1916 , - , Shultz, J. E. , , 1917 , - , Hsia, En-Le , , 1918–1919 , - , Fu, Li-Wen , , 1920–1921 , - , Swartout, H. O , , 1922–1930 , - , Lee, Frederick , , 1931–1934 , - , Hsu, Hua , , 1934–1936 , - , Oss, John and Hsu, Hua , , 1937–1941 , - , Su, Xing Zhi , , 1942–1947 , - , Hsu Hua , , 1948 , - , Lin, Yao-His (Hong Kong Chief Editor) , , 1949–1950 , - , Tsai, Shu-Shen (Singapore Chief Editor) , , 1951–1963 , - , Li, Bin-Hsiang (Singapore Chief Editor) , , 1963–1969 , - , Teng, Chi-Yi , , 1970–1982 , - , Cho, Fu-Hsiang , , 1983–2006 , - , Huang, Shu-Mei , , 2006–2007 , - , Chou, Ying-Pi , , 2007–2010 , - , Chou, Li Chuan , , 2010 Till now

Sister Organizations

* Taiwan Adventist Hospital *Taiwan Adventist College *Seventh-day Adventist Church Taiwan Conference *Seventh-day Adventist Church Chinese Union Mission *Seventh-day Adventist Church Japan Publishing House *Seventh-day Adventist Church Korea Publishing House

References

official websiteThe Last Day Shepherd's Call

External links

Seventh-day Adventist ChurchSeventh-day Adventist Church Northern Asia-Pacific DivisionSeventh-day Adventist Church Chinese Union MissionAdventist WorldTaiwan Adventist College
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