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A History of Adventist Lifestyles
...order, this included local congregations, state conferences, regional union conferences, divisions, and the General Conference. [3] George Knight, A Brief History of Seventh-day Adventists (Hagerstown, MD: Review and Herald Publishing Association, 1999), 71. [4] In “From Sect to Church, from Meeting-House to Kitchen: The Development of Adventist and Changing Roles...
God’s Last Choice: Overcoming Ellen White’s Gender and Women in Ministry During the Fundamentalist Era Part 1
...prior to 1930, especially since the General Conference wrote it for a non-Adventist audience—people completely unfamiliar with Adventist policy and procedure. In the early 1930s Adventist administrators deliberately removed the clause, “Membership in the conferences or the ministry is open to both sexes, although there are very few female ministers,”...
From the Spectrum Archives: Status, Trends, and Analysis of Seventh-day Adventist Regional Conferences, 1950-2009
...were organized. By 1951, seven Regional Conferences were operational: 1) Lake Region in the Lake Union Conference, 2) Allegheny in the Columbia Union Conference, 3) South Atlantic in the Southern Union Conference, 4) South Central in the Southern Union Conference, 5) Northeastern in the Atlantic Union Conference, 6) Central States...
Catholic or Adventist: The Ongoing Struggle Over Authority + 9.5 Theses
...light.”19 In many ways the most enlightening episode regarding Ellen White’s position on authority took place in relation to the 1888 General Conference session.20 At that event she had to confront those pushing traditional Adventist perspectives at several levels of human authority. One approach was General Conference president G. I. Butler’s...
God’s Last Choice: Overcoming Ellen White’s Gender and Women in Ministry During the Fundamentalist Era Part 2
...even if a prophet of God advocated it. In 1931, Adventist administrators adopted a third policy that impacted women directly. At this time, the General Conference set term limits that fixed General Conference positions to twelve years, unions to eight, and local conferences and missions to six. Though term limits...
Sources of the Current Crisis in the World Church
...humiliated them. This conference was an important step in changing the attitudes and behavior within the Adventist church towards members with AIDS. Even though most the African Adventists with AIDS had contracted the disease through frequently contravening the sexual mores taught by the church, the Adventist church felt able to...
Reorganization of Church Structure, 1901–03: Some Observations
...decentralization of much decision-making from the General Conference administration to union conference executive committees; The consolidation of departments of the General Conference and the dissolution of independent incorporated entities that had been operating departments and some institutions; The title of the chief officer of the General Conference was to be...
On the Back Burner: Adventists and Environmentalism
...Association General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, Seventh-day Adventists Believe . . .: A Biblical Exposition of 27 Fundamental Doctrines (Hagerstown, MD: Review and Herald, 1988): 274. http://www.sdanet.org/atissue/books/27/index.htm 49. General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists Executive Committee, “Statement on Caring for the Environment,” October 12, 1992. Retrieved November 25, 2020. https://www.adventist.org/articles/caring-for-the-environment/...
The Role of Union Conferences in Relation to Higher Authorities*
...carry a greater responsibility for, the local work, than the General Conference can possibly do. Such can hardly be the case if the General Conference does its duty. The General Conference stands as it were in the place of the parent to the local conference.”3 That mentality in essence held...
Supporting the World Church or Subverting the Local Conference?
...the Upper Columbia Conference (WCASC for short) is composed of laypersons who are members in regular standing in Upper Columbia Conference churches and who support the Seventh-day Adventist world church. In Upper Columbia Conference, Affirmation Sabbath meetings are voted by church boards and held by local churches in liason [sic]...
100 Famous African Americans and Seventh-day Adventists
...Bolt was raised in a Seventh-day Adventist home, as a youth attending the Sherwood Content Seventh-day Adventist Church in Trelawny, Jamaica. See: “Olympic Champion Usain Bolt Was Raised in Adventist Home” by Felipe Lemos, Adventist Review Ed Correa, MLB Pitcher Born and raised a Seventh-day Adventist in Puerto Rico,...
General Conference Working Policy: The Challenge of Enforcement and the Opportunity for Development
...Division Working Policy) General Conference Working Policy is the compilation of policy decisions adopted by the General Conference Executive Committee. The first compilation of General Conference working policies was published in 1926 and contained a digest of decisions by the General Conference Executive Committee and General Conference Sessions. In connection...
Adventists, Fundamentalism, and the Second Wave of the Ku Klux Klan
...these Fundamentalists, A. G. Daniells, organizer of the Adventist 1919 Bible Conference (modeled after these prophetic conferences), would state that Adventists are the “Fundamentalists of the Fundamentalists.” Adventists began to adopt these ideas from the Fundamentalists into their own unique variety of Adventist Fundamentalism. Adventists who sought social respectability on...
The Adventist Church and Its LGBT Members — Part 4
...officially approved face of LGBT Adventists. Guiding Families After the Adventist NAD issued a statement in 2015 emphasizing sexual behavior rather than orientation, it became increasingly aware of the practical issues concerning responding to LGBT Adventist children that were posed increasingly by parents, churches, conferences, youth and family ministries, schools...
Window of Opportunity: Qualitative Inquiry Examining Race, Religion, Regional Conferences, and Response to Social Issues within the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the United States
...Central States Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. “Statement Regarding the Death of George Floyd.” Retrieved from https://spectrummagazine.org/news/2020/central-states-conference-issues-statement-death-george-floyd [35] Florida Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. “Injustice in Minneapolis.” Retrieved from https://floridaconference.com/george-floyd-statements/ [36] Lake Union. “Statement on Police Brutality and Racial Turmoil.” Retrieved from https://www.lakeunionherald.org/archive/articles/statement-on-george-floyd-tragedy [37] Oregon Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. “Statement on Racial...
A Conversation on Racism and Adventism with NAD Leadership
...Elder Robinson was stating, covers multiple states. And the word “regional” means that it is a multi-state conference versus an individual state. And so, the regional conference functions just as the state conferences do. The regional conferences are multiethnic conferences. Most of our regional conferences, not all of them, they...
A Firing Troubles Educators, Pastors, and Donors in the Oregon Conference
...Conference. Consistent with the ministry and writings of Ellen G. White, the Oregon Conference of Seventh-day Adventists considers education of students among our most sacred responsibilities. In March of 2022, the Oregon Conference of Seventh-day Adventists informed constituents that we had ended our relationship with our former education leader, due...
Adventist Schools, COVID-19, and the Big Government Bailout: Is the Funding in Jeopardy?
...revealed that the schools are (see Chart 3): Wimbish Adventist School – $9,331.99 Savannah Adventist Christian School – $20,991.86 Shoal Creek Adventist School – $4,951.21 Learning Tree Elementary School – $16,097.19 Atlanta North SDA School- $32,125.39 Decatur Adventist Jr. Academy -$37,874.15 Douglasville Adventist School – $2,816.61 Adventist Christian School in...
Takeaways: What Matters Most in an Adventist Education
...lost sight of, it is not surprising to find increasing numbers of parents sending their children to other Christian schools or even to public institutions.21 Adventist higher education that has lost its theological/prophetic orientation is no longer truly Adventist. AND ADVENTIST EDUCATION IS IMPORTANT ONLY IF IT IS TRULY ADVENTIST....