The rapid growth of the Seventh-day Adventist Church around the world means there must be a more efficient method of filling top leadership positions, said members of the church's executive committee, meeting April 18 in Silver Spring, Maryland, United St
Church leaders have endorsed a new administrative structure for the church in Africa--a change prompted in part by extraordinary rates of church growth on the continent.
In a gathering of the church's executive committee, pastor Jan Paulsen, world church president, challenges church leaders and members to focus more deliberately on the three strategic values of the world church: Unity, Growth, and Quality of Life.
The Global Mission Operations Committee last week approved more than 1 million dollars to help fund 732 projects to start new Seventh-day Adventist congregations around the world.
A statement on behalf of the Seventh-day Adventist Church to the United Nations Commission to Human Rights on April 9 deplored the "ever-increasing rise in religious intolerance, conflict and violence," and protested persecution of religious minorities.
Three pieces of legislation currently being considered by the Russian parliament pose "definite challenges to religious freedom in Russia," said John Graz of the Seventh-day Adventist Church's religious liberty department during an interview with Radio Fr