Saying the 20-million-plus Seventh-day Adventist world community "is a big ship that turns around slowly," world church president Pastor Jan Paulsen told reporters Oct. 14 that leaders must consider the cross-cultural implications of growth and governance
NEW FUNDAMENTAL BELIEF ENDORSED WORLD HEADQUARTERS PERSONNEL CHANGES NOTED 2007 ANNUAL COUNCIL IN KIEV, UKRAINE AFRICAN GRADUATE SCHOOL VOTED FOR NAIROBI EXECUTIVE COUNCIL TO MEET BEFORE ST. LOUIS SESSION
Delegates to the Seventh-day Adventist Church's Annual Council meetings received and approved guidelines outlining an Adventist philosophy of music in an Oct. 12 session.
World leaders of the 13.6-million member Seventh-day Adventist Church voted to affirm the denomination's historic "belief in a literal, six-day creation," saying such a view "is indissolubly linked with the authority of Scripture."
Although local church offerings have held at approximately 35 percent of tithe over the past 40 years, overall worldwide mission offerings have not kept pace with tithe increases, Bob Lemon, world church treasurer, told Annual Council delegates Oct. 12.
A new plan for worldwide distribution of 2 million books by one of the church's founders, Ellen G. White, was voted by delegates Oct. 11 at the Adventist Church's Annual Council meetings.