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The North American Division (NAD) of Seventh-day Adventists is a sub-entity of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, which oversees the Church's work in the United States, Canada, French possessions of St. Pierre and Miquelon, the British overseas territory of Bermuda, the US territories in the Pacific of Guam, Wake Island, Northern Mariana Islands, and three states in free ...
The General Conference Session is the official world meeting of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, held every five years.At the session, delegates from around the world elect the Church's World Leaders, discuss and vote on changes to the Church's Constitution, and listen to reports from the Church's 13 Divisions on activities going on within its territory.
[1] [2] 1211 Avenue of the Americas , also known as the News Corp. Building , is an International Style skyscraper on Sixth Avenue in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City . Formerly called the Celanese Building , it was completed in 1973 as part of the later Rockefeller Center expansion (1960s–1970s) dubbed the "XYZ Buildings" .
It is currently served by the following New York City Subway stations: 86th Street at Broadway serving the 1 and 2 trains [6] 86th Street at Central Park West serving the A, B, and C trains [6] 86th Street at Lexington Avenue serving the 4, 5, 6, and <6> trains [6] 86th Street at Second Avenue serving the N, Q, and R trains [6]
Just south of the latter is the former Long Distance Building of the American Telephone & Telegraph Company, at 32 Avenue of the Americas, also known as 310–322 Church Street, a New York City designated landmark (NYCL). [8] The Cary Building and St. Peter's Church are both New York City landmarks [9] also listed on the NRHP. [7]
The building's interior and exterior were restored in the 1970s. It has been a Seventh-day Adventist church since 1963. [2] [3] [4] The church was designated a New York City landmark in 1970, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. [1] [3] The noted 1864 Baptist hymn, "Hanson Place," by Robert Lowry, was named after ...
It formed in New York City as a breakaway from the Seventh-day Adventist Church in 1929–1930 over racial tensions between black and white people. Its beliefs remained similar to Seventh-day Adventists.
The West-Central Africa Division (WAD) of Seventh-day Adventists is a sub-entity of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, which coordinates the Church's operations in 22 African countries, which include Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali ...