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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. At its peak in the 1930s the movement had 15 congregations and smaller "missions" throughout the United States and Jamaica. It began to ...
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.
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 union conference (in some cases, a union mission) is made up of conferences and fields in a larger geographical area. The General Conference administers the worldwide direction of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. The General Conference includes 13 regional administrative sections, called divisions as well as four attached unions/fields.
In 1860, the fledgling movement finally settled on the name, Seventh-day Adventist, representative of the church's distinguishing beliefs. Three years later, on May 21, 1863, the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists was formed and the movement became an official organization.
Vice President of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists; In office August 2000 – June 23, 2010: President of the Euro-Asia Division of Seventh-day Adventists; In office 1992–1996: Personal details; Born May 10, 1950 (age 74) Takoma Park, Maryland: Nationality: American: Spouse: Nancy Wilson: Parent(s) Neal C. Wilson and Elinor E ...
Robert Howard Pierson (3 January 1911 – 21 January 1989) was an American president of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists during the 12½−year period June 16, 1966, to January 3, 1979. While in the line of duty, Pierson served in North America, Asia and Africa.
He went as a lay delegate to the Wesleyan organizational General Conference meeting in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1844; and later became a Wesleyan minister pastoring the church at Lisbon, New York. He regularly entertained Native Americans and fugitive slaves in his home (his home was reputed to be a stop on the " Underground Railroad " at Buck's ...