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The 1952 Bible Conference [1] was a Seventh-day Adventist conference in the Sligo Church in Takoma Park, Maryland from September 1–13, 1952. There were 498 people listed as attending this meeting with worldwide representation (with at least 3 people from every division of the General Conference). From published reports it appears that there ...
In 1911 the nascent form of the Pathfinder club [11] was founded in Takoma Park, Maryland. Three clubs were formed in Takoma Park in 1911, they were: "Scouts Missions", "Woodland Clan & Pals" and "Takoma Indians". They were characterized by only accepting registration for boys. [12]
He then worked in the Africa-Indian Ocean Division of the SDA Church (Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire) until 1990, serving as a departmental director and later as executive secretary. After a two-year term as an associate secretary of the General Conference in Silver Spring, Maryland, Wilson became president of the Euro-Asia Division (Moscow, Russia ...
The headquarters was then moved to Takoma Park, Maryland. In the 1950s, the association developed The Bible Story by Arthur S. Maxwell . The set was notable for its size—including 411 stories from the Bible—and for having color illustrations on each page opening—an extravagant expense for a book publisher at that time.
Takoma Park is a city in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States.It is a suburb of Washington, and part of the Washington metropolitan area.Founded in 1883 and incorporated in 1890, Takoma Park, informally called "Azalea City", is a Tree City USA and a nuclear-free zone.
The Seventh-day Adventist Church is as of 2016 "one of the fastest-growing and most widespread churches worldwide", [7] with a worldwide baptized membership of over 22 million people. As of May 2007 [update] , it was the twelfth-largest Protestant religious body in the world and the sixth-largest highly international religious body.
Seventh-Day Adventist Encyclopedia (10 vol 1976), official publication; Pearson, Michael. Millennial Dreams and Moral Dilemmas: Seventh-day Adventism and Contemporary Ethics. (1990, 1998) excerpt and text search, looks at issues of marriage, abortion, homosexuality; Greenleaf, Floyd (2000).
WGTS began as a 10-watt campus broadcaster in 1957, operating from the basement of the men's dormitory at the then Washington Missionary College in Takoma Park. [5] In 1960, the station increased its power to 10,000 watts with a second power increase in the mid-1960s bringing the station up to 29,500 watts. [6]