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Gilbert welcomed the Seventh-day Adventist Church to set up their world headquarters and publishing house in Takoma Park, D.C. with a hospital and college in neighboring Takoma Park, Maryland, and promoted the community's reputation for vegetarianism and "clean living" away from the "malarial swamps" of the city.
Washington Adventist University was established in 1904 by the Seventh-day Adventist Church as Washington Training College. In 1907, it was renamed Washington Foreign Mission Seminary , in 1914, Washington Missionary College , in 1961, Columbia Union College , and in 2009 received its current name.
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]
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).
In 1911 the nascent form of the Pathfinder club [12] 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. [13]
For many decades Takoma Park served as the world headquarters of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, [25] until it moved to northern Silver Spring in 1989. [ 24 ] In 1908, North Takoma Hotel was bought by Louis Denton Bliss, who turned it into Bliss Electrical School. [ 18 ]
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.
Bartlett was born in Moorland, Kentucky, to Martha Minnick and Roscoe Gardner Bartlett. [2] He completed his early education in a one-room schoolhouse. He attended Columbia Union College (now Washington Adventist University) in Takoma Park, Maryland, affiliated with the Seventh-day Adventist Church, and graduated in 1947 with a Bachelor of Science in theology and biology and a minor in chemistry.