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Every 30.33 seconds a new member is baptized into one of the 13 divisions of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. [67] In 2006, over 25 million people worshiped weekly in Seventh-day Adventist churches around the world. [100] In 2011, it was reported that the Seventh-day Adventist Church was the fastest-growing church in the United States.
The General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists is the worldwide governing body of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. It consists of 13 worldwide "Divisions", which are divided into "Unions", which are in turn subdivided into local "Conferences". Government of the Seventh-day Adventist Church also describes the structure of the church.
The General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists [1] [2] is the governing organization of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.Its headquarters is located in Silver Spring, Maryland and oversees the church in directing its various divisions and leadership, as well as doctrinal matters.
Lee Boyd Malvo – former Seventh-day Adventist and convicted murderer who was connected to the D.C. sniper attacks in the Washington metropolitan area and converted to Islam [326] [327] Jesse Martin – boy sailor; his parents were Adventists [328] Wayne Martin - American who left the Seventh-day Adventist Church and joined the Branch ...
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 Inter-American Division of Seventh-day Adventists is a sub-entity of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, which oversees the Church's work in Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and Northern South America. Its headquarters, which is the only division of the church whose headquarters is outside its territory, is in Miami ...
A seventh group is composed of Nestorians. Divisions occurred within the Church of the East, especially the schism of 1552, but by 1830 two unified patriarchates and distinct churches remained: the Assyrian Church of the East and the Chaldean Catholic Church (now an Eastern Catholic Church in communion with the Holy See).
Much of this information (particularly the location information) was taken from sites of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, such as the site below. List of Adventist colleges and universities by divisions of the Adventist Church Archived 2009-11-21 at the Wayback Machine; Search for a school nearby; Adventist Directory