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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 ...
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 ...
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 [327] [328] Jesse Martin – boy sailor; his parents were Adventists [329] Wayne Martin - American who left the Seventh-day Adventist Church and joined the Branch ...
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.
Seventh-day Adventist Church: Adventist: 1863 Ted N.C. Wilson [30] Silver Spring, Maryland, United States: Worldwide 21,912,161 [31] The world's largest Adventist denomination. Brings together the vast majority of the world's Adventists. The Apostolic Church: Pentecostal: 1911/1916 Worldwide 15,000,000
The General Association of Davidian Seventh-day Adventists (Davidians) or the Shepherd's Rod is an American offshoot of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, headquartered at the Mount Carmel Center near Waco, Texas. It was founded in 1929 by Victor Houteff, its President and Prophet. [61]
The Maryknoll Sisters, (formerly the Maryknoll Sisters of St. Dominic/Teresians) [1] are an institute of Catholic religious sisters founded in the village of Ossining, Westchester County, New York, in 1912, six months after the 1911 creation of the Maryknoll community of missionary brothers and fathers.