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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 Sabbatarian Adventists [1] Adventist Church of Promise; Churches of God (Seventh-Day) Creation Seventh Day Adventist Church; Sabbath Rest Advent Church; Seventh-day Adventist Church; Seventh Day Adventist Reform Movement. International Missionary Society of Seventh-Day Adventist Church Reform Movement; True and Free Seventh-day ...
The local conference (in some cases, a field) is made up of a number of churches in an area such as a state, province, or territory. 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.
In 2022, the Seventh-day Adventist Church was the largest Protestant health care provider in the world, with 1,000 facilities around the world. The facilities all together have 36,000 beds and 78,000 employees.
Pages in category "Seventh-day Adventist churches in the United States" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total.
In 1877, the Seventh-day Adventist Church established a Conference in Oregon, and in 1904 established the Laurelwood Academy at Laurelwood near Gaston. [7] The school was built on the former Donation Land Claim of R. D. Walker with the first building on campus a one-story dining hall. [ 8 ]
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 Seventh-day Adventist Church runs a large educational system throughout the world. As of 2008, 1678 [ 1 ] secondary schools are affiliated with the Church. Some schools offer both elementary and secondary education.