The mood, on the opening day of the 58th General Conference Session of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, could accurately be described as cool, calm and collected. But, in truth, it has not been without its trials and tribulations and organizers were requ
After the extremes of late night meetings and fellowship, delegates might be forgiven for slipping in late to the Friday business session. Yet there were a large number of delegates who celebrated with Matthew A. Bediako, executive secretary of the world
For the first time in the history of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, membership grew by more than 5 million new members in a five-year period. This was reported July 1 by Bert Haloviak, director of Archives and Statistics for the world church, to delega
Sir James Carlisle, governor-general of Antigua and Barbuda, spoke with passion and conviction
"The Scriptures constitute our supreme rule of faith and practice and the standard by which all teaching and experience is to be tested," according to a resolution on the Holy Bible voted by delegates to the 58th General Conference Session of the Seventh-
There are reportedly about 35 people -- out of nearly 2,000 -- under age 30 serving as delegates to the Adventist world church session in St. Louis, Missouri. The delegates come from the church's 13 world regions across the globe to represent a church of