Church Calls for Unity in South Africa
Seventh-day Adventist world leaders have called on the church in South Africa to complete the work of racial integration throughout all its administrative structures.
Seventh-day Adventist world leaders have called on the church in South Africa to complete the work of racial integration throughout all its administrative structures.
The rapid growth of the Seventh-day Adventist Church around the world means there must be a more efficient method of filling top leadership positions, said members of the church's executive committee, meeting April 18 in Silver Spring, Maryland, United St
Church leaders have endorsed a new administrative structure for the church in Africa--a change prompted in part by extraordinary rates of church growth on the continent.
In a gathering of the church's executive committee, pastor Jan Paulsen, world church president, challenges church leaders and members to focus more deliberately on the three strategic values of the world church: Unity, Growth, and Quality of Life.
The Global Mission Operations Committee last week approved more than 1 million dollars to help fund 732 projects to start new Seventh-day Adventist congregations around the world.
A statement on behalf of the Seventh-day Adventist Church to the United Nations Commission to Human Rights on April 9 deplored the "ever-increasing rise in religious intolerance, conflict and violence," and protested persecution of religious minorities.