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The Seventh-day Adventist Church is as of 2016 "one of the fastest-growing and most widespread churches worldwide", [4] with a worldwide baptized membership of over 22 million people. As of May 2007, it was the twelfth-largest Protestant religious body in the world, and the sixth-largest highly international religious body.
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 ...
Adventism is a branch of Protestant Christianity that believes in the imminent Second Coming (or the "Second Advent") of Jesus Christ.It originated in the 1830s in the United States during the Second Great Awakening when Baptist preacher William Miller first publicly shared his belief that the Second Coming would occur at some point between 1843 and 1844.
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. The General Conference includes 13 regional administrative sections, called divisions as well as four attached unions/fields.
Adventist La Grange Memorial Hospital La Grange, Illinois United States: 186 1955 Adventist Medical Center Okinawa Japan: 48 1953 Adventist Medical Center Sanatorio Adventista: Mexico City Mexico: 28 1988 Adventist Medical Center - Bacolod: Bacolod Philippines: 170 1966 Adventist Medical Center - Iligan City: Iligan Philippines: 130 1948
The Antillean Adventist University (AAU) (in Spanish: Universidad Adventista de las Antillas) (UAA) is a private, Seventh-day Adventist university in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. It is a part of the Seventh-day Adventist education system , the world's second largest Christian school system.
Central American Adventist University (Universidad Adventista de Centro America - UNADECA) is a Seventh-day Adventist co-educational university located in Alajuela, Costa Rica, and accredited by the Association of Private Universities of Central America and Panama (AUPRICA), the United Association of Private University Rectors of Costa Rica (UNIRE), and the Adventist Accrediting Association.
Peruvian Union University Campus 1, Juliaca, Peru; Peruvian Union University Campus 2, Lima, Peru; Peruvian Union University Campus 3, Tarapoto, Peru; Southern Asia Division. Flaiz Adventist College, Narsapur, India; Hume McHenry Memorial High School and Jr. College, Pune, India; Helen Lowry College of Arts & Commerce, Aizawl, India