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Washington Adventist University was established in 1904 by the Seventh-day Adventist Church as Washington Training College. In 1907, it was renamed Washington Foreign Mission Seminary, in 1914, Washington Missionary College, in 1961, Columbia Union College, and in 2009 received its current name. [3]
Washington Adventist University, Takoma Park, Maryland, United States; Not Church owned, but closely aligned with the Seventh-day Adventist Church: Hartland College, a division of Hartland Institute, Rapidan, Virginia, United States; Middle Tennessee School of Anesthesia, Madison, Tennessee, United States
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.
Kingsway College is a Seventh-day Adventist high school in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada. It is a former degree-granting post-secondary institution , having offered post-secondary education from 1916 to 1975.
The Seventh-day Adventist Church had its roots in the Millerite movement of the 1830s to the 1840s, during the period of the Second Great Awakening, and was officially founded in 1863. Prominent figures in the early church included Hiram Edson, Ellen G. White, her husband James Springer White, Joseph Bates, and J. N. Andrews.
Benjamin George Wilkinson (1872–1968) was a Seventh-day Adventist missionary, educator, and theologian.He served also as Dean of Theology at the Seventh-day Adventist Washington Missionary College (now known as Washington Adventist University) which is located in Takoma Park, Maryland, near Washington, D.C. Wilkinson is considered one of the originators of the King James Only beliefs.
The Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary (SDATS) is the seminary located at Andrews University in Michigan, the Seventh-day Adventist Church 's flagship university. Since 1970 the SDATS has been accredited by the Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada. It is a part of the Seventh-day Adventist education system ...
Neal Clayton Wilson (July 5, 1920 – December 14, 2010) served as the president of the General Conference of the Seventh-day Adventist Church from 1979 to 1990. Wilson was head of the North American Division when elected on January 3, 1979, to take the place of the ailing former General Conference president Robert Pierson, who had resigned for reasons of health.