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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 ...
Kamagambo Adventist College, Kisii, Kenya. Kanye Seventh-day Adventist College of Nursing, Kanye, Botswana. Malawi Adventist University (formerly Lakeview College), Ntcheu, Malawi. Nyanchwa Adventist Teachers College, Kenya. Philip Lemon University, Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The Seventh-day Adventist Church (SDA) [5] is an Adventist Protestant Christian denomination [6][7] which is distinguished by its observance of Saturday, [8] the seventh day of the week in the Christian (Gregorian) and the Hebrew calendar, as the Sabbath, [7] its emphasis on the imminent Second Coming (advent) of Jesus Christ, and its ...
The educational system is a Christian school -based system. [1][2] In 2023, the Seventh-day Adventist Church has associations with a total of 9,845 educational institutions operating in over 100 countries around the world with over 2,177,933 million students worldwide. The denominationally-based school system began in the 1870s.
Pine Forge Academy is a co-educational, Seventh-day Adventist Christian boarding school that serves grades nine through twelve. Part of the Seventh-day Adventist education system, the world's second largest Christian school system, [2][3][4][5] it is located in Berks County, Pennsylvania.
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.
Loma Linda Academy (LLA) is a Seventh-day Adventist K-12 college preparatory coeducational school in Loma Linda, California, United States. [1] It is the largest Seventh-day Adventist K-12 school in the United States, [5] with 1289 students as of 2015. [6][5] The city of Loma Linda "is home to one of the largest concentrations of Seventh-day ...
The General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists[1][2] is the governing organization of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Its headquarters is located in Silver Spring, Maryland and oversees the church in directing its various divisions and leadership, as well as doctrinal matters. The General Conference, which is overseen by an executive ...