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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.
The Seventh-day Adventist Church runs a large educational system throughout the world. As of 2008, 1678 [1] secondary schools are affiliated with the Church. Some schools offer both elementary and secondary education.
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.
College Park (previously "College Town") is a small, leafy, residential eastern suburb of Adelaide, South Australia in the City of Norwood Payneham St Peters. It is always the most expensive suburb in South Australia , with a median sale price of $3.3 million as of 2024.
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.
Seventh-day Adventist Kinship International is a support organization that provides a spiritual and social community to current and former Seventh-day Adventists who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, asexual and/or intersex ( LGBTI ), and have felt hurt or rejected because of their sexual orientation and/or gender identity.