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The educational system is a Christian school -based system. [1] [2] The Seventh-day Adventist Church has associations with a total of 8,515 educational institutions operating in over 100 countries around the world with over 1.95 million students worldwide. [3] [4] [5] The denominationally-based school system began in the 1870s. [6]
The Seventh-day Adventist Church runs a large educational system throughout the world. As of 2008, 1678 secondary schools are affiliated with the Church. Some schools offer both elementary and secondary education.
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.
Much of this information (particularly the location information) was taken from sites of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, such as the site below. List of Adventist colleges and universities by divisions of the Adventist Church Archived 2009-11-21 at the Wayback Machine; Search for a school nearby; Adventist Directory
It is the only HBCU owned and operated by the Seventh-day Adventist Church. [3] Oakwood University is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) and the Department of Education of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists (through the Adventist Accrediting Association ) to award associate, baccalaureate, and ...
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.
Andrews University (Andrews) is a private Seventh-day Adventist university in Berrien Springs, Michigan.Founded in 1874 as Battle Creek College, it was the first higher education facility started by Seventh-day Adventists and is the flagship university of the Seventh-day Adventist school system, the world's second largest Christian school system.
Georgia-Cumberland Academy ( GCA) is a Seventh-day Adventist private high-school operated by the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Georgia and Tennessee located in Calhoun, Georgia, United States. [8] GCA offers an Accrediting Association of Seventh-day Adventist Schools high school diploma program. [8]