1963 Zleaz600k of the SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST DENOMINATION

1963 Zleaz600k OF THE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST DENOMINATION A DIRECTORY OF The General Conference, World Divisions, Union and Local Conferences and Missions, Educational Institutions, Hospitals and Sanitariums, Publishing Houses, Periodicals, and Denominational Workers. Edited and Compiled by E. L. Becker, Statistical Secretary General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists Roconsii'wEed in 1961) Published by REVIEW AND HERALD PUBLISHING ASSOCIATION WASHINGTON 12, D.C. PRINTED IN U.S.A. Contents Preface (Statistical Data) 4 Fundamental Beliefs of Seventh-day Adventists 5 Constitution and Bylaws 6 General Conference and Departments 12 Divisions: North American 22 Australasian 76 Central European 94 China 102 Far Eastern 104 Inter-American 130 Middle East 150 Northern European 156 South American 174 Southern African 194 Southern Asia 218 Southern European 232 Union of Socialist Soviet Republics 254 Institutions: Educational 255 Food Companies 321 Medical 327 Dispensaries and Clinics 349 Old People's Homes and Orphanages 352 Publishing Houses 353 Periodicals Issued 363 Advertisers 432 Statistical Tables 375 Countries Where S.D.A. Work Is Established 377 Necrology 390 Index of Institutional Workers 391 Directory of Workers 435 Special Days and Offerings for 1963 577 General Index 581 3 Preface A directory of the conferences, mission was established. The first denominational fields and institutions connected with the school was opened in 1872. Tract and mis- Seventh-day Adventist denomination is given sionary society work was organized on a in the following pages. Administrative and state-wide basis in 1870, and state Sabbath workers' lists have been furnished by the school associations in 1877. The name, "Sev- organizations concerned. In cases where cur- enth-day Adventists," was chosen in 1860, rent reports were not received, previous and in 1903 the denominational headquarters official and personnel rolls have been re- offices were moved from Battle Creek, Mich., tained or adjusted to the best information to Washington, D.C. available. Below appeared data summarized From 1901 to the close of 1961, 9,406 mis- largely from the 1961 Statistical Report, the sionaries were sent out for service in all one last issued at this date. larger countries of the world and in many The number of churches and the church islands of the sea. At the close of this period membership in each of the conferences in Seventh-day Adventists report 928 languages North America, as well as those outside of and dialects in which the gospel message is North America, are the figures published in being or has been proclaimed. the latest available Annual Statistical Re- The membership of the 13,369 Seventh-day port. Populations of conferences in North Adventist churches throughout the world was America are based on the 1960 census or 1,307,892 at the close of 1961. There were 74 latest figures available; and population fig- union conferences and missions, 368 local ures for other fields have been furnished conferences and organized mission fields, and largely from the Divisions covering their 699 institutions. Evangelistic and institutional particular areas. workers numbered 49,501; of this number Following the classification order of 18,911 were in North America and 30,590 in workers in the General Conference Working other countries. Policy, those persons who carry Missionary Tithes and offerings contributed in 1961 by Credentials are placed immediately following Seventh-day Adventists reached the highest the Ordained-Minister groups in the confer- total ever raised by the denomination in ence and mission sections of the Yearbook. any one year. This total was $105,510,122.35, The Directory of Workers lists the names or a per capita contribution of 84.73 for the and addresses of ordained and licensed min- world membership. In North America alone isters and workers holding Missionary Cre- the per capita giving in tithes and offerings was $251.86. dentials and Bible Instructors Credentials. A The 1961 Statistical Report showed that separate index of principal workers em- there were 42 Seventh-day Adventist publish- ployed in educational, publishing and med- ing houses and branches with book and peri- ical institutions is also given. odical sales amounting to $24,933,768.71. The Seventh-day Adventist denomination These publishing houses employed 2,120 was organized May 21, 1863, with a con- persons in producing this literature and stituency of 125 churches, and 3,500 mem- 3,670 literature evangelists were engaged in bers. The work was largely confined to North its distribution. America until the year 1874, when the first Enrollment in the 23,239 Sabbath Schools missionary, Elder J. N. Andrews, was sent totaled 1,814,719 and Sabbath School Offerings to Switzerland. Gradually other countries to missions for 1961 amounted to $8,499,- were entered. In 1886 a minister went to 280.28. Sanitariums, hospitals and clinics num- Russia, the first non-Protestant country in bering 239 were engaged in ministering to the which this work was started. The schooner sick, with 13,035 physicians. nurses and other "Pitcairn" was launched in San Francisco attendants caring for 270,696 house patients Bay on July 28, 1890, and was soon pre- in the institutions and furnishing 2,970,428 pared to carry groups of missionaries to var- additional treatments and medical services. ious Pacific islands. In 1894 Seventh-day Ad- There were 4,458 elementary schools and ventist workers first entered a heathen land, 360 secondary and advanced schools with opening a mission in Matabeleland, South 12,790 teachers employed, and an enrollment Africa. South America was entered the same of 300,503 students. At the close of the 1960- year, and Japan in 1896. 1961 school year, 1,203 of these students en- Although publishing and the distribution tered some branch of the denomination's of literature had been a major factor in the work. development of the Advent cause from its Property value of all organizations and beginning, the first regular publishing house institutions connected with the Seventh-day was incorporated in 1861 at Battle Creek, Adventist denomination. including churches, Mich., under the name of the Seventh-day was $477,255,860.65 at the beginning of 1961. Adventist Publishing Association. The Ad- The total amount of tithes and offerings vent Review and Sabbath Herald was first contributed by the membership since the published in 1850 at Paris, Maine: the organization of the General Conference of Youth's Instructor at Rochester, N.Y., in Seventh-day Adventists in 1863 to the close 1852; and the Signs of the Times at Oakland, of 1961 was $1,454,830,232.12. Literature sales Calif. in 1874. In 1866 the Health Reform for the same period is registered at $438,601,- Institute, later the Battle Creek Sanitarium, 651.83. 4 FUNDAMENTAL BELIEFS OF SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS Seventh-day Adventists hold certain fun- ence is wrought by the divine agency of the damental beliefs, the principal features of Holy Spirit, who convinces of sin and leads which, together with a portion of the scrip- to the Sin-Bearer, inducting the believer into tural references upon which they are based, the new covenant relationship, where the law may be summarized as follows: of God is written on his heart, and through 1. That the Holy Scriptures of the Old and the enabling power of the indwelling Christ, New Testaments were given by inspiration his life is brought into couformity to the of God, contain an all-sufficient revelation of divine precepts. The honor and merit of this His will to men, and are the only unerring wonderful transformation belong wholly to rule of faith and practice. 2 Tim. 3:15-17. Christ. 1 John 2:1, 2; 3:4; Rom. 3:20; 5:8-10; 2. That the Godhead, or Trinity, consists 7:7; Eph. 2:8-10; 3:17; Gal. 2:20; Heb. 8:8-12. of the Eternal Father, a personal, spiritual 9. That God "only hath immortality." 1 Being, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, Tim. 6:15. Mortal man possesses a nature in- infinite in wisdom and love; the Lord Jesus herently sinful and dying. Eternal life is the Christ, the Son of the Eternal Father, gift of God through faith in Christ. Rom. through whom all things were created and 6:23. "He that hath the Son hath life." through whom the salvation of the redeemed 1 John 5:12. Immortality is bestowed upon hosts will be accomplished; the Holy Spirit, the righteous at the second coming of Christ, the third person of the Godhead, the great when the righteous dead are raised from the regenerating power in the work of redemp- grave and the living righteous translated to tion. Matt. 28:19. meet the Lord. Then it is that those ac- 3. That Jesus Christ is very God, being of counted faithful "put on immortality." 1 Cor. the same nature and essence as the Eternal 15:51-55. Father. While retaining His divine nature 10. That the condition of man in death is He took upon Himself the nature of the hu- one of unconsciousness. That all men, good man family, lived on the earth as a man, and evil alike, remain in the grave from exemplified in His life as our Example the death to the resurrection. Ecc. 9:5, 6; Ps. principles of righteousness, attested His re- 146:3, 4; John 5:28, 29. lationship to God by many mighty miracles, 11. That there shall be a resurrection both died for our sins on the cross, was raised of the just and of the unjust. The resurrec- from the dead, and ascended to the Father, tion of the just will take place at the second where He ever lives to make intercession coming of Christ; the resurrection of the un- for us.

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