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YEAR BOOK of the Seventh-day Adventist Denomination The Official Directories 1.9 44 Published by the REVIEW El HERALD PUBLISHING ASSOCIATION TAKOMA PARK. WASHINGTON, D. C. PRINTED IN THE U. S. A. Critical World. Conditions call for clriser exchanges between workers on emer- gency methods, peculiar problems, adaptations, and safeguards. ♦A 48page maga;ine, covering all •phases of evangelistic and pastoral: endeavor, both in homeland and mission fields. • A medium which 'meets the varying need of evangelists, pas- ' rots, radio speakers, Bible instrtictors, overseas missionaries and medical wotters college and acatIeiny teachers, gospel rousitians, lay preachers; and theological students; • No English-reading worker, ministerial student, orlay preacner, ,Should. be without the monthly visits of this journal. • If .you have not seen The Ministry recently,_ send for a free sample copy. You will find it Stimulative and In e Unity- of Our World Work requites ihe constant guiding counsels of our most experienced leaders Single. SubseOPtiOn, $2.00 :Special Club Rates of yotix 11401E AND tilt4 HOUSE, or of the. REVIEW :Mei HERALD; PUBLISHING ASSOCIATION Tea' PM* - - , Was,Atea. D.C.. U.S.A. 1944 YEAR BOOK OF THE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST DENOMINATION Comprising a Directory of the General Conference, Union and Local Conferences, Mission Fields, Educational Institutions, Publishing Houses, Peri- odicals, Sanitariums, Hospitals and Dispensaries. c3'..,:f7::•- /4-,i/ i_.`.'. \ .(Recom/ -, — , 1 a - A PREPARED BY CLAUDE CONARD, Statistical Secretary of the General Conference . PUBLISHED BY REVIEW AND HERALD PUBLISHING ASSOCIATION WASHINGTON, D. C. PRINTED IN THE U. S. A. CONTENTS Fundamental Beliefs 4 General Conference and Departments Divisions : North America 21 Australasian 65 Central European 73 China 85 Far Eastern 102 Inter-American 116 Northern European 130 South American 139 Southern African 154 Southern Asia 177 Southern European 190 General Conference Missions Division y 204 Union of Socialist Soviet Republics 211 Institutions : Educational 212 Publishing Houses 255 Periodicals Issued 267 Medical 282 Dispensaries and Treatment Rooms 294 Food Companies 297 Statistical Tables 299 Constitution and By-Laws 310 Ministerial Directory 316 Obituary Record 393 Index 397 2 Preface A directory of the conferences, mission fields and institutions connected with the Seventh-day Adventist denomination is given in the following pages. Adminis- trative and workers' lists have been furnished by the organizations concerned. In cases where current reports were not received, previous official and personnel rolls have been retained or adjusted to the best information available. The data appearing below is summarized largely from the 1942 Statistical Report, the one last issued at this date. The number of churches and the church membership in each of the confer- ences in North America are those reported at the close of the third quarter, 1943. In fields outside of North America the church and membership statistics at the close of 1942 have been used except in a few instances where the organizations themselves have reported later figures. Populations of conferences in North Amer- ica are based on the 1940 census reports; and population figures for other fields have been furnished largely from the different Division or Union offices, Owing to uncertainty in many conferences in North America regarding the division of work- ers' lists between missionary credentials and missionary licenses, and because of the ambiguity of terms relating to these groups, the names of the two classes of missionary workers have been listed in the conferences this year under the dual heading of "Credentialed and Licensed Missionaries." It is hoped that these lists can be fully separated for the 1945 Year Book. The Seventh-day Adventist denomination was organized May 21, 1863, with a constituency of 125 churches and 3,500 members. The work was largely confined to North America until the year 1874, when the first missionary, Elder J. N. Andrews, was sent to Switzerland. Gradually other countries were entered. In 1886 a minister went to Russia, the first non-Protestant country in which this work was started. The schooner "Pitcairn" was launched in •San Francisco Bay on July 28, 1890, and was soon prepared to carry groups of missionaries to various Pacific islands. In 1894 Seventh-day Adventist workers first entered a heathen land, opening a mission in Matabeleland, South Africa. South America was entered the same year, and Japan in 1896. Since 1901 to the close of 1942, 4,818 missionaries have been sent out for mis- sion service in various lands, occupying all of the larger countries of the world and many of the islands of the sea. At the close of 1941, Seventh-day Adventists were conducting work in 413 countries, islands, and island groups. Twenty-eight thousand eight hundred seventy-nine evangelistic and institutional workers were using in their work 810 languages and modes of speech. The membership of the 9,212 Seventh-day Adventist churches throughout the world in 1942 was 535,134. There were 68 union conferences and missions, 136 local conferences, 194 regularly organized mission fields, and 546 institutions. Of the 28,879 laborers, 10,794 were in North America, and 18,085 in other countries. The funds in tithes and offerings contributed in 1942 by Seventh-day Advent- ists were the largest ever raised by the denomination during any one year. The amount of $20,109,148.56 was a per capita contribution of $37.57 for every mem- ber in the world field. In North America alone the per capita giving in tithes and offerings was $77.14. The Statistical Report showed that there were 83 Seventh-day Adventist pub- lishing houses and branches, whose book and periodical retail sales in 1942 were $5,467,664.99. These publishing houses employed 1,293 workers in producing this literature, and 3,240 more were engaged in its distribution. Seventh-day Ad- ventist literature has been printed in about 200 languages, and there were 313 periodicals issued. The enrollment in the 14,436 Sabbath schools was 641,559, and the annual Sabbath school contributions were $2,327,770.07. Sanitariums, hospitals, and treatment rooms, to the number of 167, engaged in the care of the sick, with 6,685 physicians, nurses, and other attendants, who treated 829,568 patients dur- ing 1942. There were 2,932 elementary schools, and 267 secondary and advanced schools, with 5,926 teachers employed, and an enrollment of 124,352 pupils. At the close of the 1941-42 school year 1,292 students entered some line of denominational work. The property value of all organizations and •institutions connected with the Seventh-day Adventist denomination, including churches, at the close of 1942, was $74,785,933.08. The total amount of funds in tithes and offerings contributed since the organ- ization of the Seventh-day Adventist General Conference in 1863 to the close of 1942 was $330,136,290.70. Literature sales for the same period were registered as $136,264,973.68. 3 FUNDAMENTAL BELIEFS OF SEVENTII-DAY ADVENTISTS Seventh-day Adventists hold certain fundamental beliefs, the principal features of which, together with a portion of the scriptural references upon which they are based, may be summarized as follows: 1. That the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments were given by inspiration of God, contain an all-sufficient revelation of His will to men, and are the only unerring rule of faith and practice. 2 Tim. 3:15-17. 2. That the Godhead, or Trinity, consists of the Eternal Father, a personal, spiritual Being, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, infinite in wisdom and love; the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Eternal Father, through whom all things were created and through whom the salvation of the redeemed hosts will be accomplished ; the Holy Spirit, the third person of the Godhead, the great regenerating power in the work of redemption. Matt. 28:19. 3. That Jesus Christ is very God, being of the same nature and essence as the Eternal Father. While retaining His divine nature He took upon Himself the nature of the human family, lived on the earth as a man, exemplified in His life as our Example the principles of righteousness, attested His relationship to God by many mighty miracles, died for our sins on the cross, was raised from the dead, and ascended to the Father, where He ever lives to make intercession for us. John 1:1, 14 ; Heb. 2 :9-18 ; 8 :1, 2 ; 4 :14-16 ; 7 :25. 4. That every person in order to obtain salvation must experience the new birth ; that this comprises an entire transformation of life and character by the recreative power of God through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. John 3:16 ; Matt. 18:3 ; Acts 2:37-39. 5. That baptism is an ordinance of the Christian church and should follow repentance and forgiveness of sins. By its observance faith is shown in the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ. That the proper form of baptism is by immer- sion. Rom. 6 :1-6 ; Acts 16:30-33. 6. That the will of God as it relates to moral conduct is comprehended in His law of ten commandments ; that these are great moral, unchangeable precepts, binding upon all men, in every age. Ex. 20:1-17. 7. That the fourth commandment of this unchangeable law requires the observ- ance of the seventh day Sabbath. This holy institution is at the same time a memorial of creation and a sign of sanctification, a sign of the believer's rest from his own works of sin, and his entrance into the rest of soul which Jesus promises to those who come to Him. Gen. 2:1-3 ; Ex. 20:8-11 ; 31:12-17 ; Heb.