/961 Zjeaffc6oak 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 H. W. Klaser, Statistical Secretary General Conference / 7"`::..- • L_ :I--.....\ (41-2* / (Reconsilu d Ill 1:•,ui'\ 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 By-Laws 6 General Conference and Departments 12 Divisions: North American 23 Australasian 74 Central European 90 China 98 Far Eastern 98 Inter-American 119 Middle East 138 Northern European 142 South American 157 Southern African 173 Southern Asia 191 Southern European 202 Union of Socialist Soviet Republics 222 Institutions: Educational 223 Food Companies 283 Medical 288 Dispensaries and Clinics 308 Old People's Homes and Orphanages 311 Publishing Houses 312 Periodicals Issued 322 Advertisers 334 Statistical Tables 335 Countries Where S.D.A. Work Is Established 337 Necrology 350 Index of Institutional Workers 351 Directory of Workers 387 Special Days and Offerings for 1961 520 General Index 521 3 Preface A directory of the conferences, mission was established. The first denominational fields and institutions connected with the school was opened in 1872. Trace 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, Michi- tained or adjusted to the best information gan, to Washington, D.C. available. Below appears data summarized From 1901 to the close of 1959, 8,880 mis- largely from the 1959 Statistical Report, the sionaries have been sent out for service in all one last issued at this date. larger countries of the world and in many is- The number of churches and the church lands of the sea. Evangelistic and institu- membership in each of the conferences in tional workers numbering 46,816 at the close North America, as well as those outside of of 1959 were using 791 languages and modes North America, are the figures published in of speech in their gospel service. the latest available Annual Statistical Re- The membership of the 12,707 Seventh-day port. Populations of conferences in North Adventist churches throughout the world America are based on the 1960 census or was 1,194,070 at the close of 1959. There latest figures available; and population fig- were 72 union conferences and missions, ures for other fields have been furnished 343 local conferences and organized mission largely from the Divisions covering their fields, and 637 institutions. Of the 46,816 particular areas. workers, 18.319 were in North America and Following the classification order of 28,497 in other countries. workers in the General Conference Working Policy, those persons who carry Missionary Tithes and offerings contributed in 1959 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 any ence and mission sections of the Yearbook. one year. This total was $90,473,751.90 or a The Directory of Workers lists the names per capita contribution of $78.72 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 dentials and Bible Instructors Credentials. A was $227.30. separate index of principal workers em- The 1959 Statistical Report showed that ployed in educational, publishing and med- there were 44 Seventh-day Adventist publish- ical institutions is also given. ing houses and branches with book and periodical sales amounting to $21,097.125.40. The Seventh-day Adventist denomination These publishing houses employed 1,955 per- was organized May 21, 1863, with a con- sons in producing this literature and 3,417 stituency of 125 churches, and 3,500 mem- literature evangelists were engaged in its dis- bers. The work was largely confined to North tribution. America until the year 1874, when the first Enrollment in the 22,015 Sabbath schools missionary, Elder J. N. Andrews, was sent totaled 1,585,879 and Sabbath school offerings to Switzerland. Gradually other countries to missions for 1959 amounted to $7,413.172.14. were entered. In 1886 a minister went to Sanitariums, hospitals and clinics numbering Russia, the first non-Protestant country in 210 were engaged in ministering to the sick, which this work was started. The schooner with 12,628 physicians, nurses and other at- "Pitcairn" was launched in San Francisco tendants caring for the 256,644 house patients Bay on July 28, 1890, and was soon pre- pared to carry groups of missionaries to var- in the institutions and furnishing 2,972.378 ious Pacific islands. In 1894 Seventh-day Ad- additional treatments and medical services. ventist workers first entered a heathen land, There were 4,426 elementary schools and opening a mission in Matabeleland, South 333 secondary and advanced schools with Africa. South America was entered the same 11,728 teachers employed, and an enrollment year, and Japan in 1896. of 276,979 pupils. At the close of the 1958- Although publishing and the distribution 1959 school year, 814 students entered some of literature had been a major factor in the branch of the denomination's work. development of the Advent cause from its Property value of all organizations and in- beginning, the first regular publishing house stitutions 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 $405,175,009.93 at the beginning of 1959. 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 or- published in 1850 at Paris, Maine; the ganization of the General Conference of Sev- Youth's Instructor at Rochester, N. Y., in enth-day Adventists in 1863 to the close of 1852; and the Signs of the Times at Oakland, 1959 was $1,249,417,755.21. Literature sales Calif„ in 1874. In 1866 the Health Reform for the same period is registered at $390,124,- Institute, later the Battle Creek Sanitarium, 750.54. 4 FUNDAMENTAL BELIEFS OF SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS Seventh-day Adventists hold certain fun- Holy Spirit, who convinces of sin and leads damental beliefs, the principal features of to the Sin-Bearer, inducting the believer into which, together with a portion of the scrip- the new covenant relationship, where the law tural references upon which they are based, of God is written on his heart, and through may be summarized as follows: the enabling power of the indwelling Christ, 1. That the Holy Scriptures of the Old and his life is -brought into conformity to the New testaments were given by inspiration divine precepts. The honor and merit of this of God, contain an all-sufficient revelation of wonderful transformation belong wholly to His will to men, and are the only unerring Christ. 1 John 2:1, 2; 3:4,• Rom. 3:20; 5:8-10; rule of faith and practice. 2 Tim. 3:15-17. 7:7; Eph. 2:8-10; 3:17; Gal. 2:20; Heb. 8:8-12. 2. That the Godhead, or Trinity, consists 9. That God "only bath immortality." 1 of the Eternal Father, a personal, spiritual Tim. 6:15. Mortal man possesses a nature in- Being, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, herently sinful and dying. Eternal life is the infinite in wisdom and love; the Lord Jesus gift of God through faith in Christ. Rom. Christ, the Son of the Eternal Father, 6:23. "He that hath the Son bath life." through whom all things were created and 1 John 5:12. Immortality is bestowed upon through whom the salvation of the redeemed the righteous at the second coming of Christ, hosts will be accomplished; the Holy Spirit, when the righteous dead are raised from the the third person of the Godhead, the great grave and the living righteous translated to regenerating power in the work of redemp- meet the Lord. Then it is that those ac- tion. Matt. 28:19. counted faithful "put on immortality." 1 Cor. 3. That Jesus Christ is very God, being of 15:51-55. the same nature and essence as the Eternal 10. That the condition of man in death is Father. While retaining His divine nature one of unconsciousness. That all men, good He took upon Himself the nature of the hu- and evil alike, remain in the grave from man family, lived on the earth as a man, death to the resurrection. Eccl. 9:5, 6; Ps. exemplified in His life as our Example the 146:3, 4; John 5:28, 29. principles of righteousness, attested His re- 11. That there shall be a resurrection both lationship to God by many mighty miracles, of the just and of the unjust. The resurrec- died for our sins on the cross, was raised tion of the just will take place at the second from the dead, and ascended to the Father, coming of Christ; the resurrection of the un- where He ever lives to make intercession just will take place a thousand years later, for us.