YEARBOOK 1995 A Directory of The General Conference, World Divisions, Union and Local Conferences and Missions, Educational Institutions, Food Industries, Health-Care Institutions, Media Centers, Publishing Houses, Periodicals, and Denominational Workers Printed in the U.S.A. by the REVIEW AND HERALD PUBLISHING ASSOCIATION HAGERSTOWN, MD 21740 For the Office of Archives and Statistics GENERAL CONFERENCE OF SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS 12501 OLD COLUMBIA PIKE SILVER SPRING, MARYLAND 20904-6600 Contents Preface and Statistics 4 Fundamental Beliefs of Seventh-day Adventists 5 Constitution and Bylaws 9 General Conference and Departments 15 Divisions: Africa-Indian Ocean 33 Eastern Africa 57 Euro-Africa 77 Euro-Asia 101 Far Eastern 111 Inter-American 153 North American 189 Healthcare Corporations 250 South American 255 South Pacific 287 Southern Asia 307 Trans-European 319 East Asia Association 337 Middle East Union 337 Southern Africa Union 340 China 347 Presidents, Secretaries, and Treasurers of G.C. 348 Institutions: Educational Institutions 349 Food Industries 457 Healthcare Institutions 463 Clinics and Dispensaries 494 Nursing Homes and Retirement Centers 500 Orphanages and Children's Homes 502 Media Centers 503 Publishing Houses 507 Periodicals 519 Necrology 532 List of Countries With Their Organizational Locations 535 Postal Abbreviations 538 Index of Institutional Workers 539 Directory of Workers 617 General Index 991 3 Preface to the 1995 Edition Scope of the Yearbook went in 1886. On October 20, 1890, the schooner A world directory of the Seventh-day Adventist Pitcairn was launched at San Francisco and was soon Church is given in the following pages. It includes the engaged in carrying missionaries to the Pacific islands. General Conference and its international divisions, Seventh-day Adventist workers first entered non- union and local conferences and missions, and related Christian countries in 1894—Gold Coast (Ghana), West institutions. Institutions that are managed but not fully Africa, and Matabeleland, South Africa. The same year owned and operated by church entities are not included. saw missionaries entering South America, and in 1896 The information has been furnished by the organizations there were representatives in Japan. The Church now themselves; but in cases where current reports have not has established work in 209 countries. been received, the most recent previous records have The publication and distribution of literature were been retained or adjusted. major factors in the growth of the Advent Movement. In the conference and mission sections, employees The Advent Review and Sabbath Herald (now the Ad- are listed in the following sequence: ordained ministers ventist Review), general church paper, was launched in holding ministerial credentials, credentialed commis- Paris, Maine, in 1850; the Youth's Instructor in Roches- sioned ministers, credentialed commissioned teachers, ter, New York, in 1852; and the Signs of the Times in and credentialed missionaries. The Directory of Workers Oakland, California, in 1874. The first denominational gives the names and addresses of these workers. Institu- publishing house at Battle Creek, Michigan, began op- tional employees are listed separately in the Index of erating in 1855 and was duly incorporated in 1861 Institutional Workers. under the name of Seventh-day Adventist Publishing The data that appears below has been summarized Association. largely from the 1993 Annual Statistical Report, while The Health Reform Institute, later known as the Battle the figures for the number of churches and for church Creek Sanitarium, opened its doors in 1866, and mis- membership throughout the Yearbook are drawn from sionary society work was organized on a statewide basis official reports rendered for June 30, 1994. in 1870. The first of the Church's worldwide network of Denominational History schools was established in 1872, and 1877 saw the Seventh-day Adventists are, doctrinally, heirs of the formation of state-wide Sabbath school associations. In Millerite movement of the 1840's. Although the name 1903, the denominational headquarters was moved "Seventh-day Adventist" was chosen in 1860, the de- from Battle Creek, Michigan, to Washington, D.C., and nomination was not officially organized until May 21, in 1989 to Silver Spring, Maryland, where it continues to 1863, when the movement incluced some 125 churches form the nerve-center of an ever-expanding work. and 3,500 members. Work was largely confined to The distinctive Seventh-day Adventist message may North America until 1874 when the Church's first be summarized as "the everlasting gospel," the basic missionary, J. N. Andrews, was sent to Switzerland. Christian message of salvation through faith in Christ, in Africa was penetrated briefly in 1879 when Dr. H. P. the special setting of the threefold message of Revelation Ribton, an early convert in Italy, moved to Egypt and 14:6-12, the call to worship the Creator, "for the hour of opened a school, but the project ended when riots broke his judgment is come." This message is epitomized in out in the vicinity. The first non-Protestant Christian the phrase, "the commandments of God, and the faith of country entered was Russia, where an Adventist minister Jesus." World Statistics for 1993 (except as noted) MEMBERSHIP AND WORKERS HEALTH MINISTRY (as of June 30, 1994) Hospitals and sanitariums 148 Baptized church members 8,173,662 Clinics and Dispensaries 354 Organized churches 37,747 Nursing Homes and Retirement Centers ..... ......... 79 Ordained ministers, active 12,144 Orphanages and Children's Homes 13 Total active workers 136,539 Physicians, dentists, residents, and interns 2,820 Baptisms and professions of faith 653,864 Nurses 15,754 (July 1, 1993 to June 30, 1994) Outpatient visits 7,009,906 Assets of health-care institutions $4,805,016,874 MISSION WORK (1992 figure) Countries in which church is working (1993) .... 209 PUBLISHING WORK (Countries and areas in the world-236) Publishing houses 56 11 Number of divisions Languages in which church is working (1993) ... 713 92 Number of unions Languages, publishing in (1993) 206 Number of conferences, missions Literature evangelists 7,684 and fields 447 Missionaries sent 714 SABBATH SCHOOLS Sabbath school members 9,437,832 Sabbath schools 74,187 EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM CONTRIBUTIONS 5,530 Schools operated by church Tithe—world $743,983,762 828,833 Total enrollment North America $454,792,768 4,492 Primary schools Sabbath School—world $42,357,428 953 Secondary schools North America $20,297,241 85 Colleges and Universities Ingathering—world $12,914,885 All contributions—world $1,122,302,148 35 FOOD INDUSTRIES North America $728,482,518 4 FUNDAMENTAL BELIEFS OF SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS Seventh-day Adventists accept the Bible as their only 5. The Holy Spirit creed and hold certain fundamental beliefs to be the God the eternal Spirit was active with the Father and teaching of the Holy Scriptures. These beliefs, as set the Son in Creation, incarnation, and redemption. He forth here, constitute the church's understanding and inspired the writers of Scripture. He filled Christ's life expression of the teaching of Scripture. Revision of these with power. He draws and convicts human beings; and statements may be expected at a General Conference those who respond He renews and transforms into the session when the church is led by the Holy Spirit to a image of God. Sent by the Father and the Son to be fuller understanding of Bible truth or finds better lan- always with His children, He extends spiritual gifts to the guage in which to express the teachings of God's Holy church, empowers it to bear witness to Christ, and in Word. harmony with the Scriptures leads it into all truth. (Gen. 1:1, 2; Luke 1:35; 4:18; Acts 10:38; 2 Peter 1:21; 2 Cor. 3:18; Eph. 4:11, 12; Acts 1:8; John 14:16-18, 26; 1. The Holy Scriptures 15:26, 27; 16:7-13.) The Holy Scriptures, Old and New Testaments, are the written Word of God, given by divine inspiration 6. Creation through holy men of God who spoke and wrote as they were moved by the Holy Spirit. In this Word, God has God is Creator of all things, and has revealed in committed to man the knowledge necessary for salva- Scripture the authentic account of His creative activity. In six days the Lord made "the heaven and the earth" tion. The Holy Scriptures are the infallible revelation of and all living things upon the earth, and rested on the His will. They are the standard of character, the test of seventh day of that first week. Thus He established the experience, the authoritative revealer of doctrines, and Sabbath as a perpetual memorial of His completed the trustworthy record of God's acts in history. (2 Peter creative work. The first man and woman were made in 1:20, 21; 2 Tim. 3:16, 17; Ps. 119:105; Prov. 30:5, 6; the image of God as the crowning work of Creation, Isa. 8:20; John 17:17; 1 Thess. 2:13; Heb. 4:12.) given dominion over the world, and charged with responsibility to care for it. When the world was finished it was "very good," declaring the glory of God. (Gen. 1; 2. The Trinity 2; Ex. 20:8-11; Ps. 19:1-6; 33:6, 9; 104; Heb. 11:3.) There is one God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, a unity of three co-eternal Persons. God is immortal, all- 7. The Nature of Man powerful, all-knowing, above all, and ever present. He is infinite and beyond human comprehension, yet known Man and woman were made in the image of God with through His self-revelation. He is forever worthy of individuality, the power and freedom to think and to do. worship, adoration, and service by the whole creation. Though created free beings, each is an indivisible unity of body, mind, and spirit, dependent upon God for life (Deut.