General Conference of Seventh-dayAdventists 6840 Eastern Avenue, NW, Washington, DC20012, USA Compiled b, Office of Archives and Statistics F. Donald Yost Director STATISTICAL REPORT of Seventh-day Adventist Conferences, Missions, and Institutions in the World Field For the Year Ending December 31,1980 A WORD ABOUT THIS REPORT Territorial Changes,-In :North America the Central Union and the Northern Union were New Terminology end Categories,-The North American Division has recently authorized combined and some of their local conferences were combined during 1980. This newly named two new categories of workers: credentieled commissioned minister and licensed commissioned Mid-America Union appears in this report. minister. In this first year for these categories, we have not prepared new columns but have simply The new Africa-Indian Ocean Division did not begin functioning until January 1, 1981. indicated the presence of the commissioned minister in a footnote (see pages 15 and 21). Its work will be fully represented in the next "Annual Statistical Report." As noted last year the term "elementary schools" has bean changed to "primary schools," conforming to usage common in most pate of the world. Omission of Date,-Two unions of the Trans-Africa Division did not report their workers in sufficient detail for the table "Denominational Workers Classified by Type of Employment, 1980" on page 5. Using their "total active workers" figure along with last year's figures, we Correction. In the 1979 "Annual Statistical Report" table "General Survey of Organiza- have approximated how these workers should be classified. Any inaccuracies thus produced tions," page 2, the "Total Organizations" figure for 1979 should have reed 26,705. That line naturally cause inaccuracies in the world totals. has been corrected in this year's report. F. Donald Yost Mission Offerings.-From time to time reports of Sabbath School offerings prepared by the General Conference Sabbath School Department do not agree with figures released by the Office of Archives and Statistics. Unavoidable differences in reporting schedules and practices cause such discrepancies. In some fields where communication with the next higher organization The financial information contained in this report should be considered CONFIDENTIAL Is slow or difficult, contribution figures for this report may not coincide exactly with treasury and is not for publication or public distribution, remittance figures or with departmental reports, CHURCH MEMBERSHIP BY WORLD DIVISIONS EVANGELISTIC AND INSTITUTIONAL WORKERS 1978 19711 1980 Divisions 1978 1977 Total Total Weaken in Workers Total You Evangelistic Institutional North Outside Workers Workers Workers America North AM111101 Afre-Mideest 186,677 196,870 209,394 217,252 226,542 Australatian 122,119 127,197 132,401' 137,216 142,010 Chine* 21,168 21,188 21,168 • 21,168 21,109 ' 1883 . _ 30 36 Congregations of SCA 1870 ... 72 7 72 In U.S.3,11.* 40,000 40,000 40,000 40,000 40,000 1880... 260 260 Euro-Africa 224,398 232,081 ' 239,845 249,148 268,107 1890,.. 411 411 Far Eastern 324,216 349,148 372,740 402,087 430,313 1900... 1,500 1,500 Inter-American 479,832 519,908 581,681 608,587 646,969 1910... 4,348 3,910 8,264 North American 538,649 551,884 588,463 685,050 604430 1920 ... 6,866 6,128 • 13,081 N. Europe-West Africa 110,446 113,898 120,058 128,644 138,582 1930... 10,988 10,473 8,046 13,416 21,481 South American 377,390 400,878 431,176 466,054 ' 496,964 1940... 13,679 16,191 10,605 18,265 28,770 Southern Asia 98,439 90,214 96,339 101,657 108,929 1950 . - 17,959 20,988 14,100 24,827 38,927 Trans-Africa 291,273 308,614 327,281 352,349 369,464 1960,.. 18,362 30,528 19,258 29,634 48,890 1970... 21,702 44,255 29,339 38,818 65,957* Totals 2,810,51113 2,949,768 3,117,535 3,300,181 3,490,518 1978... 31,101" 47,656" ' 35,390 43,267** 78,657* 1977... 28,992 . 30,470 34,300 45,162 79,462* *Latest available figures. 1978,.. 29,868 60,406 33,077 48,987 80,074* 1679.., 30,640 57,103 38,787 48,950 87,743* 1980 ... 31,278 81,638 41,798 61,114 92,912* -• , , *Honorary retired workers not included. **Using 1976 figures for ONSAuthern Asia DivIrion. PERCENT OF INCREASE BY DECADES . GENERAL SURVEY OF ORGANIZATIONS World Percent hy . Year Increase ' Members • Dummies Union Lecel Conferences Conferences Organized Primary Total Year and and Churches Schools Institutions Organizations 1883 3,500 ,Mbslons Missions 1870 5,440 1,940 55.43 1880 15,570 10,130 186,21 1890 29,711 14,141 90.82 1883. ., 6 126 1 132 1900 75,767 46,058 165.01 1870. .. 11 178 2 192 1910 104,526 28,759 37,98 1880,. 32 640 5 677 1920 186,450 80,924 77.42 1890.., 41 1,016 15 1,073 1930 314,263 128,803 69.45 1900. .. 2 97 1,892 58 2,049 1940 504,752 180,499 80,62 1910... 26 196 2,769 594 188 3,773 1950 756,712 251,960 49,92 1920... 46 301 4,541 828 183 5,899 1960 1,246,125 488,419 64.64 ... 71 430 6,741 1,977 399 9,617 1970 2,061,864 806,739 64.79 1940... 69 330 8,924 2,626 521 12,470 1976 2,810,606 144,122 1950... 84 370 10,237 4,155 521 15,363 1977 2$49,758 139,152 1960.,, 74 358 12,975 4,463 887 18,545 1978 • 3,117,635 167,777 1970,.. 76 378 16,505 4,040 910 21,909 1979 3,308,191 190,656 1976... 78 372 19,225 3,393 1,077 24,145 1680 3,480,518 172,327 53.87 1977... 78 376 19,781 3,573 1,105 24,893 1978... 83 370 20,446 3,896 1,278 26,071 Total Increase, 1883-1900 72,281 1979.,, 83 378 21,061 3,823 1,360 28,706 Tote! Increase, 19014950 878,524 1980... 81 376 21,655 3,849 1,489 27,350 Total Increase, 1951-1980 2,678,798 CHURCH BUILDINGS, VALUE, AND SEATING CAPACITY REGULAR NEW WORKERS ACCEPTING CALLS Year Buildings Value Sewing OUTSIDE THE HOME DIVISION* 1902 847 1907 1,172 1,331,330 180,576 1901.1910 736 1974 342 1910 1,258 1,721,178 201,121 1911-1920 1 209 1975 340 1920 1,717 4,444,062 271,121 19211930 / 1 873 1976 340 1930 2,788 9,285,740 456,979 1931-1840 1 076 1977 350 1640 4,434 11,283,298 664,838 19414950 1,944 1978 386 1950 5,863 33,580,237 893,175 1961-1980 2,489 1979 283 1960 8,652 92,262,764 1,437,661 1981-1970 3 476 1990 368 1970 12,886 235,801,582 2,298,278 1976 16,098 617,229,612 2,840,150 14,978 1977 16,832 601,314,441 2,783,801 Total since teat 1978 17,508 779,959,413 1,980,131 *Not Including children or workers returning from furlough. 1979 18,598 896,809,952 3,495,320 BeginninD 1978 IntradiAsion workers included. 1980 18,998 922,178,815 3,653,886 FIGURES on, 1980-1983 1980-1983 the Inter-American Division submitted o the General Conference showing contributions at a gure than the amounts given in the local churches. The ivision was reporting only the amounts remitted to it els. n remittances through treasury channels and contributions s occurred because several nations of the Inter-American ted the transfer of money out of the country. ision treasury redid the annual report forms (Forms S- ctually contributed in the churches without regard for ld be forwarded to the next higher organization. Some ave been made for other reasons. ect figures, including revised world totals, appears with vision tables in this Annual Statistical Report. A revisions can be found in the binder of statistical -4t) housed in the General Conference Archives. d Statistics SDA STATISTICAL REPORT FOR 1980 3 SESSIONS OF THE GENERAL CONFERENCE OF Secretaries (Cont.) SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS Name Term of Service Session Delegates Date of Session Where Held 11. L. A. Hoopes February 19, 1897 to April 2, 1901 12. H. E. Osborne April 2, 1901 to April 11,1903 13. W. A. Spicer April 11,1903 to May 11, 1922 1 20 May 20, 1863 Battle Creek, Mich. 14. A. G. Daniells May 11, 1922 to May 27, 1926 2 20 May 18,1864 Battle Creek, Mich. 15. C. K. Meyers May 27, 1926 to October 17, 1933 3 21 May 17,1865 Battle Creek, Mich. 16. M. E.Kern October 22, 1933 to May 26, 1936 4 19 May IS, 1866 Battle Creek, Mich. 17, E. D. Dick May 26, 1936 to September 19, 1952 5 18 May 14,1867 Battle Creek, Mich. 18. 0. E. Rebok September 19, 1952 to May 24, 1954 19. W. R. Beach 6 15 May 12,1868 Battle Creek, Mich. May 24, 1954 to June 12, 1970 20. C. O. Franz June 12, 1970 to April 16, 1980 7 16 May 18, 1869 Battle Creek, Mich. 21. G. Ralph Thompson April 16, 1980 to 8 22 March 15, 1870 Battle Creek, Mich. 9 17 February 7,1871 Battle Creek, Mich. Treasurers 10 14 December 29, 1871 Battle Creek, Mich. 11 18 March 11, 1873 Battle Creak, Mich.