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Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches 2010 - Cokesbury

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US RELIGIOUS BODIES<br />

Headquarters<br />

12501 Old Columbia Pike, Silver Spring, MD<br />

20904-6600, Tel. (301)680-6000<br />

Media Contact, Dir., Communication, Rajmund<br />

Dabrowski<br />

Email: kjones@gc.adventist.org<br />

Website: www.adventist.org<br />

WORLD-WIDE OFFICERS<br />

Pres., Jan Paulsen<br />

Sec., Matthew A. Bediako<br />

Treas., Robert E. Lemon<br />

WORLD-WIDE DEPARTMENTS<br />

Adventist Chaplaincy Ministries, Dir., Gary R<br />

Councell<br />

Children’s Ministries, Dir., Linda Mei Lin Koh<br />

Education, Dir.,C. Garl<strong>and</strong> Dulan<br />

Communication, Dir., Rajmund Dabrowski<br />

Family Ministries, Dir., Ronald M. Flowers<br />

Health Ministries, Dir., Allan R. H<strong>and</strong>ysides<br />

Ministerial Assoc., Dir., —<br />

Public Affairs & Religious Liberty, Dir., John Graz<br />

Publishing, Dir., Howard F Faigao<br />

Sabbath School & Personal Ministries, Jonathan<br />

Kuntaraf<br />

Stewardship, Dir., Erika Puni<br />

Trust Services, Jeffrey K. Wilson<br />

Women’s Ministries, Heather-Dawn Small<br />

Youth, Baraka G. Mug<strong>and</strong>a<br />

NORTH AMERICAN OFFICERS<br />

Pres., Don C. Schneider<br />

Vice Pres., Larry D Blackmer; Debra Brill; Alvin<br />

M. Kibble; R. Ernest Castillo<br />

Sec., G. Alex<strong>and</strong>er Bryant<br />

Treas., Thomas Evans<br />

Assoc. Treas., C. Michael Park; Delbert L.<br />

Johnson; Kenneth W. Osborn, Marshall L<br />

Chase, Patricia L. Horst<br />

NORTH AMERICAN ORGANIZATIONS<br />

Atlantic Union Conf., P.O. Box 1189, South Lancaster,<br />

MA 01561-1189; Pres., Donald G. King<br />

Canada, Seventh-day Adventist Church in<br />

Canada (see Dir. 4)<br />

Columbia Union Conf., 5427 Twin Knolls Rd.,<br />

Columbia, MD 21045; Pres., David Weigley<br />

Lake Union Conf., P.O. Box 287, Berrien<br />

Springs, MI 49103; Pres., Don Livesayt<br />

Mid-America Union Conf., P.O. Box 6128,<br />

Lincoln, NE 68506; Pres., Roscoe J. Howard III<br />

North Pacific Union Conf., Pres., 5709 N 20th<br />

Street, Ridgefield, WA 98642-7742; Pres.,<br />

Max C. Torkelson II<br />

Pacific Union Conf., P.O. Box 5005, Westlake<br />

Village, CA 91359; Pres., Ricardo B. Graham<br />

Southern Union Conf., P.O. Box 849, Decatur,<br />

GA 30031; Pres., Gordon L. Retzer<br />

Southwestern Union Conf., P.O. Box 4000,<br />

Burleson, TX 76097; Pres., Max A. Trevino<br />

Periodicals<br />

ADRA Works, The Adventist Chaplain, Adventist<br />

Review, ASI Magazine, Children’s Friend,<br />

Christian Record, College <strong>and</strong> University<br />

154<br />

Dialogue, Collegiate Quarterly, Cornerstone<br />

Youth Resource Magazine, Cornerstone<br />

Connections, Elder’s Digest, Encounter, For<br />

God <strong>and</strong> Country, Geoscience Reports,<br />

Evangelist, Message, Ministry, Mission,<br />

Origins, Our Little Friend, Primary Treasure,<br />

Publishing Mirror, Shabbat Shalom,<br />

Shepherdess International Journal, Signs <strong>of</strong><br />

the Times, Transmissions, Vibrant Life, Voice<br />

<strong>of</strong> Prophecy News, Winner, Women <strong>of</strong> Spirit,<br />

Young <strong>and</strong> Alive, Youth Ministry ACCENT<br />

Seventh Day Baptist General<br />

Conference, USA <strong>and</strong> Canada<br />

Seventh Day Baptists emerged during the<br />

English Reformation, organizing their first<br />

churches in the mid-1600s. The first Seventh Day<br />

Baptists <strong>of</strong> record in America were Stephen <strong>and</strong><br />

Ann Mumford, who emigrated from Engl<strong>and</strong> in<br />

1664. Beginning in 1665 several members <strong>of</strong> the<br />

First Baptist Church at Newport, R.I. began<br />

observing the seventh day Sabbath, or Saturday. In<br />

1671, five members, together with the Mumfords,<br />

formed the first Seventh Day Baptist Church in<br />

America at Newport.<br />

Beginning about 1700, other Seventh Day<br />

Baptist churches were established in New Jersey<br />

<strong>and</strong> Pennsylvania. From these three centers, the<br />

denomination grew <strong>and</strong> exp<strong>and</strong>ed westward. They<br />

founded the Seventh Day Baptist General<br />

Conference in 1802.<br />

The organization <strong>of</strong> the denomination reflects<br />

an interest in home <strong>and</strong> foreign missions, publications<br />

<strong>and</strong> education. Women have been encouraged<br />

to participate. From the earliest years religious<br />

freedom has been championed for all <strong>and</strong><br />

the separation <strong>of</strong> church <strong>and</strong> state, advocated.<br />

Seventh Day Baptists are members <strong>of</strong> the Baptist<br />

World Alliance <strong>and</strong> Baptist Joint Committee. The<br />

Seventh Day Baptist World Federation has 17<br />

member conferences on six continents.<br />

Headquarters<br />

Seventh Day Baptist Center, 3120 Kennedy Rd.,<br />

P.O. Box 1678, Janesville, WI 53547-1678,<br />

Tel. (608)752-5055 Fax (608)752-7711 Media<br />

Contact, Ex. Dir., Robert Appel Financial Dir.,<br />

Morgan D. Shepard<br />

Email: sdbgen@inwave.com<br />

Website: www.seventhdaybaptist.org<br />

OTHER ORGANIZATIONS<br />

Seventh Day Baptist Missionary Society, Exec.<br />

Dir., Kirk Looper, 119 Main St., Westerly, RI<br />

02891<br />

Seventh Day Bapt. Bd. <strong>of</strong> Christian Ed., Exec.<br />

Dir., Rev. Andrew Camenga, Box 115, Alfred<br />

Station, NY 14803<br />

Women’s Soc. <strong>of</strong> the Gen. Conference, Pres.,<br />

Mrs. Marjorie Jacob, P.O. Box 122, Pomona<br />

Park, FL 32181-0122<br />

<strong>American</strong> Sabbath Tract & Comm. Council, Dir.<br />

<strong>of</strong> Communications, Rev. Kevin J. Butler,

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