Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches 2010 - Cokesbury
Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches 2010 - Cokesbury
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,