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Adventist Health International

Adventist Health International (AHI) is a multinational, nonprofit corporation with headquarters in Loma Linda, California.

Adventist International Institute of Advanced Studies

Degrees awarded by the Department of Theological-Historical Studies are Master of Arts in Religion (MA-R) with emphases in Theological-Historical Studies; Christian Theology, Church History and Adventist Studies, and a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Theological-Historical Studies.

Alden, New York

Roswell F. Cottrell, Seventh-day Adventist Church advocate who lived in Millgrove

Allan B. Calhamer

Mr. Calhamer died of natural causes February 25, 2013, at Adventist-La Grange Memorial Hospital in La Grange, Illinois.

Antillean Adventist University

Walter J. Brown, then president of the college, provided an eye witness account for the Adventist flagship journal, the Review and Herald.

Arthur White

Arthur L. White (1907–1991), Seventh-day Adventist and authority on his grandmother Ellen White

Biblical Research Institute

It consists of four Adventist theologians working at the church headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland, and is currently (as of 2010) directed by Ángel Manuel Rodríguez.

Brassall, Queensland

The suburb contains three schools: Ipswich State High School, Brassall State School and Ipswich Seventh Day Adventist School.

Brinsmead

Robert Brinsmead (1934), Australian and controversial former Seventh-day Adventist.

Chinese Independent Churches

Pentecostalism stresses the "Baptism of the Holy Spirit" and the use of supernatural spiritual gifts such as prophecy, healing, and speaking in unknown tongues, and is fired by a strong millennialism (expecting the return of Christ at any moment; this feature was also characteristic of many others of the newer mission groups (especially Holiness and Adventist ones).

Clifford Goldstein

He is a leading figure in the Seventh-day Adventist denomination and espouses traditional Adventist beliefs.

Diane Birch

Birch attended Portland Adventist Elementary School and later, Portland Adventist Academy.

EGW

Ellen G. White, a co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church

Elizaphan Ntakirutimana

A letter addressed to Ntakirutimana by Tutsi Seventh-day Adventist pastors, which he showed to author Philip Gourevitch, provided the title for Gourevitch's 1998 book We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families.

General conference

SDARM General Conference, the governing authority for the Seventh Day Adventist Reform Movement denomination

General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, the world governing body of the Seventh-day Adventist Church

George Knight

George R. Knight (born 1941), Seventh-day Adventist Church historian

GLAA

Great Lakes Adventist Academy, a Seventh-day Adventist boarding school in Cedar Lake, Michigan, United States

Glendale Adventist Medical Center

Glendale Adventist Medical Center (GAMC) is a non-profit organization located in the Los Angeles suburb of Glendale, California, USA.

Heppenstall

Edward Heppenstall (8 May 1901 – 1994), Bible scholar and theologian of the Seventh-day Adventist Church

Ken Wood

Kenneth H. Wood (1917–2008), Seventh-day Adventist minister and author

Kennebec County, Maine

There are many churches in Kennebec county, the largest being: Baptist, Methodist, Episcopalian, Congregationalist, Unitarian, Church of the Nazarene, Church of Christ, Adventist and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons).

Kimberley Seventh-day Adventist Church

The Kimberley Seventh-day Adventist Church is a provincial heritage site in Kimberley in the Northern Cape province of South Africa.

Media ministries of the Seventh-day Adventist Church

Hope for Life is a half-hour television program from Cicero Seventh-day Adventist Church in Cicero, Indiana.

Mount Pleasant, Harare

It is the home of the University of Zimbabwe, Mount Pleasant School, North Park Primary School and Northwood Seventh Day Adventist School.

Neil Wilson

Neal C. Wilson, General Conference president of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, 1979–1990

New Market, Virginia

A number of schools are located in and around New Market including within New Market, Shenandoah Valley Academy and Shenandoah Valley Adventist Elementary School.

Ottapalam Seventh-day Adventist Higher Secondary School

Ottapalam Seventh-day Adventist Higher Secondary School is a co-educational Christian school located in Kanniyampuram, Ottapalam, Kerala, India.

Parkville, Michigan

The dedication of the Seventh-day Adventist meeting house in Parkville was on January 12, 1861, and was attended by Ellen G. White.

Paul Gordon

Paul A. Gordon (born 1930), Seventh-day Adventist and former director of the Ellen G. White Estate

Pleasant Hill, Oregon

Emerald Christian Academy, a private Seventh-Day Adventist K-10 school, is also located in Pleasant Hill.

Progressive Adventism

They also tend to question some of the denomination's 28 fundamental beliefs: with debate arising on the nature of the Trinity, perpetuity of the Law of God, the Nature of Christ, the Gift of Prophecy, Creation or observance of the seventh-day Sabbath.

Samuel Koranteng-Pipim

Besides CAMPUS (Center for Adventist Ministry to Public University Students) and the Emmanuel Institute of Evangelism, Michigan Conference's outreach school, Pipim also regularly teaches intensive courses on hermeneutics to students enrolled at, AFCOE (Amazing Facts Center of Evangelism), ARISE (A Resource Institute for Soul-winning and Evangelism), and LIFE (Lay Institute for Evangelism), supporting institutes run by Adventist supporting organizations.

In the 1990s, Pipim played a role in the Adventist debate over the Bible's authority and interpretation, an issue that came into greater prominence with the publication of Old Testament scholar Alden Thompson's Inspiration: Hard Questions, Honest Answers (1991).

Seventh-day Adventist Kinship International

The editor of the denominational magazine, Adventist Review, was a member of Sligo Church and together Sligo Church and the staff of Adventist Review sponsored a weekend AIDS Conference.

Sidney Brownsberger

The following year (1873), Adventist church leaders invited him to head the fledgling school that had been established in Battle Creek, Michigan.

South Pacific Division of Seventh-day Adventists

In the South Pacific, the Adventist Church operates four tertiary colleges and universities (Avondale College in Australia, Fulton College in Fiji, and Pacific Adventist University and Sonoma Adventist College in Papua New Guinea), and more than 250 primary and secondary schools, with a total enrollment of about 35,000.

Stephen N. Haskell

Together with two other Adventist preachers, John Corliss and Mendel Israel, he helped start the Signs Publishing Company first began as the Echo Publishing Company, in North Fitzroy, a suburb of Melbourne, which by 1889, was the third largest Seventh-day Adventist publishing house in the world.

Tiarama Adventist College

The only way to recruit new Adventist teachers was to send trainees to the college (now Saleve Adventist University) at Collonges-sous-Salève in France.

William C. White

His brother Edson White was instrumental in setting up the Adventist work among blacks in the southern U.S.

William Spicer

William A. Spicer (1865–1952), Seventh-day Adventist minister and president of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists

WWVA

Walla Walla Valley Academy, a Seventh-day Adventist high school in College Place, Washington


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