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George R. Knight

During the 1990s Knight became particularly well known for his fresh insight and popularization of Seventh-day Adventist history.


Albert Lutuli

The third son of Seventh-day Adventist missionary John Bunyan Lutuli and Mtonya Gumede, Albert Lutuli was born near Bulawayo in what was then called Rhodesia, around 1898.

Ang Dating Daan

The program frequently criticizes various denominations for their doctrines, practices and what it says are false teachings, including the Catholic Church, some Christian Denominations, Jehovah's Witnesses, Seventh-day Adventist Church, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and especially the Iglesia ni Cristo, (Church of Christ founded by Felix Manalo), a Philippine-based religion.

Aore Island

The Seventh-day Adventist Church has been active on Aore Island since the early 20th century, and operates a co-educational boarding secondary school, Aore Adventist Academy located on the mid-south coast of the island.

Banatsko Novo Selo

In addition to the Orthodox churches there are also Seventh-day Adventist, Nazarene and Baptist churches.

Banepa

Banepa has a Seventh-day Adventist hospital called Scheer Memorial Hospital, which was established in 1957.

Calimesa, California

Calimesa's only currently operating elementary school - and only currently operating high school - is Mesa Grande Academy, which is a private K-12 school owned by the Seventh-day Adventist Church.

Carlos Roa

After a year of charitable and religious work spent as a member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, his convictions led to his refusal to discuss a new contract with his team, because he believed the world was going to end in the near future.

During his career, he was a practising Seventh-day Adventist and followed a strictly vegetarian diet.

Castaway 2000

One notable clash was between a family of devout Seventh-day Adventists and a gay man.

Castle Medical Center

Ten acres of land were donated for a building site, the community raised $170,000 to fund the project and the Seventh-day Adventist Church donated $600,000.

Chapel Records

Chapel issued numerous recordings by artists that had become popular through the Adventist mass-communication ministries. Among the best selling records issued by Chapel were albums issued by the Heritage Singers.

Charles Scriven

He served for six years as minister in the Seventh-day Adventist church in Sligo in Montgomery County, Maryland.

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.

Doonside, New South Wales

Mountain View Adventist College, on Doonside Road south of the railway line, is run by the Seventh-day Adventist Church and caters for students from Kindergarten to Year 12.

Dory Dixon

He is currently a pastor for the Seventh-day Adventist Church, preaching about religion and physical health all over Mexico.

Ed Correa

Correa was a practicing Seventh-day Adventist and as such would not pitch in any game from sundown Friday till sundown Saturday.

Ellen G. White Estate

Based at the General Conference in Silver Spring, Maryland, with which it works closely, the White Estate has branch offices and research centers at Adventist universities and colleges around the world.

Gabrielle Weidner

She grew up in Switzerland, close to the French border at Collonges-sous-Salève - a village in the French department of Haute-Savoie where her father, Johan Henry Weidner Sr. taught Latin and Greek at the Seventh-day Adventist Church.

George Roden

George Roden (January 17, 1938 – December 6, 1998), was a leader of the Branch Davidian sect, a Seventh-day Adventist splinter group, and the former husband of Amo Bishop Roden.

Hans-Jørgen Holman

In 1957, Holman was approached by Andrews University — perhaps the most renowned educational institution of the Seventh-day Adventist Church — and offered to join its staff.

Hope Channel Europe

It is operated by Stimme der Hoffnung (Voice of Hope) in Germany (which also operates Hope Channel Deutsch), and is owned by the Seventh-day Adventist Church.

Jerusalem Christian Review

The newspaper includes contributions and endorsements by well known Christian and political figures, including Christian psychologist James Dobson, Christian Broadcasting Network president Pat Robertson, Evangelist Franklin Graham, former Southern Baptist president Charles Stanley and Seventh-day Adventist leader George Vandeman.

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.

Lowfield Heath

After the last service in 2004, the Diocese of Chichester retained the building until March 2008, when it allowed a Seventh-day Adventist congregation to move in.

Madgulapally

The village also hosts three high schools and four middle schools (including a Seventh-day Adventist school) among its various businesses.

Manlayo, Quezon

Though other religions are presents like Christian Fellowships, Seventh Day Adventist, Baptists, Methodist and Muslims it only contribute much lesser than Protestants.

Mathew Staver

Mathew D. Staver, J.D., is an American lawyer, and former Seventh-day Adventist pastor.

Maurice-Tièche Comprehensive School

L’Ensemble Scolaire Maurice-Tièche or Maurice Tièche Comprehensive School is a K-13 co-educational, Christian private school owned by the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the region Collonges-sous-Salève of France.

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.

Miami Township, Montgomery County, Ohio

It is also home to the area's oldest major shopping area, the Dayton Mall, and it has Southview Hospital, a member of the Kettering Medical Center Network, a Seventh-day Adventist facility.

Miranda, California

Besides the post office, the town boasts one restaurant, a resort, market, and gas station (all owned by the Eldridge family), a Seventh-day Adventist church, a meetinghouse of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon), a small, rural high school encompassing grades 8-12, a Community Grange, two gift shops, and an active Volunteer Fire Department.

Plamil Foods

Bottled soy milk was available commercially in China from the 1920s, and in 1931 Seventh-day Adventists in Madison, Tennessee, began production of soy milk fortified with calcium.

Rachael Price

Price is the great-granddaughter of creationist and Seventh-day Adventist leader George McCready Price, and the daughter of musician Tom Price.

Robert S. Folkenberg

Robert Stanley Folkenberg, (born January 1, 1941 in Santurce, Puerto Rico), served as General Conference president of the Seventh-day Adventist Church from 1990 through to his resignation in 1999.

Scheer Memorial Hospital

The Scheer Memorial Hospital is a Seventh-day Adventist hospital in Banepa, Nepal.

Seventh-day Adventist eschatology

While much of it presents Christian and Adventist church history, the later chapters describe end-time events.

Shurugwi Rural Areas

Hanke Adventist High School, a Seventh-day Adventist school which traditionally offered up to 0-Levels and was called Hanke Adventist Secondary School.

Shwenyaungbin

Seventh-day Adventist missionaries once had a station in Shwenyaungbin but missionaries such as Chit Maung and his wife and several others were driven out due to religious conflict in the region.

Thomas Talbott

# Christians who believe in Christian mortalism and conditional immortality, for example Seventh-day Adventists, typically disagree with #3, and propose the doctrine of annihilationism as an alternative solution to Talbott's proposed problem.

WXOB-LP

The station also offers three national religious programs: Enjoying Everyday Life with white female evangelist Joyce Meyer, Amazing Facts with Seventh-day Adventist Church evangelist Doug Batchelor, and the Shepherd's Chapel with controversial pastor Arnold Murray.


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