Indian Official Visits Adventist Session, Says He Feels Welcome
Among the thousands of Seventh-day Adventists gathered in St. Louis, Mr. M. Murali, an Indian-born Hindu, might have every right to feel out of place.
Among the thousands of Seventh-day Adventists gathered in St. Louis, Mr. M. Murali, an Indian-born Hindu, might have every right to feel out of place.
Pastor Jan Paulsen, world president of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, is turning words into action by holding an impromptu "Lets Talk" TV encounter with younger delegates here at the 58th business session in St. Louis.
A cynical colleague felt the need to warn me that the Exhibit Hall at the 58th General Conference Session of the Seventh-day Adventist Church resembled a bazaar or a village market place.
The good news this morning for delegates at the Adventist Church's world session is that the "Profiling Leadership" presenter would not cover his entire 25-plus-page paper. Those were his joking opening remarks, but the material Ted Ramirez presented came
Delegates to the 58th session of the Seventh-day Adventist world church made significant change to the church's top leadership structure by electing Rosa T. Banks as associate secretary.
If the good news for the Seventh-day Adventist Church is its remarkable membership growth -- more than 5 million baptisms and accessions to membership in the past five years -- the bad news is that in the same period, nearly 1.4 million people were droppe