What is GC ADCOM and how is it different from the GC Executive Committee? It stands for the General Conference (GC) Administrative Committee (ADCOM), a committee of approximately 58 (46 members and 12 invitees) leaders that generally meets weekly at the world headquarters of the Seventh-day Adv...

Hong Kong Adventist College will hold a Theological Symposium 2018 with the theme "Creation Science - Reinterpretation of Scientific Knowledge in accord with Belief in the Literal Truth of the Bible". The Dates are from November 27 to 29, 2018 and the venue is Hong Kong Adventist Colleg...

 Five pastors were ordained on September 22, 2018. The ceremony was held in Kowloon Church. These five pastors are Zhang Qiang, Chinese Union Mission (CHUM) associate regional director; Hao Laien, CHUM assistant regional director and youth ministries director; Lin Wing Chuen, HKMC pastor at ...

We would like to welcome Joel and Kellie Tompkins to our NSD family. Joel will be the new treasurer of our Division, replacing Germán Lust. Germán and his wife Nilde left recently to work at the General Conference. Mr. Tompkins comes to us with extensive experience in treasury and ...

 The Japan Union Conference (JUC) youth department has held a Pathfinder Camporee once every four years. This year, it took place at the National Institution for Youth Education Center in Fukushima Prefecture, from July 30 to August 3, 2018. This camporee, titled “Dedication,” wa...

The youth ministries director of the Northern Asia-Pacific Division (NSD), Pastor Kim NakHyung, and the youth ministries director of the Korean Union Conference (KUC), Pastor Lee KeeHo, hosted the OYiM (One Year in Mission) dedication ceremony on June 9 and 10, 2018, at the Youth Center in YeoJu,...

If a myth is repeated often enough and loud enough a lot of people will accept it as reality. For centuries people believed the earth was flat, and the sun revolved around the earth. Even reputed scientists and scholars of the day taught and repeated the myth. A myth is a myth no matter how loud ...

Following Sunday’s vote on the document “Regard for and Practice of General Conference Session and General Conference Executive Committee Actions”, many questions have been asked about the meaning of the vote and how it impacts church governance. In the following article, we try...

On Sunday, October 14, the General Conference (GC) Executive Committee approved a document, Regard for and Practice of General Conference Session and General Conference Executive Committee Actions by a vote of 185 to 124. The decision was an extension of a vote by the GC Executive Committee at it...

Following more than five hours of presentations and discussion, delegates to the Seventh-day Adventist Church’s annual meeting of its full Executive Committee approved a recommendation from the church’s Unity Oversight Committee (UOC) to create a new compliance process to assist with ...