Seventh-day Adventist Yearbook for 1983

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YEARBOOK
1983
A Directory of
The General Conference, World Divisions,
Union and Local Conferences and Missions,
Educational Institutions, Food Companies,
Health-Care Institutions, Media Center,
Publishing Houses, Periodicals, and
Denominational Workers.
Printed in the U.S.A. by the
REVIEW AND HERALD PUBLISHING ASSOCIATION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20012
For the Office of Archives and Statistics
GENERAL CONFERENCE OF SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS
6840 EASTERN AVENUE, NORTHWEST
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20012
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Contents
Centennial Edition of the 1883 Yearbook (cid:9) 4-9
Preface; Statistics (cid:9) 10
Fundamental Beliefs of Seventh-day Adventists (cid:9) 11
Constitution and Bylaws (cid:9) 15
General Conference and Departments (cid:9) 21
Divisions:
Africa-Indian Ocean (cid:9) 41
Australasian (cid:9) 63
China (cid:9) 85
Eastern Africa (cid:9) 87
Euro-Africa (cid:9) 99
Far Eastern (cid:9) 125
Inter-American (cid:9) 163
North American (cid:9) 195
Northern European (cid:9) 269
South American (cid:9) 283
Southern Asia (cid:9) 313
Trans-Africa (cid:9) 331
Middle East Union (cid:9) 347
The Seventh-day Adventist in USSR (cid:9) 351
Institutions:
Educational Institutions (cid:9) 355
Food Companies (cid:9) 463
Health-Care Institutions (cid:9) 471
North American Health-Care Corporations (cid:9) 511
Dispensaries and Clinics (cid:9) 512
Retirement Homes and Orphanages (cid:9) 517
Media Center (cid:9) 521
Publishing Houses (cid:9) 523
Periodicals Issued (cid:9) 537
Necrology (cid:9) 552
Advertisers (cid:9) 556
index of Institutional Workers (cid:9) 557
Directory of Workers (cid:9) 643
General Conference Presidents, Secretaries and Treasurers (cid:9) 555
Calendars of Special Days and Offerings 1983-1984 (cid:9) 942
Calendars 1983-1984 (cid:9) 944
List of Countries With Their Organizational Locations (cid:9) 945
General Index (cid:9) 947
Telex Directory (cid:9) 961
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CENTENNIAL EDITION
of the
Seventh-day Adventist Yearbook
This year marks the one hundredth anniversary of the first Seventh-day
Adventist Yearbook. On pages 5 to 9 following are reproductions of
significant pages of the 1883 Yearbook that was used by A. B. Oyen, General
Conference secretary from 1881 to 1883, and is now held in the General
Conference Archives.
The content of the Yearbooks has been varied. The first Yearbook
contained the statistics of the denomination, the proceedings of the General
Conference, Tract and Missionary Society, and other associations, the
financial condition of the institutions, the General and State Conference
constitutions, a calendar, and full directories of all the conferences, and
various societies throughout the country. This 72-page paperback book also
contained postal information and a catalog of the publications of the SDA
Publishing Association.
Succeeding issues brought some change in content. The 1884 Yearbook
was the first to contain a ministers' directory. From 1884 to 1886 the
Yearbooks contained major articles on the history of the church; later
editions emphasized the activities of the organizational units for the
preceding year. The 1887 edition was the first to use engravings of
institutions. The 1904 edition no longer contained GC Committee
proceedings. Statistical reports terminated with the 1964 edition.
Responsibility for gathering the data and editing the Yearbooks was first
given to the Publishing Association. Since 1975 it has been the responsibility
of the Archives and Statistics Department of the General Conference.
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THE
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST
(cid:9)
YEAR BOOK
7c-TWY,'
CONTAINING
STATISTICS OF THE GENERAL CONFERENCE AND OTHER
ORGANIZATIONS OF THE DENOMINATION, WITH
THE BUSINESS PROCEEDINGS OF THE
1ANNIVERSARYIII EETINGS
HELD AT ROME, N. Y., DEC. 7-19, 1882.
_0_
BATTLE CREEK, MICH.
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST PUBLISHING ASSOCIATION.
1883.
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INTRODUCTORY NOTE.
AT the last session of the Seventh-day Adventist General Con-
ference held in Rome, N. Y., commencing Dec. 7, 1882, the fol-
lowing resolution was unanimously passed by that body :—
Resolved, That we request the President of the General Confer-
ence to arrange with the Publishing Committee of the S. D. A.
Publishing Association to publish a book to be entitled "The
Seventh-day Adventist Year Book," which shall contain such
portions of the proceedings of the General Conference, and such
other matters, as the Committee may think best to insert therein.
In accordance with this resolution, arrangements were made with
the Publishing Committee, and after considerable delay, unavoidable
in the preparation of a work of, this kind, the following pages are
presented as the result of their effort.
COMMITTEE.
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CONTENTS.
PAGE.
General Conference Directory (cid:9) 5
International Tract and Missionary Directory (cid:9) 5
General Sabbath-school Association Directory (cid:9) 6
National Health and Temperance Association Directory (cid:9) 6
Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association Directory (cid:9) 6
Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association Directory (cid:9) 7
Health Reform Institute Directory (cid:9) 7
Educational Society Directory (cid:9)
State Conference Directories (cid:9) 7
State Tract and Missionary Society Directories (cid:9) 12
State Sabbath-school Association Directories (cid:9) 16
State Health and Temperance Association Directories (cid:9) 18
General Conference Proceedings (cid:9) 20
Seventh-day Adventist Statistics, 1882 (cid:9) 33
Proceedings of the International (General) Tract and Missionary
Society (cid:9) 34
General Sabbath-school Association (cid:9) 38
Annual Summary of Missionary Labor for Year Ending October 1,
1882 (cid:9) 39
The American Health and Temperance Association (cid:9) 40
Meeting of the Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association (cid:9) 43
Proceedings of the Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing As-
sociation (cid:9) 46
The Health Reform Institute (cid:9) 47
Proceedings of the Seventh-day Adventist Educational Society (cid:9) 50
Constitution of the General Conference (cid:9) 52
Constitution for State Conferences (cid:9) 54
Statistics of the Publishing Work (cid:9) 55
Postal Rates, Domestic and Foreign (cid:9) 56
Catalogue of Publications (cid:9) 57
Monthly Calendars (cid:9) 60
General Calendar (cid:9) 72
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SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST YEAR BOOK,
GENERAL CONFERENCE DIRECTORY.
President : Geo. I. Butler, Battle Creek, Mich.
Secretary : A. B. Oyen, Battle Creek, Mich.
Treasurer : Mrs. M. J. Chapman, Battle Creek, Mich.
Executive Committee : Geo. I. Butler, Battle Creek, Mich.;
S. N. Haskell, South Lancaster, Mass.; J. Fargo, Greenville, Mich.
INTERNATIONAL TRACT AND MISSIONARY
DIRECTORY.
President : S. N. Haskell, South Lancaster, Mass.
Vice President : W. C. White, Oakland, Cal.
Secretary and Treasurer : Miss M. L. Huntley, South Lancaster,
Mass.
.Assistant Secretary : Miss Nellie E. Sisley, Battle Creek, Mich.
Executive Committee : S. N. Haskell, South Lancaster, Mass.;
Geo. I. Butler, Battle Creek, Mich.; 0. A. Olsen, Swan Lake,
Turner Co., D. T.
Agents and Branch Offices : Eld. M. C. Israel, Oakland, Cal.;
Wm. Ings, San Francisco, Cal.; Eld. C. L. Boyd, Salem, Oregon;
Eld. G. W. Colcord, Walla Walla, W. T.; Charles M. Kinney,
Reno, Nev.; Mary Heileson, Swan Lake, Dakota ; Miss S. E.
Whiteis, Fremont, Neb.; Eld. H. Grant, Medford, Minn.; Eld. H.
W. Decker, Monroe, Wis.; Lizzie S. Campbell, Belvidere, Ill.;
Lizzie Hornby, Davenport, Iowa ; Clara A. L. Gibbs, Ottawa,
Kansas; Mrs. Sarah Clarke, Lowry City, Mo.; Eld. C. 0. Taylor,
Balden Springs, Ala.; Eld. R. M. Kilgore, Peoria, Texas ; Eld. S.
H. Lane, Battle Creek, Mich.; Eld. D. A. Robinson, South Lancas-
ter, Mass.; Eld. J. B. Goodrich, Hartland, Me.; Eld. A. S. Hutch-
ins, Irasburg, Vt.; Eld. A. C. Bourdeau, South Stukely, P. Q.; C.
Owens, Edgefield Junction, Tenn.; J. B. Forest, Knob Lick, Ky.;
Addie S. Bowen, Rome, N. Y.; Mrs. D. C. Phillips, Wellsville, N.
Y.; Eld. E. H. Gates, Clyde, Ohio ; J. F. Jones, Calverton, Md.
Agents and Foreign Branch Offices : EM. J. N. Loughborough,
Ravenswood, Shirley Road, Southampton, England ; Geo. R. Drew
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GENERAL CONFERENCE PROCEEDINOS.(cid:9) :13
A vote of thanks was also extended to the railroads that granted
the delegates favors in corning to the Conference.
Eld. R. F. Andrews invited the General Conference to hold its
next annual session in Illinois, and Eds. II. A. St. John of Ohio
and C. A. Washburn of Iowa extended the same invitation, offering
the Conferences the hospitalities of their respective States.
On motion, the Conference adjourned.
A. B. OVEN, See.(cid:9) GEO. I. Burmt, P IPS.
SEVENTH—DAY ADVENTIST STATISTICS, 1882.
Cal i Tornio (cid:9) S(cid:9) 5 30 1029(cid:9) 8 10887 15
Canada (cid:9) .....(cid:9) 1 1 4 155 182 00
Colorado (cid:9) 164 1169 05
Dakota(cid:9) ....(cid:9) . .....(cid:9) ..• (cid:9) 3 2 12 270 j 900 26
Denmark (cid:9) 2 2 8 150 75 00
Illinois 9 8 :30 61/0 i 5070 80
Indiana (cid:9) 5 10 27 02:3 2734 45
Iowa(cid:9) ............(cid:9) ........ 10 10 41 1450 1;734 01
Kansas (cid:9) I (cid:9) 5 8 30 1000 2566 12
Kentucky (cid:9) 2 5 84 230 95
Maine (cid:9) 2 22 374 1341 19)
Michigan(cid:9) 29 20 123 3400 11078 37
Minnesota(cid:9) ..... ........(cid:9) 1:3 11 61 1306 5068 36
Missouri(cid:9) ........ .......(cid:9) 2 9 18 400 1101 00
Nebraska .................... 6 2 26 553 i 3699 02
New England ........ (cid:9) 3 5 23 507 4823 53
New York (cid:9) 11 8 31 783 5496 98
North Pacific(cid:9) 4 5 123 1030 06
Ohio(cid:9) . •(cid:9) .....(cid:9) . .....(cid:9) 7 33 746 4104 92
Pennsylvania(cid:9) .....(cid:9) I (cid:9) '6 2 17 445 3265 95
Sweden.......... (cid:9) I (cid:9) 1 1 :3 88 ......
Tennessee .(cid:9) 1 3 5 54 420 46
Texas.. .....(cid:9) ........ (cid:9) 1 2 7 262 1152 30
Upper Columbia ..... (cid:9) 2 2 5 181 1130 711
Vermont.(cid:9) ...... ...........•.(cid:9) 5 4 13 375 1890 110
Wisconsin(cid:9) .....(cid:9) ......(cid:9) 1:3 4 47 1500 5690 00
MISSION'—
Central European(cid:9) . (cid:9) 2 16 223 i 442 70
English ....(cid:9) ............• . . 2 2 60 379 18
General Southern(cid:9) ..... 3 2 4 71 152 00
Nevada(cid:9) ....(cid:9) ....... ...... .... 2(cid:9) :38 329 85
Norway 1(cid:9) 100 *459 44
Virginia(cid:9) ........(cid:9) ..... ...... 2(cid:9) 55 235 00
Totals(cid:9) ....... (cid:9) 167 134 660(cid:9) 17169 3 84261 :30
As given last year . ....... 148 126 640(cid:9) 16916 6 74185 55
Gain (cid:9) 19 8 20(cid:9) 253 :8 10075 81
'These are the figures as given last year for Norway and Sweden together.
Nor*.—We have succeeded this year in obtaining reports from all the (.1,nferetne; and
Missions, with a few exceptions. Yet the reports are in many instances very incomplete, so
that the totals hardly represent our standing correctly. The figures are, however, in most
cases, too small rather than too large, with an exception, perhaps, in the number of ministers,
where some may have been counted twice.(cid:9) A. B. ol'EN,
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Preface to the 1983 Edition
Scope of the Yearbook and opened a school, but the project ended when riots
broke out in the vicinity. The first non—Protestant
A world directory of the Seventh-day Adventist Church
Christian country entered was Russia, where an Adventist
is given in the following pages. It includes the General
minister went in 1886. On October 20, 1890, the
Conference and its thirteen international divisions with
their union conferences and missions, local conferences schooner Pitcairn was launched at San Francisco and was
and missions, and related institutions. Institutions that are soon engaged in carrying missionaries to the Pacific
islands. Seventh-day Adventist workers first entered
managed but not fully owned and operated by church
entities are not included. The information has been non-Christian countries in 1894—Gold Coast (Ghana),
West Africa, and Matabeleland, South Africa. The same
furnished by the organizations themselves; but in cases
year saw missionaries entering South America, and in
where current reports have not been received, the most
1896 the Church had its representatives in Japan.
recent previous records have been retained or adjusted.
The publication and distribution of literature were
In the conference and mission sections, workers are
major factors in the growth of the Advent Movement. The
listed in the following sequence: ordained ministers
Advent Review and Sabbath Herald (now the Adventist
holding ministerial credentials, credentialed commis-
Review), general church paper, was launched in Paris,
sioned ministers, credentialed missionaries, licensed
Maine, in 1850; the Youth's Instructor in Rochester, New
ministers, licensed commissioned ministers, licensed
York, in 1852; and the Signs of the Times in Oakland,
missionaries, and credentialed literature evangelists. The
California, in 1874. The first denominational publishing
Directory of Workers gives the names and addresses of all
house, at Battle Creek, Michigan, began operating in
credentialed workers and licensed ministers. Institutional
1855 and was duly incorporated in 1861 under the name
workers are listed separately in the Index of Institutional
of Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Assciciation.
Workers.
The Health Reform Institute, later known as the Battle
The data that appears below has been summarized
largely from the 1981 Annual Statistical Report, while the Creek Sanitarium, opened its doors in 1866, and
missionary society work was organized on a statewide
figures for the number of churches, and for church
membership throughout the Yearbook are drawn from basis in 1870. The first of the Church's worldwide
network of schools was established in 1872, and 1877
official reports rendered for June 30, 1982.
saw the formation of state-wide Sabbath school associa-
Denominational History tions. In 1903, the denominational headquarters was
Although the name "Seventh-day Adventist" was moved from Battle Creek, Michigan, to Washington,
chosen in 1860, the denomination was not officially D.C., where it continues to form the nerve-center of an
organized until May 21, 1863, when the movement ever-expanding work. Each year sees further develop-
included some 125 churches and 3,500 members. Work ment in the work of the Church.
was largely confined to North America until 1874 when That the Church's growth and God's blessings may be
the Church's first missionary, J. N. Andrews, was sent to accurately and inspiringly reflected in this Yearbook is
Switzerland. Africa was penetrated briefly in 1879 when the desire of the Archives and Statistics Committee and
Dr. H. P. Ribton, an early convert in Italy, moved to Egypt staff.
World Statistics for 1981
(except as noted)
MEMBERSHIP AND WORKERS HEALTH MINISTRY
(as of June 30, 1982) Sanitariums and hospitals (cid:9) 166
Baptized church members (cid:9) 3,759,468 Dispensaries, clinics, and launches (cid:9) 269
Organized churches (cid:9) 22,357 Physicians, dentists, residents, and
Ordained ministers, active (cid:9) 9,889 interns (cid:9) 1,971
Total active workers (cid:9) 94,891 Nurses (cid:9) 11,485
Baptisms and professions of faith (cid:9) 307,908 Outpatient visits (cid:9) 5,413,059
(July 1, 1981 to June 30, 1982) Assets of health-care institutions ... $1,145,618,477
MISSION WORK (1980 figure)
Food companies (cid:9) 23
Countries in which church is working (cid:9) 184 Retirement homes and orphanages (cid:9) 86
(Countries in the world-218)
Number of divisions (cid:9) 13 PUBLISHING WORK
Number of unions (cid:9) 79
Publishing houses (cid:9) 50
Number of conferences, missions
Languages in which church is working (cid:9) 585
and fields (cid:9) 383
Missionaries sent (cid:9) 294 Languages, publishing in (cid:9) 177
Literature evangelists (cid:9) 7,725
GOOD-NEIGHBOR PROGRAM Literature sales (cid:9) $131,924,703
Persons helped (cid:9) 12,104,892 SABBATH SCHOOLS
Articles of clothing given (cid:9) 19,753,329
Cash and value of food given (cid:9) $10,861,771 Sabbath school members (cid:9) 4,405,370
Value of equipment given (cid:9) $1,214,570 Sabbath schools (cid:9) 44,880
EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM CONTRIBUTIONS
Schools operated by church (cid:9) 4,834 Tithe—world (cid:9) $419,609,530
Total enrollment (cid:9) 550,603 North America (cid:9) $266,483,542
Primary and elementary schools (cid:9) 3,921 Sabbath School—world (cid:9) $35,311,470
Secondary schools (cid:9) 832 North America (cid:9) $20,136,193
Colleges (cid:9) 78 Ingathering—world (cid:9) $8,528,193
Schools of nursing (cid:9) 41 All contributions—world (cid:9) $670,253,121
Universities (cid:9) 2 North America (cid:9) $461,836,209
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