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The Association of Seventh-day Adventist Librarians (ASDAL) is an international organization for individuals interested in SDA librarianship.
North American Division United States Organization/Association/societies
Australasian Conference Association Limited (ACA) is the most significant and oldest Seventh-day Adventist legal organization in the South Pacific Division of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists (SPD).
ACAST is an acronym for the Australasian Conference Association Superannuation Trust. It is a fund from which employees of the Seventh-day Adventist Church are paid a pension in their retirement. Alternatively, employees may instead choose to receive a lump sum at retirement. The fund was established in response to Australian federal government legislation under the Self-Managed Superannuation Funds Taxation Act (1987) and the Productivity Benefit Act (1988).
Australasian Medical Missionary and Benevolent Association (1897-1900) aimed to promote the principles of healthful living of the denomination and the establishment of the church's medical and charitable enterprises.
Australian Tract and Missionary Society (1888-1902) was an organization that promoted the distribution of Seventh-day Adventist publications and the church's evangelistic activities.
Since 1898 many Seventh-day Adventists have been buried in the Avondale Memorial Cemetery located on the Avondale Estate, Cooranbong, New South Wales.
The Biblical Archeology Museum (Museu de Arqueologia Bíblica or MAB) is an institution of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, operating in the territory of the Central Brazil Union Conference. It is located at Brazil Adventist University, Engenheiro Coelho campus (UNASP-EC) in the city of Engenheiro Coelho, in the state of São Paulo, Brazil.
The Brazilian Adventist Retirement and Assistance Institute (IAJA) is a Seventh-day Adventist Church pension institution, which operates in the South American Division territory. Its headquarters is in the city of Brasília, Federal District, Brazil.
Brazilian Creationist Society (SCB) is a civil, nonprofit, educational, and cultural association. Its headquarters is located in Brasília, Brazil. It aims to suggest, promote, coordinate, and implement actions and programs that support multi-disciplinary scientific research of intelligent design in nature.
Coral Carlos Gomes [Carlos Gomes Choir] is one of the oldest Seventh-day Adventist Church choirs in Brazil.
Modeled somewhat on the Loma Linda Center for Christian Bioethics, the Christian Centre for Bioethics established on the campus of Sydney Adventist Hospital, Australia, has provided a forum for research, discussion, and practical resolution of ethical issues in the practice of medicine since 1986.
A restorationist or primitivist movement that emerged independently in several sections of North America about 1800. It is considered as the first truly indigenous American religious movement. The focus was a quest for apostolic purity.
The Geoscience Museum (MuGe) of Bahia Adventist College (FADBA) is maintained in partnership with the Latin-American Adventist Theological Seminary, based at the same institution. It is an extension of the Geoscience Research Institute, which is operated by the Seventh-Day Adventist Church and is based in Loma Linda, California. It has the mission to discover and share an understanding of nature in its relationship with the Biblical revelation of the Creator God.
The General Conference Youth Department has its offices at the General Conference building in Silver Spring, Maryland, U.S.A. It is assisted in its work by the Adventist Youth (AY) Council, which is a quinquennial advisory of all the Church division leaders.
In the 1880s the importance of parental influence with respect to the development of moral values became an important topic in Adventist circles. Pacific Press published several volumes titled Sabbath Readings for the Home Circle: Moral and Religious Lessons. They were written as educational story books for young Christian couples to read to their children. The church periodical, Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, initiated a regular section titled “The Home,” written by various authors.
Originating in 1870, the Tract and Missionary Societies (sometimes called Book and Tract Societies) became, during the subsequent three decades, the main distribution agency for denominational publications and the organizational vehicle for personal ministries.
The Seventh-day Adventist Medical Cadet Corps (MCC) is a program of the General Conference originally intended to prepare church members for noncombatant military service in the event of compulsory enlistment.
The Messenger Party originated during the early 1850s in Jackson, Michigan.
Founded in 1937, Nairobi Central Church was the second church to be established in Kenya, but it soon became the main center of the goings-on in the Adventist church in Kenya.
East-Central Africa Division Organization/Association/societies
The National Reform Association (NRA) is a conservative organization of Christians that seeks to amend the United States Constitution to reflect the lordship of Jesus Christ as sovereign over the nation. During its existence, the NRA has supported conservative Christian moral reforms, including teaching religion in public schools, advocating pro-life legislation, and lobbying for a national Christian Sabbath (Sunday) law.