Independent ministries of the Seventh-day Adventist Church
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Seventh-day Adventist Church
The Seventh-day Adventist Church is a Protestant Christian denomination distinguished by its observance of Saturday, the original seventh day of the Judeo-Christian week, as the Sabbath, and by its emphasis on the imminent second coming of Jesus Christ...

has a number of supporting, parachurch, independent, self-supporting and other such organisations that work adjunct to the official church.

One author estimated their number at over 800 and are mostly supportive of the church, although differing ministries may be critical of church actions.

Supporting

Supporting ministries are those that exist to support the church's ministry. The Seventh-day Adventist church recognises the contribution made by these organisations as being such that the main church is unable to contribute to. The organisations adhere to official church guidelines and do not accept tithe or solicit money from members during official functions.
  • Association of Adventist Women (website)
  • Association of Seventh-day Adventist Historians (ASDAH) As of 2006, the president is Ciro Sepulveda. They meet every 3 years. A meeting at Oakwood College
    Oakwood College
    Oakwood University is a private university located in Huntsville, Alabama, United States. It is owned and operated by the Seventh-day Adventist Church...

     occurred on April 19–22, 2007, with the theme “Adventism, Change and identity.”
  • Association of Seventh-day Adventist Librarians
    Association of Seventh-day Adventist Librarians
    The Association of Seventh-day Adventist Librarians is an organization of Seventh-day Adventist librarians, an independent ministry to the church.It holds an annual meeting, awards the D...

     (ASDAL)
  • Generation of Youth for Christ
    Generation of Youth for Christ
    Generation of Youth for Christ, formerly the General Youth Conference, is an annual conference and expression of Adventist theology which organizes and cordinates Bible studies, online sermons, regional youth conferences, mission trips, global networking opportunities for young people, week of...

     (GYC), formerly known as the General Youth Conference
  • Weimar Institute
    Weimar Institute
    Weimar Center of Health & Education, historically known as Weimar Institute, is a private educational facility in Weimar, California, which operates an unaccredited high school and college. It highlights traditional Seventh-day Adventist principles of health and education, especially as espoused by...

  • Outpost Centers International
    Outpost Centers International
    Outpost Centers International is a non-profit umbrella organization for lay ministries supporting the Seventh-day Adventist Church...

  • Ouachita Hills Ministries  (website)
  • Desire Media  (http://www.desiremedia.org/index.html)

Supporting (strained)

Some independent ministries may claim to be supporting, but have been viewed with some concern by the official Adventist church. These include:
  • Hope International
    Hope International (Seventh-day Adventist)
    Hope International is an independent organization, operated by members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church who hold very conservative beliefs. It is based in Knoxville, Illinois. The official Adventist church has criticized it for being disruptive.- History :...

  • Remnant Ministries (based in Australia)
  • Hartland Institute
    Hartland Institute
    Hartland Institute, officially Hartland Institute of Health and Education, is an independent educational organization operated by members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. It is located in Rapidan, Virginia in the United States...

     (based in USA)


A committee established by the church in 1998 to investigate these groups "observed in conversations with Hope International and associates that they affirmed agreement on many of the major elements of the Seventh-day Adventist faith. However, the method they have used to express their concern has resulted in what is perceived by many to be a spirit of constant criticism directed against the Seventh-day Adventist Church..."

Offshoot

  • Good News Unlimited. Founder Desmond Ford
    Desmond Ford
    Desmond "Des" Ford is an evangelical Christian and an Australian theologian. He is the father of pornography gossip columnist Luke Ford....

     is a former Seventh-day Adventist minister and theologian best known for confronting the denomination's leadership over the issue of the investigative judgment
    Investigative judgment
    The investigative judgment is a unique Seventh-day Adventist doctrine, which asserts that a divine judgment of professed Christians has been in progress since 1844. It is intimately related to the history of the Seventh-day Adventist Church and was described by the church's prophet and pioneer...

    .
  • Apostles Fellowship, Mobile, Alabama, led by former SDA pastor Steve Durkac, non-denominational evangelical church that holds to common SDA doctrines.

Aid

  • Maranatha Volunteers International
    Maranatha Volunteers International
    Maranatha Volunteers International is a non-profit Christian organization founded in 1969 and is based in Sacramento, California USA with offices in Canada, Latin America, India and Mozambique....

  • Asian Aid
    Asian Aid
    Asian Aid is a non-profit Christian charity organisation that works to provide sponsorship of poverty-stricken children from India, Nepal and Bangladesh. Founded in 1966, Asian Aid is an accredited, supporting ministry of the Seventh-day Adventist Church...

  • Adventist World Aviation
  • ADRA
    Adra
    Adra may refer to:places:*Adra, Spain – municipality in Almería , Andalusia*Adra, Purulia – town in the state of West Bengal, India*Adra, Syria – town approximately 40 km north of Damascus...

  • One Mission is an independent organization endorsed by the Adventist Volunteer Service in the South Pacific Division
    South Pacific Division of Seventh-day Adventists
    The Seventh-day Adventist Church in the South Pacific, , is formally organised as the South Pacific Division of Seventh-day Adventists , also abbreviated as the South Pacific Division or simply "the Division". It is one of 13 world divisions of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists in...

     completely run by volunteers. While volunteers consist primarily of Adventists, it has a non-denominational attitude. Official website.

http://www.hischildrenfoundation.org[His Children Foundation]. This is not a Seventh-day Adventist Church-led organization but it was founded by Seventh-day Adventist Pastor as an outreach program to help needy children in Ghana.Pastor Francis Tuffour is the founder.http://www.causes.com/children

Publishing

The Seventh-day Adventist Church owns and operates many publishing companies around the world including two of the largest located in the United States: Pacific Press Publishing Association
Pacific Press Publishing Association
The Pacific Press Publishing Association, or Pacific Press for short, is one of two major Seventh-day Adventist publishing houses in North America. It was founded in 1874 by James White in Oakland, California, and is now located in Nampa, Idaho. Its titles include theological works as well as...

 and Review and Herald Publishing Association
Review and Herald Publishing Association
The Review and Herald Publishing Association is one of two major Seventh-day Adventist publishing houses in North America and is the oldest institution of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. The organization publishes books, magazines, study guides, CDs, videos and games for Adventist churches,...

.

Many private organizations also print, publish, and promote materials supporting the Seventh-day Adventist message. The largest of these is TEACH Services, Inc.

Media Ministries

Adventists have long been proponents of media-based ministries. Traditional Adventist evangelistic efforts consisted of street missions and the distribution of tracts such as The Present Truth, which was published by James White as early as 1849. Until J. N. Andrews was sent to Switzerland in 1874, Adventist global efforts consisted entirely of the posting of tracts such as White's writings to various locations.

In the last century, these media based efforts have also made use of emerging media such as radio and television. The first of these was H. M. S. Richards' radio show The Voice of Prophecy, which was initially broadcast in Los Angeles in 1929. Since then Adventists have been on the forefront of media evangelism, and one program, It Is Written
It Is Written
It Is Written is an internationally broadcast Christian television program founded in 1956 by George Vandeman. Its title comes from the Gospel of Matthew: "It is written, 'Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.'" The programs are produced by the...

, founded by George Vandeman, was the first religious program to air on colour television and was the first major Christian ministry to utilize satellite uplink technology.

The Three Angels Broadcasting Network was founded in 1984 by Danny Shelton. Troubled by what he saw on Christian television, Shelton was inspired to "build the television and radio networks that would reach the world with the undiluted three angels' messages
Three Angels' Messages
In Seventh-day Adventist beliefs, the "three angels' messages" is an interpretation of the messages given by three angels in Revelation . The church teaches that these messages are given to prepare the world for the second coming of Jesus Christ, and sees them as a central part of its own...

 of Revelation 14 - the networks that would counteract the counterfeit." Eventually this would develop into a major 24-hour satellite service seen around the world, consisting of 3ABN (English) television network, 3ABN Radio Network, and 3ABN Latino (Spanish) Network. 3ABN (as it is often called) broadcasts programming from all the major Seventh-day Adventist ministries, as well as its own productions covering religious, health, children, and music programming. This organization is a privately run non-profit organization, and is a supporting ministry (not an official part) of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
  • 3ABN
    3ABN
    Three Angels Broadcasting Network, or 3ABN for short, is a nonprofit, 24-hour television and radio network that primarily focuses on Christian and health-oriented programming...

  • Amazing Facts
    Amazing Facts
    Amazing Facts is an American Christian ministry. Beginning as a single radio program in 1966 it has expanded into television programming, training, health, prophecy seminars and online Bible study ministries. Its theology is largely that of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.-History:Amazing Facts...

  • SafeTV
  • My Gospel Workers
  • The Voice of Prophecy
  • The Quiet Hour
  • It Is Written
    It Is Written
    It Is Written is an internationally broadcast Christian television program founded in 1956 by George Vandeman. Its title comes from the Gospel of Matthew: "It is written, 'Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.'" The programs are produced by the...

  • Voice of Prophecy
    Voice Of Prophecy
    The Voice Of Prophecy is a long-running Seventh-day Adventist religious radio broadcast founded in 1929 by H.M.S. Richards, Sr.. Initially aired on a single radio station in Los Angeles it has since grown to numerous stations throughout the United States and Canada and more recently has begun...

  • Amazing Discoveries
  • Gospel Ministries International
  • White Horse Media

Criticism toward SDA Church

Some of the independent ministries have criticized the SDA Church for various practices or for abandoning of what they believe are fundamental SDA doctrines. Hartland Institute
Hartland Institute
Hartland Institute, officially Hartland Institute of Health and Education, is an independent educational organization operated by members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. It is located in Rapidan, Virginia in the United States...

 and Hope International are among them. However, these organisations have been criticized themselves for being Pharisaical, legalistic and for lacking the love of Christ.

See also

  • Seventh-day Adventist interfaith relations
    Seventh-day Adventist interfaith relations
    This article describes the relations between the Seventh-day Adventist Church and other Christian denominations and movements, and other religions. Adventist resist the movement to full ecumenical integration with other churches, believing that such a transition would result in a renouncing of its...

  • Seventh-day Adventist Church
    Seventh-day Adventist Church
    The Seventh-day Adventist Church is a Protestant Christian denomination distinguished by its observance of Saturday, the original seventh day of the Judeo-Christian week, as the Sabbath, and by its emphasis on the imminent second coming of Jesus Christ...

  • History of the Seventh-day Adventist Church
    History of the Seventh-day Adventist Church
    The Seventh-day Adventist Church had its roots in the Millerite movement of the 1830s and 1840s, during the period of the Second Great Awakening, and was officially founded in 1863. Prominent figures in the early church included Hiram Edson, James Springer White and his wife Ellen G. White, Joseph...

  • 28 fundamental beliefs
  • Questions on Doctrine
    Questions on Doctrine
    Seventh-day Adventists Answer Questions on Doctrine is a book published by the Seventh-day Adventist Church in 1957 to help explain Adventism to conservative Protestants and Evangelicals...

  • Biblical Research Institute
    Biblical Research Institute
    The Biblical Research Institute is a service department of the Seventh-day Adventist Church with the three stated functions of research, apologetics , and service to the church. It serves as a theological consultant to the General Conference...

  • Teachings of Ellen White
    Teachings of Ellen White
    Ellen G. White, one of the co-founders of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, has been extremely influential on the church, which considers her a prophet, understood today as an expression of the New Testament spiritual gift of prophecy. She was a voluminous writer and popular speaker on health and...

  • Seventh-day Adventist eschatology

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