South Pacific Division of Seventh-day Adventists
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| Governing body: | General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists The General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists is the governing organization of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. It is located in Silver Spring, Maryland, United States, where it moved in 1989... |
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| Countries: | Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and the islands of the South Pacific |
| Organisational style: | Representative hierarchy |
| Headquarters: |  WahroongaWahroonga, New South Wales Wahroonga is a suburb on the Upper North Shore of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Wahroonga is located 22 kilometres north-west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of Ku-ring-gai Council and Hornsby Shire.... , New South Wales New South Wales New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales... , Australia |
| President: | Barry Oliver |
| Membership: | About 400,000 |
| Church groups: | Almost 5000 |
| Employed workers: | 780 ministers. 5,923 total employees |
| Schools, colleges and universities: | 254 schools, colleges and universities; approximately 1,800 teachers and 35,000 students |
| Website: | adventist.org.au |
The 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...
in the South Pacific, (Oceania), is formally organised as the South Pacific Division of Seventh-day Adventists (SPD), 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
General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists
The General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists is the governing organization of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. It is located in Silver Spring, Maryland, United States, where it moved in 1989...
in the organisation of the church. It includes the countries of Australia, New Zealand
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
, Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea , officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is a country in Oceania, occupying the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and numerous offshore islands...
and the islands of the South Pacific.
It is made up of four regional offices. They are the Australian Union Conference (located in Melbourne), New Zealand Pacific Union Conference (located in Auckland
Auckland
The Auckland metropolitan area , in the North Island of New Zealand, is the largest and most populous urban area in the country with residents, percent of the country's population. Auckland also has the largest Polynesian population of any city in the world...
), Papua New Guinea Union Mission (located in Lae
Lae
Lae, the capital of Morobe Province, is the second-largest city in Papua New Guinea. It is located at the start of the Highlands Highway which is the main land transport corridor from the Highlands region to the coast...
) and Trans-Pacific Union Mission (located in Suva
Suva
Suva features a tropical rainforest climate under the Koppen climate classification. The city sees a copious amount of precipitation during the course of the year. Suva averages 3,000 mm of precipitation annually with its driest month, July averaging 125 mm of rain per year. In fact,...
, Fiji
Fiji
Fiji , officially the Republic of Fiji , is an island nation in Melanesia in the South Pacific Ocean about northeast of New Zealand's North Island...
).
The head office of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the South Pacific is in Wahroonga
Wahroonga, New South Wales
Wahroonga is a suburb on the Upper North Shore of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Wahroonga is located 22 kilometres north-west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of Ku-ring-gai Council and Hornsby Shire....
, New South Wales
New South Wales
New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...
, Australia.
The vision/purpose/mission statement of the church in this region is:
"Our vision is to know, experience and share our hope in Jesus Christ!"
History
See also Adventism in the South Pacific.
Australia
On May 10, 1885, eleven Americans set sail on the Australia from San Francisco with hopes to “open up a mission in Australia.”The following people became the pioneers of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the South Pacific -
- Pastor Stephen Haskell
- Pastor Mendel Israel, accompanied by his wife and two daughters
- Pastor John Corliss, accompanied by his wife and two children
- Henry Scott, a printer from Pacific Press
- William Arnold, an Adventist bookseller
They arrived in Sydney on June 6, 1885. While Haskell and Israel stayed in Sydney, the others went on a three day ride in a small coastal steamer to Melbourne, the city selected to be the base for the church’s Australian activities.
The first Seventh-day Adventist church in Australia was the Melbourne Seventh-day Adventist Church, which formed on January 10, 1886 with 29 members.
New Zealand
Pastor Stephen Haskell, one of the pioneer missionaries to Australia, was also keen to spread the message throughout New Zealand, which he had visited briefly on his initial voyage to Australia. He returned to Auckland four months later to begin marketing the soon-to-be-released religious paper, The Bible Echo and Signs of the Times, now the Signs of the Times (Australian version)Signs of the Times (Australia)
Signs of the Times is a monthly subscription magazine published by Signs Publishing Company, a Seventh-day Adventist publishing house, for Australia and New Zealand...
.
Reports of Haskell's early success in New Zealand, caused the leaders of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in America to delegate A. G. Daniells
Arthur Grosvenor Daniells
Arthur Grosvenor Daniells was a Seventh-day Adventist minister and administrator, most notably the longest serving president of the General Conference....
, an evangelist and former school teacher, along with his wife to travel to New Zealand to develop the work further in that country.
Daniells had astounding success through his dynamic preaching and on October 15, 1887, he opened the first Seventh-day Adventist church in New Zealand at Ponsonby
Ponsonby, New Zealand
Ponsonby is an inner-city suburb of Auckland City located 2 km west of the Auckland CBD, in the North Island of New Zealand. The suburb is oriented along a ridge running north-south, which is followed by the main street of the suburb, Ponsonby Road....
. Daniells would eventually go on to become the world president of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
See In and Out of the World: Seventh-day Adventists in New Zealand, ed. Harry Ballis, 1985
Cook Islands
John Tay, an American, was the first Seventh-day Adventist to visit the Cook IslandsCook Islands
The Cook Islands is a self-governing parliamentary democracy in the South Pacific Ocean in free association with New Zealand...
. During his visit in 1886 Tay sold Adventist literature to the people there.
Another missionary voyage to the Pitcairn Islands
Pitcairn Islands
The Pitcairn Islands , officially named the Pitcairn, Henderson, Ducie and Oeno Islands, form a group of four volcanic islands in the southern Pacific Ocean. The islands are a British Overseas Territory and overseas territory of the European Union in the Pacific...
provided a second opportunity to sell literature and offer medical services to the Cook Islanders. Dr Joseph and his wife Julia accepted a request to stay on the island as permanent doctor. Julia, a schoolteacher, opened an English-language school. Along with them remained Dudley and Sarah Owen and Maud Young, a Pitcairner who came as a student nurse.
The five Adventists worshipped regularly with the London Missionary Society believers in their church in Avarua
Avarua
Avarua is a town and district in the north of Rarotonga Island, the national capital of the Cook Islands...
. The services were conducted in English, but many islanders attended as well.
Fiji
The first Adventist contact in FijiFiji
Fiji , officially the Republic of Fiji , is an island nation in Melanesia in the South Pacific Ocean about northeast of New Zealand's North Island...
was the arrival of the ship the Pitcairn in 1891. The Pitcairn missionaries began to conduct meetings for the Fijians. Two of the missionaries, John and Hannah Tay remained in Suva
Suva
Suva features a tropical rainforest climate under the Koppen climate classification. The city sees a copious amount of precipitation during the course of the year. Suva averages 3,000 mm of precipitation annually with its driest month, July averaging 125 mm of rain per year. In fact,...
while the others journeyed to neighbouring islands to sell books to the Fijians. After six months in Fiji, John Tay died; bringing his contribution to Adventist evangelism in the Pacific to a premature end.
By 1895, more Adventist missionaries arrived to deliver the Advent message, these included
John Fulton and family, and Pastor John Cole and his wife.
During John Fulton's effort to translate books into Fijian, Pauliasi (a Methodist minister) became convinced of the accuracy of the Seventh-day Sabbath, and later became the first ordained Adventist Minister. In those days, Seventh-day Adventist were often referred by Fijian locals to as "lotu savasava" or the "clean church". This was based on the Adventist doctrine emphasizing healthy living which includes a ban on the consumption of pork, alcohol, tobacco, caffeine, etc.
Four Adventist schools were established to reach the different ethnic and religious divisions of Fiji. Fulton College was founded when three of these schools combined. Its mission was to provide "pastoral training, teacher training and technical instruction, it also included Indian and Fijian primary schools".
According to the 1996 census
Demographics of Fiji
This article is about the demographic features of the population of Fiji, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population....
around 2.9 % of Fijians identify themselves as Adventist.
Papua New Guinea
Seventh-day Adventists first sent religious literature to Papua New Guinea in 1891 on the London Missionary Society boat. In 1895 church leaders decided to send a missionary family to New Guinea, a decision they abandoned when they heard news of cannibals murdering and eating several missionaries of the London Missionary Society.A few Adventist church leaders made short visits to safe native villages of New Guinea from 1902 to 1905. These visits further convinced them of the need to send missionaries to live on the island. They thought Fijian missionary trainees would adapt more easily to the steamy climate, local food and leafy houses of New Guinea. Septimus and Edith Carr, who had previously worked in Fiji, and their Fijian assistant, Benisimani (Beni) Tavondi arrived at Port Moresby on June 25, 1908.
The missionaries rented a house and began making contact with the government officials, other European and national missionaries and planters. They became familiar with the local area, visited native feasts and gave out salt to befriend the villagers.
The new site was used as a plantation. Soon more missionaries came to help. The missionaries officially started a church on the island on July 11, 1910.
Tonga
In June 1891, E. H. Gates and A. J. Read visit TongaTonga
Tonga, officially the Kingdom of Tonga , is a state and an archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean, comprising 176 islands scattered over of ocean in the South Pacific...
(Friendly Islands) on the fourth journey of the ship Pitcairn, and left without any new Adventist converts. By August 30, 1895, Edward Hilliard, his wife Ida, and daughter Alta arrived in Tonga as the first Seventh-day Adventist missionaries.
The Hilliards established the first Adventist school in the Kingdom at their home, and later was closed due to little assistance.
In 1896, more Adventist missionaries arrived in Tonga, which includes, Sarah and Maria Young (two nursing trainees), and Edwin and Florence Butz and daughter Alma. Maria Young was also known to participate in assisting Queen Lavinia in giving birth to Salote (the 3rd King of Tonga). She (Maria) was later married to the first Adventist convert in Tonga (an English man), Charles Edwards; whereas, Timote Mafi was the first Tongan Adventist convert.
In 1904, Miss Ella Boyd reopened the Adventist primary school at Nukualofa
Nukuʻalofa
Nukualofa is the capital of the Kingdom of Tonga. It is located on the north coast of the island of Tongatapu, in the southern most island group of Tonga.-Mythological origins:...
(now known as Mangaia or Hilliard). Adventist school began to grow in size and twenty year's later; secondary school grades were introduced to Beulah. Until 1937, this school was finally recognized as 'Beulah Adventist College' after a great success in Government public exams.
Today, the Seventh-day Adventist in Tonga has a small amount of members in comparison to other dominant Christian churches in Tonga. There are a total of four Seventh-day Adventist school in Tonga, which is, one primary school (Beulah Primary School), two integrated primary and middle school (Hilliard and Mizpah), and one secondary school (Beulah Adventist College). Out of these Adventist schools, Beulah College has a known and recognized Brass Band in the Kingdom and throughout the Pacific.
Organisational history
The South Pacific Division was organized in 1894 as the Australasian Union Conference, and consisted of just Australia and New Zealand. In 1901 the South Pacific islands were added to the structure. In 1905 SingaporeSingapore
Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...
and Sumatra
Sumatra
Sumatra is an island in western Indonesia, westernmost of the Sunda Islands. It is the largest island entirely in Indonesia , and the sixth largest island in the world at 473,481 km2 with a population of 50,365,538...
were added, with Java
Java
Java is an island of Indonesia. With a population of 135 million , it is the world's most populous island, and one of the most densely populated regions in the world. It is home to 60% of Indonesia's population. The Indonesian capital city, Jakarta, is in west Java...
and the Philippines
Philippines
The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...
added in 1906. New Guinea
New Guinea
New Guinea is the world's second largest island, after Greenland, covering a land area of 786,000 km2. Located in the southwest Pacific Ocean, it lies geographically to the east of the Malay Archipelago, with which it is sometimes included as part of a greater Indo-Australian Archipelago...
was added in 1908. In 1910 Singapore and the Philippines were moved to the Asiatic Division, followed by Java and Sumatra in 1911.
In 1915 the Australasian Union Conference joined the Asiatic Division, but separated again in 1919 as the Australasia Union. In 1922 it was organised as the Australasian Division, although it also retained its former name, Australasian Union Conference.
In 1949 it became the Australasian Inter-Union Conference, after splitting into two union conferences and two union missions. In 1956 the name was changed to Australasian Division, and in 1958 to Australasian Division of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
In 1953 the Bismarck-Solomons Union Mission split off from the Coral Sea Union Mission, due to rapidly increasing membership. However in 1972 these were recombined as the Papua New Guinea Union Mission. The remaining territories became the Western Pacific Union Mission. Later Tuvalu
Tuvalu
Tuvalu , formerly known as the Ellice Islands, is a Polynesian island nation located in the Pacific Ocean, midway between Hawaii and Australia. Its nearest neighbours are Kiribati, Nauru, Samoa and Fiji. It comprises four reef islands and five true atolls...
rejoined the Central Pacific Union.
In 1985 the Australasian Division became known as the South Pacific Division.
Institutions
Seventh-day Adventists in the South Pacific believe in communicating their faith through programs and events that meet spiritual, physical and social needs.This can be seen through their involvement in various areas.
Education
The Adventist church runs one of the largest Protestant education systems in the world. In the South Pacific, the Adventist Church operates four tertiary colleges and universities (Avondale CollegeAvondale College
Avondale College of Higher Education is an Australian tertiary education provider affiliated with the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Avondale College has two campuses, Lake Macquarie being the primary campus situated in Cooranbong, New South Wales...
in Australia, Fulton College
Fulton College (Fiji)
Fulton College is a co-educational boarding tertiary institution situated on the eastern side of Viti Levu on the main island of Fiji. It is operated by the Seventh-day Adventist church. It serves the island countries of: Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, Tuvalu, New Caledonia, Cook Islands, French Polynesia,...
in Fiji, and Pacific Adventist University
Pacific Adventist University
Pacific Adventist University is a tertiary institution located 21 kilometres outside Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, and operated by the South Pacific Division of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Both the faculty and the student body are international in composition...
and Sonoma Adventist College
Sonoma Adventist College
Sonoma Adventist College is a co-educational tertiary institution situated in Kokopo in Papua New Guinea. It is operated by the Seventh-day Adventist Church and is accredited by the Adventist Accrediting Association.- Academic divisions :...
in Papua New Guinea), and more than 250 primary and secondary schools, with a total enrollment of about 35,000. The Adventist educational program is comprehensive, encompassing "mental, physical, social, and spiritual health" with "intellectual growth and service to humanity" its goal.
See also Education in the South Pacific.
Health and lifestyle
Throughout the world, the church runs a wide network of hospitals, clinics, and sanitariums. These play a role in the church's health message and worldwide missions outreach.The Adventist Church operates two hospitals, Sydney Adventist Hospital
Sydney Adventist Hospital
Sydney Adventist Hospital, commonly known as the San, is a large private hospital in Sydney, Australia, located on Fox Valley Road in Wahroonga. Established on January 1, 1903, as a not-for-profit organisation, it was originally named the Sydney Sanitarium from which its colloquial name was derived...
and Atoifi Adventist Hospital in the South Pacific and more than 80 clinics in remote communities. Sydney Adventist Hospital or better known as the SAN is one of the largest and most comprehensive private hospitals in Australia.
Adventists also run the Heel'n'Toe walking club, vegetarian-cooking demonstrations and stop smoking programs to help people achieve a better sense of wellbeing. See their community health projects.
Established in 1898 by the Seventh-day Adventist Church, the Sanitarium Health Food Company
Sanitarium Health Food Company
The Sanitarium Health & Wellbeing Company is the trading name of two sister food companies . Both are wholly owned by the Seventh-day Adventist Church....
is now the leading health food manufacturer in Australia and New Zealand. Sanitarium offers a wide range of healthy food and nutritional advice.
The church also operates 18 aged-care facilities called Adventist Retirement Villages in Australia and New Zealand.
Social and community issues
The Seventh-day Adventist Church in the South Pacific operates a number of counselling services such as the Bridge Street Centre in Lake Macquarie and Adventist Counselling Services in Sydney.Christian Services for the Blind and Hearing Impaired (CSFBHI) has been set up by the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the South Pacific to address the needs of those who are aurally or visually impaired. Their audio library has over 1,000 audio books available for loan. There are over 400 members registered in our Audio Library.
Free correspondence courses on topic such as health and spirituality and free home viewing of videos such as Who is Jesus?, Eating Smart and The Search are also available through the Adventist Discovery Centre.
Humanitarian aid and development
The Adventist Development and Relief AgencyAdventist Development and Relief Agency
The Adventist Development and Relief Agency International is a humanitarian agency operated by the Seventh-day Adventist Church for the purpose of providing individual and community development and disaster relief...
(ADRA) is the international charity of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. ADRA works as a non-sectarian relief agency in 125 countries and areas of the world. Its primary aim is to develop communities to be economically independent and self-sufficient through community- owned projects both nationally and internationally including disaster relief. ADRA Australia’s domestic organisation operates op-shops, drop-ins centres and numerous other local community projects.
Media
Adventist Media Network began operations in Australia on 1 July 2006 and is the first communication and media network of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.It is responsible for all communication and media needs of the Adventist Church in the South Pacific. These include media ministries, public relations, marketing, design, news dissemination and the production of resources such as books and DVDs.
The Adventist Media Network is the result of a merger of the Adventist Media Centre, the communication and public relations department of the church in the South Pacific and Signs Publishing Company
Signs Publishing Company
Signs Publishing Company is a Seventh-day Adventist publishing house in Warburton, Victoria, Australia.-History:Three Adventist preachers, Stephen Haskell, John Corliss and Mendel Israel, a printer, Henry Scott, and an experienced door-to-door literature salesperson, William Arnold, travelled from...
. It is situated at two locations, Warburton
Warburton, Victoria
Warburton is a town in Victoria, Australia, 72 km east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the Shire of Yarra Ranges. At the 2006 Census, Warburton had a population of 2288....
, Victoria
Victoria (Australia)
Victoria is the second most populous state in Australia. Geographically the smallest mainland state, Victoria is bordered by New South Wales, South Australia, and Tasmania on Boundary Islet to the north, west and south respectively....
(Signs Publishing Company) and Wahroonga
Wahroonga, New South Wales
Wahroonga is a suburb on the Upper North Shore of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Wahroonga is located 22 kilometres north-west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of Ku-ring-gai Council and Hornsby Shire....
, New South Wales
New South Wales
New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...
(Adventist Media Network headquarters)
Adventist Media Network publishes a weekly news-magazine called the Record
Record (magazine)
The Record is the fortnightly news magazine of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the South Pacific region of the church. It's office is located in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, and connected with the Adventist Media Network...
for church members, a bi-monthly magazine called Edge targeted towards the youth and a monthly lifestyle magazine, Signs of the Times
Signs of the Times (Australia)
Signs of the Times is a monthly subscription magazine published by Signs Publishing Company, a Seventh-day Adventist publishing house, for Australia and New Zealand...
(Australian version).
President
List of presidents:Australasian Union Conference:
- 1894–1897 W. C. WhiteWilliam C. WhiteWilliam Clarence "Willie" White was secretary of the Ellen G. White Estate. He was placed in charge of his mother's estate at her death in 1915. "Willie," as his mother referred to him as, took on additional responsibility in helping his mother travel, write, and publish after his father's death...
- 1897–1901 A. G. DaniellsArthur Grosvenor DaniellsArthur Grosvenor Daniells was a Seventh-day Adventist minister and administrator, most notably the longest serving president of the General Conference....
- 1901–1905 G. A. Irwin
- 1905–1909 Ole Andres OlsenOle Andres OlsenOle Andres Olsen was a Seventh-day Adventist minister and administrator. He was General Conference president from 1888 to 1897....
- 1909–1916 J. E. Fulton
- 1916–1922 C. H. Watson
- April–June 1922 C. K. Meyers
Australasian Division:
- 1922–1926 J. E. Fulton
- 1926–1930 C. H. Watson
- 1930–1936 W. G. Turner
- 1936–1944 C. H. Watson
- 1944–1946 E. B. Rudge
- 1946–1948 W. G. Turner
- 1948–1951 N. C. Wilson
- 1951–1954 F. A. Mote
- 1954–1962 F. G. Clifford
- 1962–1970 L. C. Naden
- 1970–1976 R. R. Frame
- 1976–1983 K. S. Parmenter
- 1983–1985 W. R. L. Scragg
South Pacific Division:
- 1985–1990 W. R. L. Scragg
- 1990–1997(?) Bryan W. Ball
- 1998–2007 Laurie J. Evans
- 2008 – Barry Oliver
Further reading
- M. F. Krause, The Seventh-Day Adventist Church in Australia 1885-1900 (M.A. thesis, University of Sydney, 1968)
- Arthur J. Ferch, ed., Symposium on Adventist History in the South Pacific: 1885–1918. Sydney: South Pacific Division, 1986. One review is Jonathan M. ButlerJonathan M. ButlerJonathan M. Butler is an historian of religion. He was formerly employed as a lecturer by the Seventh-day Adventist Church.- Biography :Jonathan Butler completed his doctorate at the University of Chicago....
, Church History 58:4 (1989), p545–546 - Arthur PatrickArthur PatrickArthur Nelson Patrick is a Seventh-day Adventist theologian and historian. He is an honorary senior research fellow at Avondale College in New South Wales, Australia...
, Ellen Gould White and the Australian Women, 1891-1900 (M.Litt. thesis, University of New England, 1984) - Clapham, Noel et al. "Seventh-day Adventists in the South Pacific 1885-1985" Signs Publishing, Warburton, Victoria, Australia, 1985
- General Conference Archives - For official church publications
- "Seventh-day Adventists in the South Pacific: A Review of Sources" by Arthur Patrick. Journal of Religious HistoryJournal of Religious HistoryThe Journal of Religious History is an international peer-reviewed academic journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the Religious History Association. It covers current work in the history of religions...
14 (June 1987): 307–26. - http://adventist.org.au/about_adventists/history/adventism_in_the_south_pacific/australia
- Journal of Pacific Adventist History, also known as Pacific Adventist Heritage, ed. David Hay. Published twice yearly, it began in 1991. Covers mission in the South Pacific Islands. Available freely online.
- "Church — and how it works" by Barry Oliver. Record 114:8 (March 7, 2009), p10–11; first in a series of articles on Adventist church structure in the South Pacific Division
External links
- Official website
- Seventh-day Adventist Online Yearbook entry
- Map of the SPD
- Statistics from the General Conference Office of Archives & Statistics
- Education History – Milton Hook Series
- "Ellen White and South Pacific Adventism: Retrospect and Prospect" by Arthur Patrick
- "Special Cluster: Under the Southern Cross" section from Spectrum 18:5 (June 1988)
- "South Pacific" articles as cataloged in the Seventh-day Adventist Periodical Index (SDAPI)