Seventh-day Adventist Church
Protestant Christian denomination
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| 2024 | ADRA continues its developmental work in Bangladesh, with ongoing efforts that have grown since 1997, though not at the exact rate originally anticipated. |
| 2024 | ADRA expanded its global outreach to 120 countries, implementing over 1,600 projects that reached over 21 million lives. |
| 2023 | Hans Diehl, a physician and founder of the Complete Health Improvement Program (CHIP), passed away. |
| 2023 | Newest hospital in the list: AdventHealth Palm Coast Parkway, indicating ongoing expansion of the Seventh-day Adventist hospital network. |
| 2023 | The Seventh-day Adventist Church expanded its educational reach to 9,845 institutions across over 100 countries, serving more than 2.17 million students worldwide. |
| 2022 | Seventh-day Adventist Church became the largest Protestant health care provider globally, operating 1,000 medical facilities worldwide with 36,000 beds and 78,000 employees, serving 1.5 million inpatient admissions and 20 million outpatient visits. |
| 2022 | Rocky Mountain Conference (RMC) approved ordaining women pastors. |
| 2021 | Surangel Whipps Jr. became President of Palau |
| 2021 | Milly Babalanda became Minister for Presidency of Cabinet of Uganda |
| 2021 | Had 1.2 million members worshiping in Canada and the United States. |
| 2020 | Robert Gentry, a nuclear physicist known for young Earth creationist claims, died. |
| 2020 | Iraqi Post released a set of eight commemorative stamps honoring Christian churches in Iraq, which included a photograph of the Baghdad Seventh-day Adventist Church. |
| 2020 | Experienced the lowest membership increase in 16 years due to the COVID-19 pandemic, adding only 803,000 members. |
| 2019 | Barbara O'Neill was banned indefinitely from providing health services and education due to dangerous health advice |
| 2019 | Leonard Lee Bailey, a world-renowned heart surgeon known for transplanting a baboon's heart into a premature-born baby, passed away. |
| 2019 | Manasseh Sogavare began his fourth term as Prime Minister of the Solomon Islands |
| 2019 | A new Roseville shared service center replaced the previous corporate office. Additionally, Adventist Health was among six organizations awarded the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award for Performance Excellence. |
| 2019 | Reached 21 million baptized members globally. |
| 2018 | Phyllis B. Acosta, a public health researcher who pioneered nutritional therapy for phenylketonuria management, died. |
| 2018 | Del Delker passed away after a long career in sacred music. |
| 2017 | Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie became Chief Executive Officer of Forestry Commission of Ghana, serving until 2020 |
| 2017 | Established membership in almost every country and territory worldwide, with only 10 exceptions. |
| 2016 | Andrew Holness began his second term as Prime Minister of Jamaica |
| 2016 | Hollywood film Hacksaw Ridge was released, depicting the true story of Desmond Doss, a Seventh-Day Adventist medic who showed extraordinary bravery during World War II by saving at least 75 wounded American soldiers in a single night on Maeda Escarpment in Okinawa, ultimately being awarded the Medal of Honor. |
| 2016 | The Church released the film Tell the World, expanding its media evangelism efforts. |
| 2015 | Jioji Konousi Konrote became President of Fiji |
| 2015 | Seventh-day Adventists celebrated 100 years of presence on Montserrat. |
| 2015 | During the General Conference session in San Antonio, Texas, the church made changes to the wording of several fundamental beliefs, further refining its theological position. |
| 2015 | Became the most racially diverse denomination in the United States, with a membership composition of 37% white, 32% black, 15% Hispanic, 8% Asian, and 8% other or mixed. |
| July 8 2015 | At the General Conference Business Session in San Antonio, Texas, delegates voted 1,381-977 against allowing divisions to ordain women, maintaining the current policy of commissioning women but ordaining only men. |
| January 22 2015 | Christianity Today recognized the Seventh-day Adventist Church as the 'fifth-largest Christian communion worldwide' in its January 22nd issue. |
| 2014 | Frank Jobe, an orthopedist and sports medicine physician who worked for the Los Angeles Dodgers, passed away. |
| 2014 | Manasseh Sogavare began his third term as Prime Minister of the Solomon Islands |
| 2014 | ADRA International responded to approximately 60 emergencies worldwide, directly benefiting more than 127,000 people. |
| 2014 | Review and Herald Publishing Association merged with Pacific Press Publishing Association, with a board vote of 153-to-66 in favor of the merger. |
| 2013 | Opening of Loma Linda University Children's Hospital, representing continued growth and specialization in Seventh-day Adventist healthcare. |
| 2013 | Review and Herald Publishing Association's revenue dramatically dropped to $21.8 million from its previous $45.8 million in 1985. |
| 2013 | The John Loughborough School in Tottenham, London, England was closed. |
| November 11 2013 | US Post Office issued a Medal of Honor commemorative stamp featuring Seventh-day Adventist US Army medic Desmond Doss, highlighting his unique status as a conscientious objector who received the highest military decoration for bravery. |
| October 27 2013 | Sandra Roberts became the first woman to lead a Seventh-day Adventist conference when elected president of the Southeastern California Conference, though not officially recognized by the worldwide church. |
| September 1 2013 | First woman ordained in the Netherlands Union. |
| May 30 2013 | Netherlands Union voted to ordain female pastors, recognizing them as equal to male colleagues. |
| May 12 2013 | Danish Union voted to treat men and women ministers equally and suspend ordinations until the next General Conference session. |
| April 2013 | Church celebrated its 150th anniversary with over 17,000,000 members. |
| 2012 | Samuel Ongeri served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kenya |
| 2012 | Pitcairn Island issued a stamp featuring Roy Clark (1893-1980), who served multiple roles including island postmaster, schoolmaster, Adventist church elder, and historian, alongside his wife May. |
| August 19 2012 | Pacific Union Conference voted to ordain without regard to gender. |
| July 29 2012 | Columbia Union Conference voted to authorize ordination without regard to gender. |
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