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Seventh-day Adventist Church in Canada

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Areas of expertise & Fields of activity:
Economic and Social:
  • Criminal Justice
  • Education
  • Family
  • Human Rights
  • Humanitarian Affairs
  • Justice
  • Labour
  • Religion

    • Social Development:
  • Employment
  • Information and Communications Technologies
  • Social policy
    • Geographic scope: National
    Country of activity:
  • Canada
    • Millennium Development Goals:
  • Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
  • Develop global partnership for development
    • Mission statement:
    Year established:
    Year of registration: 1920
    Organizational structure: The World Headquarters of the Seventh-day Adventist Church is located in Silver Springs, ML This office handles all administrative functions of the world church. Divisions are responsible for administration of regions through throughout the world . Unions are responsible for smaller regions. The Seventh-day Adventist Church in Canada is at the union level in the church. We are responsible for pensions, retirement, health benefits and other administrative functions with respect to SDA employees across Canada. The SDACC has a board composed of members and they pass resolutions with respect to the management of the SDACC. Every five years, delegates chosen to represent the constituency meet to appoint officers. Under the SDACC union office are 7 conferences of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Canada. These conferences are responsible for succoring the local churches and human resources for their regions. They are responsible for education, church membership and humanitarian and other programs for people inside and outside the church.
    Number and type of members: The Members are Seventh-day Adventist members in Canada. There are over 19 Million Seventh-day Adventists world wide. We have Seventh-day Adventist Churches in North America; Inter-American, South America; throughout Europe; the Middle East, Africa, South Africa, Asia- Pacific and India.
    Affiliation with NGO networks: ADRA Canada
    Funding structure:
  • Donations and grants from domestic sources
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