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*Little, J. I. (2004). [http://books.google.ca/books?id=TD-KAzjUITAC&pg=PA177&dq=j.+i.+little,+%22chapter+five%22&hl=en&ei=NdYMTr20KIOtsALizOXlBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&sqi=2&ved=0CC0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=j.%20i.%20little%2C%20%22chapter%20five%22&f=false Millenial Invasion: Millerism in the Eastern Townships of Lower Canada.] In R. Connors & A. C. Gow (Eds.), ''Anglo-American millennialism, from Milton to the Millerites'' (pp. 177-204). Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. ISSN: 0081-8607; ISBN: 90-04-13821-8 |
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Seventh-day Adventist Church in Canada | |
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Classification | Protestant |
Orientation | Adventist |
Polity | Modified presbyterian polity |
President | Mark Johnson |
Region | Canada |
Founder | Joseph Bates, James White, Ellen G. White, J. N. Andrews |
Origin | May 21, 1863 Battle Creek, Michigan |
Aid organization | Adventist Development and Relief Agency |
Other name(s) | Adventist church, SDA (informal), SDACC |
The Seventh-day Adventist Church in Canada (SDACC) is organized as a subentity of the North American Division of Seventh-day Adventists (SDA). The Adventist presence in Canada dates back to the early and mid-1800s and the Millerite movement. William Miller, Joshua Himes, and Josiah Litch all helped build the Millerlite cause. Canada and the French possessions of St. Pierre and Miquelon comprise its territory. Its administrative units are the British Columbia, Alberta, Manitoba-Saskatchewan, Ontario, Quebec, and Maritime Conferences and the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Newfoundland and Labrador. The 2011 Seventh-day Adventist Yearbook lists 356 churches and a membership of 61,468. [1] Adventists enterprises include worship services in local congregations, annual regional "camp meetings", the publishing of tracts and journals, lengthy evangelistic meetings, and the operation of schools, medical facilities, and humanitarian enterprises.
Early History
Millerites in Canada
William Miller traveled in response to invitations. This led him to the Eastern Townships of Quebec.
The Seventh-day Adventist Church developed from the Millerite movement of the 1830s and 40s. William Miller, Joshua Himes, and Josiah Litch all visited Canada. Miller's sister lived in the Eastern Townships of Quebec. Josiah Litch lived in that district and led in Millerite activities there. Canada became an integral part of their activities. The interest in Miller's teachings was extensive in the Canadas and the Maritimes. [2] Under the leadership of Josiah Litch, the first Millerite camp meeting took place in Canada, at Hadley, Quebec.
After disappointment of October 22, 1844, Millerites developed into several divergent groups. The Sabbatarian group led by the Whites, Joseph Bates and others sought out the scattered Millerites and presented the Sabbath to them. In the early 1850s Joseph Bates and Hiram Edson traveled along the northern shore of Lake Ontario trudging through knee-deep snow seeking out the Millerites. Thirty years later, the Adventist presence in Canada was still in its nascent stage. Twenty more years and Adventists formally organized the Canadian Union Conference following which the Canadian church began to grow.
The First Organized Seventh-day Adventist Congregation
The first Seventh-day Adventist church in Canada was at South Stukely. It organized on September 30, 1877, [3] with 16 members. [4]
1901-1913
In the year 1901, the Seventh-day Adventist Church introduced new mid-level administrative units they called "Union Conferences". These union conferences took over much of the oversight of the local conferences from the General Conference Committee. On the East coast of the United States, the Eastern Union Conference was created. The first session of this union conference took place between November 27 and December 5, 1901, at South Lancaster, Massachusetts. [5] During this end of year session, a number of meetings were held with members of the General Conference Committee along with representatives from Canada. The purpose of the meetings was to organize a Canadian Union Conference. Members of the General Conference Committee present included A. G. Daniells, W. C. White, W. W. Prescott, S. N. Haskell, H. W. Cottrell, I. H. Evans, and Frederick Griggs. The representatives from Canada were J. W. Collie, S. A. Farnsworth, G. E. Langdon, H. J. Farman, I. A. Ford, James Hannah, and W. R. Andrews. Canadian representative I. A. Ford was elected Secretary of the meeting. By vote, all present were constituted a committee of the whole for the transaction of business. On motion of Professor Prescott, it was voted to proceed with the organization of a Canadian Union Conference. They agreed that their work would go into effect on January 1, 1902 if two thirds of the Canadian churches agreed. [6]
1914-1932
1932-1952
The depression affected denominational finances. In 1932, the General Conference leadership advised that some of the Canadian conferences consolidate. The Ontario and Quebec confences became the Ontario-Quebec Conference. Manitoba and Saskatchewan merged into one administrative entitiy, the Manitoba-Saskatchewan Conference.
1952-1980
1980-2011
General Conference Session, Toronto, 2000
Statistics
Canadian SDA Membership reported for:
- 1901. 885
- 1911. 1951
- 1921. 5072
- 1931. 6631
- 1941. 9275
- 1951. 11675
- 1961. 14969
- 1971. 19307
- 1981. 31398
- 1991. 40047
- 2001. 49632
- 2011. 61468
The Presidents
- W. H. Thurston, 1901-1909
- William Guthrie, 1909-1912
- M. N. Campbell, 1912-1917
Eastern Canadian Union
- A. V. Olsen, 1917-1920
- F. W. Stray, 1920-1924
- Charles F. McVagh, 1924-1928
- W. C. Moffett, 1928-1932
Western Canadian Union
Canadian Union Conference
- M. N. Campbell, 1932-1936
- W. B. Ochs, 1936-1943
- H. L. Rudy, 1943-1950
- W. A. Nelson, 1950-1962
- James W. Bothe, 1962-1973
- L. L. Reile, 1973-1981
- James W. Wilson, 1981-1989
- Douglas D. Devnich, 1989-1993
- Orville Parchment, 1994-2001
- Daniel R. Jackson, 2002-2010
- Mark A. Johnson, 2010-
National Organizations
Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA)
Canadian University College
Kingsway College
VOAR
Christian Record Services
It Is Written Canada
Began in...
1982, Feyerabend becomes new Associate Speaker for It Is Written [7]
1995, Henry Feyerabend becomes speaker for It Is Written Canada.
Local Conferences
The Seventh-day Adventist Church in Canada comprises seven smaller subdivisions of "local Conferences".
Newfoundland
The SDA Church built radio station VOAC in 1933 and changed its name to VOAR in 1938. [8]
Maritimes
The Maritime Conference organized in 1902. [9]
Quebec
In 1880, the Quebec Conference organized. [9]
Ontario
In 1890, the Ontario Conference organized. [9]
Branson Hospital
Heritage Green
Six Nations SDA Church, earlier the Iroquois church and the Kenyengeh church [10] IROQUOIS, KENYENGEH, AND LYNDEN. by B. B. Noftsger
Sister Belle Johnson has begun a church school at the Iroquois church, and is doing all she can to keep up the interest.
Manitoba-Saskatchewan
The Manitoba Conference organized in 1903. [9]
The Saskatchewan Conference organized in 1912. [9]
Battleford Academy
The story of Mary Neufeld and women in ministry.
Mary graduated from Battleford Academy in 1925. She was in charge of the Conference's Sabbath School work and would preach in the churches.
Woman's Place Seventh Day Adventist Women in Church and Society Rosa Taylor Banks Review and Herald Pub Assoc, 1992 - Religion
Sunnyside Adventist Care Centre, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan [11]
Alberta
Adventists first came to Alberta in 1895. They were colporteurs Thomas Astleford and George W. Sowler. Sowler was the field agent for Manitoba and the Northwest, which included Alberta.[12] Astleford and Sowler both sold "Bible Readings".[13] Astleford left Winnipeg and went to Edmonton. Sowler stopped off at Calgary and started work there. Sowler sold about two hundred copies of Bible Readings in Calgary. He also sold books to the ranchers from Calgary to Fort MacLeod from the Bow River to the foothills. He worked in Edmonton and Fort Saskatchewan and the mountain towns as far as Revelstoke. Eastward, he worked along the main line of the C.P.R. to Port Arthur.[14]
Thomas Astleford began in the Edmonton. He then sold books in the towns along the railroad to the south. His work led to the first converts in the province; Gustave Litke of Leduc and Dr. Menzel and his family, of Stony Plain. Litke shared his new faith with his German friends. In response to their request, H. J. Dirksen was sent from Manitoba. Dirksen led in the organizing of a church at Leduc on May 14, 1898, the first SDA church in the Northwest Territories.[15]
Up until 1903, the work of the Adventist church in Alberta was administered as part of the Manitoba Mission. Beginning in 1901, the Adventist Church reorganized itself to include union conferences. The Northern Union Conference, established in 1902, managed the work of the Adventist church in Minnesota, South Dakota, North Dakota, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta.[16] In 1906, the Alberta Mission was organized into the Alberta Conference. [9] The newly organized Alberta Conference consisted of about 180 members.[17] A year later, the Western Canadian Union Conference was formed. It comprised the conferences of British Columbia, Alberta, and Manitoba and the Saskatchewan Mission.[18] (See the map)
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The Hobema Reserve. To meet the needs of the Hobema Reserve, the Alberta Conference recently (1983) employed Basil VanDieman, who, while teaching public school, had been ministering to a small native church on the Six Nations Reserve in Ontario, Canada. But in this time of economic challenge when most confer- ences are forced to reduce their working forces, denominational salaries for full-time native workers will be very limited. [19]
British Columbia
The British Columbia conference organized in 1902. [9]
Cariboo Adventist Academy, Williams Lake
Okanagon Academy
Fraser Valley Academy
Fountain View Academy (independent)
The Church's Relationship to Government
Society status as a denomination
Education
- Ontario and private schools other than Roman Catholic
- Newfoundland, parochial schools and constitutional change
- Status of private schools across Canada
Freedom of Religion
- Sunday Closing Legislation
- Sabbath Observance and Employment
- Labour Unions
Health Care
- Branson Hospital
- Lindsay treatment rooms and Sadie Baker
- Knowlton Hospital
Adventists and the Courts
Canadian Adventist Messenger
The official journal of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Canada is the Canadian Adventist Messenger. The first edition of the Messenger
Endnotes
- ^ Seventh-day Adventist Church in Canada. Seventh-day Adventist Online Yearbook Retrieved July 14, 2011
- ^ Monteith p. 12
- ^ "News, SDA Church in Canada, Commemorative Package of Seventh-day Adventist Stamp Available to Members" (PDF). Canadian Adventist Messenger. 69 (5, 6). Oshawa, Ontario: Seventh-day Adventist Church in Canada: 18. May–June 2000. ISSN 0702-5084. Retrieved June 28, 2011.
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- ^ Daniells, A. G. (December 24, 1901). "Eastern Union Conference" (PDF). Review and Herald. 78 (52). Battle Creek, Michigan: Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association: 11, 12. Retrieved July 10, 2011. Daniells mentions that the co-founder of the SDA Church, Ellen G. White, was present at this gathering in Massachusetts. He also mentions that the name of the union conference was changed to the Atlantic Union Conference.
- ^ Daniells, A. G.; Ford, I. A. (December 17, 1901). "Organization of the Canadian Union Conference" (PDF). Review and Herald. 78 (51). Battle Creek, Michigan: Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association: 12, 13. Retrieved July 10, 2011.
- ^ "Feyerabend New Associate Speaker for It Is Written" (PDF). Canadian Union Messenger. 51 (16). Oshawa, Ontario: Seventh-day Adventist Church in Canada, Maracle Press Ltd.: 5 September 16, 1982. Retrieved July 16, 2011.
- ^ Webb, Jeffrey A. (2008). The voice of Newfoundland: a social history of the Broadcasting Corporation of Newfoundland, 1939-1949. Toronto, Ontario: University of Toronto Press. pp. 20–23. ISBN 978-0-8020-9820-7.
- ^ a b c d e f g Land, p. 54
- ^ http://www.adventistarchives.org/docs/CUM/CUM19050105-V05-01__B/index.djvu?djvuopts&page=3
- ^ "Facilities: Long Term Care". Your Health. Saskatoon Health Region. 2002–2011. Retrieved July 12, 2012.
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- ^ Bible Readings for the Home Circle 1888
- ^ Western Canadian Tidings. Pioneer Colporteurs in Western Canada. Vol. 8 Calgary, Alberta, December 4, 1918 No. 23 p. 5
- ^ Sudds, D. R. Colporteurs Were First in Alberta. Canadian Union Messenger, October 19, 1966, p. 11
- ^ Yearbook of the Seventh-day Adventist Denomination, 1907, p. 47
- ^ Statistical Report of Seventh-day Adventist Conferences, Missions, and Institutions For the Year Ending December 31, 1906, p. 2
- ^ Yearbook of the Seventh-day Adventist Denomination, 1908, p. 88
- ^ Ministering to North America's natives: the last frontier by A. Leroy Moore. http://www.adventistarchives.org/docs/RH/RH19830630-V160-26__B/index.djvu?djvuopts&page=20
References
- Fortin, Denis (2004). Adventism in Quebec: the dynamics of rural church growth, 1830-1910. Berrien Springs, Michigan: Andrews University Press. p. 202. ISBN 978-1-883925-46-8.
- Land, Gary (2005). Historical dictionary of Seventh-Day Adventists. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press. pp. 53, 54. ISBN 0-8108-5345-0.
- Little, J. I. (2004). Millenial Invasion: Millerism in the Eastern Townships of Lower Canada. In R. Connors & A. C. Gow (Eds.), Anglo-American millennialism, from Milton to the Millerites (pp. 177-204). Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. ISSN: 0081-8607; ISBN: 90-04-13821-8
- Monteith, J. Ernest; Graham, Malcolm (1983). The Lord is my Shepherd: The History of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Canada. College Heights, Alberta, Canada: Canadian Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, Parkland Colour Press. p. 266.
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- Wellcome, Isaac Cummings (1874). History of the second advent message and mission, doctrine and people (Google eBook). Boston: Advent Christian Publication Society. p. 707.
See also
Further reading
- Feyerabend, Henry (2005). Born to Preach: From Canadian Prairie Boy to World Evangelist: The Henry Feyerabend Story. Pacific Press Publishing Association. p. 191. ISBN 0-8163-2086-1.
- State support of religious education: Canada versus the United Nations, Anne F. Bayefsky, Arieh Waldman, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2007 - Law - 1116 pages http://books.google.ca/books?id=dAE5Bmw2qrEC&pg=PA851&dq=Saskatchewan+adventist+history&hl=en&ei=TgQdToiAOcHW0QGvjfXzBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDsQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q&f=false
- The Unguarded Moment: A Surgeon's Discovery of the Barriers to Prescription of Inexpensive, Effective Healthcare in the Form of Therapeutic Exercise, Vert Mooney, Vantage Press, Inc, 2007 - Biography & Autobiography - 273 pages
- How God Has Led, Eva A. Sampson, TEACH Services, Inc., 2004 - Biography & Autobiography - 105 pages, http://books.google.ca/books?id=MLiuOsWPBi4C&dq=Saskatchewan+adventist+history&source=gbs_navlinks_s
External links
- "It Is Written Canada". Retrieved July 16, 2011.
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