The North American Division (NAD) of Seventh-day Adventists is a sub-entity of the
General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, which oversees the Church's work in the
United States,
Canada, French possessions of
St. Pierre and Miquelon
Saint Pierre and Miquelon (), officially the Territorial Collectivity of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon (french: link=no, Collectivité territoriale de Saint-Pierre et Miquelon ), is a self-governing territorial overseas collectivity of France in t ...
, the British overseas territory of
Bermuda, the US territories in the Pacific of
Guam,
Wake Island,
Northern Mariana Islands, and three states in free association with the United States -
Palau, the
Marshall Islands, and the
Federated States of Micronesia. Its headquarters, long in the same building as the
General Conference, moved to separate quarters in
Columbia, Maryland in 2017. , the Division's membership was 1,267,711.
Organization
The North American Division is divided into nine Union Conferences, one National Church, and one attached Mission. The Unions and National Church are divided into local Conferences. Nine of these local Conferences are African-American Conferences (AAC) that share the same territory with other local Conferences.
History
See also
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Seventh-day Adventist Church
The Seventh-day Adventist Church is an Adventist Protestant Christian denomination which is distinguished by its observance of Saturday, the seventh day of the week in the Christian (Gregorian) and the Hebrew calendar, as the Sabbath, and ...
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List of Seventh-day Adventist hospitals
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List of Seventh-day Adventist secondary schools
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List of Seventh-day Adventist colleges and universities
References
External links
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{{Seventh-day Adventist Colleges and Universities in North America
History of the Seventh-day Adventist Church
Seventh-day Adventist Church in North America