The
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 ...
in
New Zealand
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is formally organised as the New Zealand Pacific Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists (often abbreviated as NZPUC), a sub-entity of the
South Pacific Division of Seventh-day Adventists. The membership of the Union is 20,943 as of 30 June 2020. The population to membership ratio is 1 Adventist to every 268 people. The headquarters for the Union is in
Auckland
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,
New Zealand
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.
History
Stephen N. Haskell, an Adventist
missionary
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visited New Zealand four months after his first visit. He began marketing ''The Bible Echo'' and
''Signs of the Times'' (Australia/New Zealand version), two religious papers of the church. His truth was soon accepted by Edward Hare and his wife, who ran the boarding house in which he stayed. His success caused the Seventh-day Adventist church in America to send
Arthur G. Daniells, an evangelist and former teacher, to further the work. Daniells' preaching soon paved way for the first Seventh-day Adventist church in New Zealand was opened in
Ponsonby (a suburb of
Auckland
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), on 15 October 1887. Daniells later became the
world president of the church.
Organisations
The union operates six educational facilities in
New Zealand
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and the
Pacific Islands
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between elementary and secondary school level. Its network of schools educates nearly 2000 students.
Ministries of the NZPUC
/ref> The church also operates a radio station in Tahiti
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, six Adventist Book Centres, a nursing home and retirement centre and Sanitarium Health Food Company
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F ...
NZ.
Conferences and missions
* North New Zealand Conferencebr>website
* South New Zealand Conference
* French Polynesia Missio
website
* Cook Islands Mission
* New Caledonia Mission
* Pitcairn Field Station
See also
* South Pacific Division of Seventh-day Adventists
* 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 ...
* North New Zealand Conference of Seventh-day Adventists
References
Other resources:
* ''Seventh-day Adventist Encyclopedia''
* {{cite book
, last = Brown
, first = Reginald K.
, title = Beginnings Down Under: The Story of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Australia New Zealand and Papua New Guinea
, publisher = 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 ...
, date = 2005
, location = Victoria
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* Victoria (Australia), a state of the Commonwealth of Australia
* Victoria, British Columbia, provincial capital of British Columbia, Canada
* Victoria (mythology), Roman goddess of Victory
* Victoria, Seychelle ...
, Australia
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, isbn = 0-646-44928-1
* ''In and Out of the World: Seventh-day Adventists in New Zealand'', ed. P. H. Ballis
External links
New Zealand Pacific Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists
official website
New Zealand Beginnings
on the official Adventist website
Adventist Directory
New Zealand Pacific Union Conference
Adventist Statistics
for the New Zealand Pacific Union Conference
Adventist Yearbook
entry on the New Zealand Pacific Union Conference
History of the Seventh-day Adventist Church
Adventism by country
Seventh-day Adventist Church in Oceania