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, its emphasis on the imminent Second Coming (advent) of Jesus Christ, and its annihilationist soteriology. The denomination grew out of the Millerite movement in the United States during the mid-19th century and it was formally established in 1863. Among its co-founders was Ellen G. White, whose extensive writings are still held in high regard by the church.
The Seventh Day Adventist Reform Movement is a Protestant Christian denomination in the Sabbatarian Adventist movement that formed from a schism in the European Seventh-day Adventist Church during World War I over the position its European church leaders took on Sabbath observance and on committing Adventists to the bearing of arms in military service for Imperial Germany in World War I.
It Is Written is an internationally broadcast Seventh-day Adventist Christian television program founded in 1956 by George Vandeman. Its title comes from the Gospel of Matthew: "It is written, 'Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.'" The programs are produced by the Adventist Media Center in California.
The Seventh-day Adventist Church has a number of supporting, parachurch, independent, self-supporting and other such organizations that work adjunct or in association with the official church.
Hope Channel International, Inc. is a Christian lifestyle television network and is a subsidiary company of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. The network operates globally, with 67 Hope Channels worldwide, each providing programs contextualized to the language and culture of their audience. Focusing on balanced, Christian living, Hope Channel programs cover topics such as mind, body, spirit, family, and community. Hope Channel is available on DirecTV channel 368 in the United States, cable, satellite, multiple channels are available via Roku, Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, Android TV and Chromecast devices, Hope Channel app available at App Store for Apple users and at Google Play for Android users, via FaithStream and online at www.HopeTV.org. Derek Morris serves as president of Hope Channel International.
Nuevo Tiempo is a Spanish Christian TV channel and radio station for Central and South America, a version in Spanish language of the Brazilian channel Novo Tempo. Produced at the Adventist Media Center-Brazil from Nova Friburgo, Rio de Janeiro. There are repeaters stations in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru & Uruguay. It is owned by the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Nuevo Tiempo features programming produced by Adventist churches, colleges, hospitals and institutions, covering religious, health, educational and family life topics. Nuevo Tiempo is a 24-hour broadcaster on satellite and cable networks in South America and is available over-the-air in some communities.
John Nevins Andrews was a Seventh-day Adventist minister, the first official Seventh-day Adventist missionary, writer, editor, and scholar. Andrews University, a university owned and operated by the Seventh-day Adventist church, is named after him.
Loma Linda Broadcasting Network (LLBN) is a non-profit, community and variety television, Christian broadcasting network in Loma Linda, California founded in 1996. Broadcast can be received via GloryStar Satellite Systems - Galaxy 19, Internet video streaming on each website, IPTV services such as Roku and Roku devices, Joozoor TV and many more, and Verizon FiOS and cable/low and high power TV stations in select areas. LLBN English broadcasts on Glorystar channel 105, along with LLBN Arabic on Glorystar channel 405 and LLBN Latino on Glorystar channel 505. It is located in Loma Linda which is known as one of only five blue zones worldwide from the surrounding Seventh-day Adventist community from which it draws for its programs, with values and lifestyle centered on the Seventh-day Adventist Church and from the Loma Linda University and Hospital nearby.
K19FD-D is a low-power television station serving Camp Verde, Arizona. It broadcasts in digital on UHF channel 19 from its transmitter located on Squaw Peak south of town, and is an affiliate of The Hope Channel, the flagship station of the Adventist Television Network (ATN), operated by the Seventh-day Adventist Church. The station is locally owned by Central States Communications.
K11UU-D is a low-power independent television station in Pago Pago, American Samoa, owned by American Samoa Adventist Media Ministry, Inc.
Wayne Hillard Hooper was widely known as a gospel music composer, arranger and as a singer in the King's Heralds quartet for the Voice of Prophecy radio program.
Mark A. Finley is the former host and director of It Is Written, for which he traveled around the world as a televangelist. He was the first Seventh-day Adventist pastor to do a satellite evangelistic series. He also served as one vice-president out of nine for the Seventh-day Adventist Church, and has written over 74 published books.
The Romanian Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists is Romania's seventh-largest religious body, part of the worldwide Seventh-day Adventist Church. At the 2011 census, 85,902 Romanians declared themselves to be Seventh-Day Adventists. The church put its own membership at 62,215 in 2020. Ethnically, in 2002, they were 83.5% Romanians, 9.7% Hungarians, 4.9% Roma, 1.4% Ukrainians and 0.5% belonged to other groups. The denomination has 1,185 church buildings and some 340 pastors. It originates in the 19th century and is divided into six local conferences, standing for and named after some of the country's main historical regions: Banat, Northern Transylvania, Southern Transylvania, Moldavia, Muntenia and Oltenia.
The Trans-European Division (TED) of Seventh-day Adventists is a sub-entity of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, which coordinates the Church's operations in 22 European countries: Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Channel Islands, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, the Faeroe Islands, Finland, Greece, Greenland, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, the Isle of Man, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Montenegro, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Serbia, Slovenia, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. Its headquarters is in St Albans in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1928, the division membership as of June 30, 2021 is 88,273.
Novo Tempo is a Portuguese Christian TV channel and Radio Station for Brazil. It is owned by the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Novo Tempo features programming produced by Adventist churches, colleges, hospitals and institutions, covering religious, health, educational and family life topics. Novo Tempo is a 24-hour broadcaster on satellite and cable networks in Brazil and is available over-the-air in some communities.
Speranța TV is a Christian television channel in Romania, broadcast in the Romanian language. It is owned by the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Speranța TV features programming produced by Adventist churches, colleges, hospitals and institutions, covering religious, health, educational and family life topics. Speranța TV is a 24-hour broadcaster on satellite.
Hope Channel Deutsch is a German Christian TV channel for Germany and Eastern Europe. It is operated by Stimme der Hoffnung in Germany which is owned by the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Programmes are also broadcast in Russian. Hope Channel Deutsch features programming produced by Adventist churches, colleges, hospitals and institutions, covering religious, health, educational and family life topics. Hope Channel Deutsch is a 24-hour broadcaster on satellite.
Hope Channel Philippines is a religious network of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Philippines. Its TV stations are owned by Gateway UHF Television Broadcasting, while its radio stations are owned by Digital Broadcasting Corporation. Founded and launched on September 26, 2010, in the South Philippines and in January 2011 in Luzon and Visayas. It was first seen on UHF Channel 25 in Cagayan de Oro in the Northern Mindanao region.
Hope FM is an English and iTaukei language Christian, radio station in Fiji. The station broadcasts on the 107 MHz to the cities of Suva, Navua, Nausori, Nadi and Lautoka. The station also broadcasts on line.
DXMA, broadcasting as Hope Radio 104.3, is a radio station owned and operated by Adventist Media, the media arm of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. The station's studio is located at #5 Palm Dr., Brgy. Buhangin Proper (Bajada), Davao City and its transmitter is located at Shrine Hills, Matina, Davao City.
