Many lifelong church members are unaware of the organizational structure and operations of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. This article seeks to clarify the history, structure and role of the Columbia Union Conference and its members within the church.
Why do conferences and unions hold constituency meetings, and how do its members nominate and elect leaders? Celeste Ryan Blyden, Columbia Union Conference executive secretary, explains the “nuts and bolts” of this in-depth process.
Monte Sahlin, one of the foremost researchers of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in North America and a former pastor and church administrator, has passed away. He was 76 years old.
In his report, Marcellus T. Robinson noted he’s been president of the union for almost a year and highlighted the many ways he’s seeing God working throughout the territory, especially in the evangelism collaboration between the Allegheny East and Chesapeake conferences.
