New Zealand Pacific Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists

New Zealand Pacific Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists

The Seventh-day Adventist Church in New Zealand is formally organised as the New Zealand Pacific Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists (often abbreviated as NZPUC), a subentity of the South Pacific Division of Seventh-day Adventists. As of December 31st 2008, church membership stands at 16,943.[1] The population to member ratio is 1 Adventist to every 280 people.[2]

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History

See also: South Pacific Division of Seventh-day Adventists

Stephen N. Haskell, an Adventist missionary 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), on October 15, 1887.[3] Daniells later became the world president of the church.

Organisations

The union operates 6 educational facilities in New Zealand and the Pacific Islands between elementary and secondary school level. Its network of schools educates nearly 2000 students.[4] The church also operates a radio station in Tahiti, 6 Adventist Book Centres, a nursing home and retirement centre and Sanitarium Health Food Company NZ.

Conferences and missions

  • South New Zealand Conference
  • French Polynesia Mission
  • French Polynesia Mission - Secteur 3
  • Cook Islands Mission
  • New Caledonia Mission

See also

References

  1. ^ SPD Statistical Report 2008
  2. ^ Adventist Directory
  3. ^ Seventh-day Adventist Church South Pacific New Zealand
  4. ^ Ministries of the NZPUC

Other resources:

  • Seventh-day Adventist Encyclopedia
  • Brown, Reginald K. (2005). Beginnings Down Under: The Story of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Australia New Zealand and Papua New Guinea. Victoria, Australia: Signs Publishing Company. ISBN 0 646 44928 1. 
  • In and Out of the World: Seventh-day Adventists in New Zealand, ed. P. H. Ballis

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