Adventist Facts

[Gregory Matthews]

Adventist Facts:  The following material has been taken from the article, "Why I Believe in a Big Adventism," written by Alexander Carpenter, and published in volume 52, Issue 3, 2024 of Spectrum magazine.  My presentation below has been changed in format from what it was in the article, this  has included changing the article wording from what was published in the article.

*  The number of International Adventists is close to the total population of people in Australia.

*  There are at least 180 nations that have fewer members than does the SDA Chruch.

*  The Iceland Conference owns a property that is worth in the tens of millions of dollars.  This is presently quite controversial.

*  The Southern Asia Division owns land worth in the hundreds of millions of dollars.

*  Sahmyook Foods (South Korea) and Sanitarium Health and Wellbeing Company (Australia) are each worth several hundred million dollars.

*  In 2023, global Adventists paid some $3.11 billion in tithe.

*  Adventist health organizations in the United States generate close to $40 billion in annual revenue.

&  Florida-based AdventHealth  has some 50 hospitals and more than 92,000 employees, which makes it the largest not-for-profit Protestant healthcare provider in the United States.

*  Internationally the SDA Education system supports 117,858 teachers and more than two million students in 9,862 schools.

*  In Jamaica one out of every twelve people is an SDA.  SDAs have served as Prime Minister and Governor General.

*  In Zambia an New Genea SDAS have served in government positions.

*  If all SDA institutions were to become one group on the New York Stock Exchange, they would be larger than Honda Motor Company.

 

NOTE:  In another article the active membership of the Iceland Conference is suggested to be from 100 to 150.