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Who We Are
Welcome to the Northeastern Conference Secretariat website. This is the place where you will find the information on what the needs and challenges of the worldwide Seventh-day Adventist church are that you can help to fill. You will see a variety of needs that will challenge your skills, commitment and adventure.
Message from the
Secretary Dr. Nicardo Delahaye
“Since the inception of our conference in 1945, our mission has been to punch holes in the moral darkness into which sin has plunged us, by vigorously engaging in the spread of the Good News of Salvation. That evangelistic fervor has catapulted our conference to be among one of the largest conferences in the North American Division of Seventh-day Adventists.”
Team member Profile
Dr. Keith Albury
Associate Secretary / Director of Planned Giving & Trust Services
who we are
Conference Profile
For more than 75 years, we’ve been passionate about achieving better results for our clients.
About Us
Mission
Beliefs
Presidents
The Northeastern Conference of Seventh-day Adventists is a religious non-profit organization of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventist that administers 176 churches and 15 parochial schools within the states of Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
The 200 churches, located primarily within the urban centers of the cities within the Conference territory, comprise a membership totaling 60,000 with a congregational demographic make-up of Afro-American/Caribbean, Hispanic, Haitian, Portuguese, Ghanaian and Nigerian members.
In addition to the churches and schools, the Northeastern Conference owns and operates a 98 acre camp located in Hyde Park, New York, and throughout its storied history, has and does operate an annual summer camp program for boys and girls ages 8 through 15.
“To proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ, to transform all people within its territory and prepare them for His imminent return”.
Our Ministries consists of
- Evangelism
- Leadership training
- Community Outreach programs
Seventh-day Adventists accept the Bible as their only creed and hold certain fundamental beliefs to be the teaching of the Holy Scriptures. These beliefs, as set forth here, constitute the church’s understanding and expression of the teaching of Scripture. Revision of these statements may be expected at a General Conference session when the church is led by the Holy Spirit to a fuller understanding of Bible truth or finds better language in which to express the teachings of God’s Holy Word.
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Since our inception as a Conference in 1945, these Presidents have worked with distinction to grow us to where we are now .
- L.H. Bland (1945-1954)
- H.D Singleton (1954-1962)
- R.T. Hudson (1962-1966)
- G.R. Earle (1966-1983)
- Leonard Newton (1983-1987)
- Stennet Brooks (1987-2000)
- Donald G. King (2000)
- Trevor H.C. Baker (2000-2012)
- Daniel L. Honore (2012-2021)
- Abraham Jules (2021-Present)
Frequently Asked Questions
FAQ
For more than 40 years, we’ve been passionate about achieving better results for our clients.
1. The Seventh-day Adventist Church
The religious denomination known as Seventh-day Adventist had its rise about the middle of the nineteenth century. The name is based upon two of the distinctive beliefs they hold, namely, the observance of the Sabbath of the Scriptures, and the imminent, personal second advent of Christ.
In those years, not only in the United States, but in other countries of the world, many students of Bible prophecy became convinced that the second advent was drawing near, and this belief resulted in a great religious awakening, in Britain, in some countries of the Continent of Europe, and in North America.
2. Our Doctrine
“Whether this doctrine is orthodox or not,” wrote the historian Macaulay, in 1829, “many who hold it are distinguished by rank, wealth, and ability. It is preached from pulpits both of the Scottish and of the English church.” One English writer of the time estimated that in the years just before 1840 about 700 clergymen of the church of England were taking part in the awakening movement.
In the United States and Canada came a parallel movement, in which were represented Christians of all the churches. Among prominent leaders in the publishing and evangelistic work of this second advent evangelism were William Miller, a Baptist Layman, of Low Hampton, N.Y., and Joshua V. Himes, a clergyman, of Boston. Monthly and weekly papers devoted to this work were issued in Boston, New York, and many other parts.
3. The movement of a Church
It was from among the Adventists engaged in this movement in America that there arose a small group in 1844, in Washington, N. H., who began to observe the seventh-day Sabbath, as they found it enjoined in the fourth commandment of the Decalogue. Thus came the first Seventh-day Adventists, though the name was not formally adopted until later years.
4. Our Pioneers
Prominent among those who pioneered the work were Joseph Bates, James White, his wife, Mrs Ellen G. White, Hiram Edson, Frederick Wheeler, and S.W. Rhodes. Later came J. H. Waggoner, J.N. Loughborough, J. N. Andrews (who was the first Seventh-day Adventist missionary to be sent overseas from the United States), Uriah Smith, and S. N. Haskell.
4. Our Organization
By 1860 the movement had grown until, in connection with the organization of the first publishing house in Battle Creek, Mich., the denominational name was assumed. The following year saw the beginning of the organization of State conferences of churches, and in 1863 the General Conference was organized, with John Byington as its first president. In order to decentralize and distribute administrative responsibility, local state conferences are grouped in fairly large areas as union conferences, with a union corps of officers. The union conferences in continental areas are grouped again as divisions- as North American, South American, southern Asia, Australasian, etc., covering all continents- each division having its staff of officers….Representatives from each division make up the General Conference committee, with headquarters in [Sliver Springs Maryland].”
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Source: CRB, 1936, Vol. 2, part 1, pp. 27-28