Fueled by membership growth in Latin America, Africa and Asia, the Seventh-day Adventist Church is reporting that its membership worldwide climbed in one year by more than 1 million to 13.6 million

Christian Century, Dec 28, 2004

Fueled by membership growth in Latin America, Africa and Asia, the Seventh-day Adventist Church is reporting that its membership worldwide climbed in one year by more than 1 million to 13.6 million. The evangelistic Protestant, Saturday-sabbath church, whose headquarters is in Silver Spring, Maryland, also has extensive medical and health ministries.

The denomination was formally organized during an era of the mid-19th century known as one of the religious "Great Awakenings" in the U.S., but its current membership in North America represents just 8 percent of its total.