The Columbia Union Conference coordinates the Seventh-day Adventist Church’s work in the Mid-Atlantic United States, where 150,000 members worship in 860 congregations. We provide administrative support to eight conferences; two healthcare networks; 81 early childhood, elementary and secondary schools; a liberal arts university; a health sciences college; a 49 community services centers; 8 camps; 5 book and health food stores and a radio station.
God is love, power, and splendor—and God is a mystery. His ways are far beyond us, but He still reaches out to us. God is infinite yet intimate, three yet one,
all-knowing yet all-forgiving.
Delegates to the 62nd General Conference Session voted to elect Erton C. Köhler as the new president today. Marcellus T. Robinson, Columbia Union Conference president, shares his reaction and how this decision could impact the mission of the church in the Columbia Union.
Story by Lauren Davis, ANN
General Conference president Ted Wilson issued a corrective statement on Friday, July 4, 2025, clarifying remarks he made to delegates the day before, when he read from a 2015 General Conference Administrative Committee (ADCOM) statement about immunization.
Following Wilson’s speech on July 3, church officers were made aware that the immunization statement posted on the official Seventh-day Adventist Church website for the past 10 years was not the version actually voted in 2015.
Article by Adventist News Network
Day one of the 2025 General Conference (GC) Session in St. Louis, Missouri, has concluded with the approval of the originally proposed agenda.
Sam Neves, associate director of Communications for the GC, shared a summary of this afternoon’s key moments during the evening press conference:
277 names for the nominating committee have been voted and approved; they will begin meeting tomorrow, July 4, after morning worship.
Miembros de la Iglesia Adventista del Séptimo Día de todo el mundo se reunirán del 3 al 12 de julio en St. Louis para el 62.º Congreso de la General Conference.
Allí, los delegados se reunirán, tratarán asuntos de la iglesia, elegirán líderes y verán informes ministeriales de todo el mundo. El Columbia Union Visitor compartirá noticias actualizadas en inglés en su sitio web y redes sociales. (Watch in English, French, Portuguese, Russian, American Sign Language and more!) Para acceder a noticias y transmisiones en vivo en español.
Not all mission work involves building some-various ages and locations, at home and abroad. But the missionary mindset remains consistent. What is this mindset, and how can it transform one’s life?
Story by Tompaul Wheeler
What Drove Me
Tim Soper recently finished his 25th year of teaching. As chaplain at Chesapeake Conference’s Spencerville Adventist Academy (Md.), Soper says his two years as a missionary in Guam and a year during college as a task force worker shaped his career—and life.
Though Soper had previously gone on short-term mission trips as an academy student, his first foray into extended mission service was unplanned. After his freshman year at Southern