Who We Are, How We Serve

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.

Mission Values Priorities

We Believe

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.

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WGTS 91.9 Words of Hope: “Turn the Page”

Each month WGTS 91.9 staff share a short film that adds perspective to those very real moments everyone faces, reminding you there is hope through Jesus.
 
"Sometimes, it feels like what's on the next page is too much for me to bear," says WGTS host Stacey. 
 
For you it might be a change you weren't expecting; a marriage that is falling apart, a job you've lost, or that phone call that changes your entire life," says WGTS host Johnny.
 
Johnny and Stacey share the latest Words of Hope that God is the author of every chapter in your life, so don't be afraid to turn the page."

WGTS 91.9 Words of Hope | 014 - "Turn the Page" from WGTS 91.9 on Vimeo.

Union Returns $400,000 in Tithe to Conferences for Mission and Evangelism

Story by Visitor Staff

During today’s Columbia Union Conference Executive Committee meeting, members voted a tithe reversion of $400,000 to the conferences for mission and evangelism. The union executive officers presented each conference president or treasurer a check for $50,000.

Emmanuel Asiedu, Columbia Union Conference treasurer, says the funds come from a tithe increase in 2017 “due to the faithfulness of our constituent churches.” He adds that he hopes the funds will be “used to expand the kingdom of God through the mission and priorities of our conferences.”

 

Sé el cambio

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Historia de Terry Forde

Las puertas del elevador se estaban empezando a cerrar cuando entré al vestíbulo de un edificio de oficinas. Podía ver la cara del joven mensajero que estaba llevando un paquete mientras las puertas se cerraban; cuando alzó la mirada y me vio, instintivamente puso su pie entre las puertas y evitó que se cerraran.

Be The Change

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Editorial by Terry Forde
 
The elevator doors were already starting to close when I entered the lobby of an office building. I could see the face of a young man making a courier delivery through the closing doors, and when he glanced up and saw my face he distinctively stuck his foot out and stopped the doors from closing.
 
I scurried into the elevator and quickly said, “Thanks!”
 
“No problem, man,” he replied, and then he added, “Be the change you want to see in the world.”