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The Seventh Day Adventist Church is a Christian denomination in Ghana.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.dacb.org/stories/ghana/bediako_matthew.html )〕 The church is under the West-Central Africa Division of Seventh-day Adventists whose headquarters in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire. What is now the Ghana Union Conference (GUC) was organized in 2000 to serve as the national executive body of the Adventist Church in Ghana. It is made up of seven administrative units, six conferences and a mission, which oversee church affairs in all ten regions of the country. These units are: Central Ghana Conference, (1933) and South Central Ghana Conference (1999) for the Ashanti, parts of Western and Brong Ahafo regions; Mid-west Ghana Conference (1986) covers 99% of Brong Ahafo, and portions of Northern region; and South Ghana Conference (1987) which covers Greater Accra, Volta and Central Regions. The rest are South West Ghana Conference (1998) covering the Western region; East Ghana Conference (1999) for the Eastern region while the North Ghana Mission (1968) covers the Northern, Upper East and Upper West Regions. The Ghana Union Conference has in total 1,166 churches, 1660 companies and a baptized membership of 368,171 (the highest in the West-Central African Division of the Seventh-day Adventist Church). Within the GUC field, there are 916 schools providing basic to tertiary level education. These include 898 basic schools, 14 senior high schools, three colleges of (Nursing & Education), and a university. There are 13 hospitals and 12 clinics in the Ghana Union. The Union Conference is administered by Officers and Departmental Directors and an Executive Committee elected at Session for a 5year term. The Executive Committee, the highest decision making body of the church is made up of elected officers, directors, laypersons and professionals. Current Executive officers of the Union are: President: Pastor (Dr.) Samuel Adama Larmie Executive Secretary: Pastor (Dr.) Kwame Boakye Kwanin Treasurer: Elder Isaac Owusu Amponsem Historical Dateline of Adventism in Ghana •In 1888, the first Advent message in the form of a pamphlet reached one Francis I. U. Dolphijn of Apam, a coastal town in Fantiland in the central regions of the then Gold Coast, now Ghana. One William Kweku Attah Dawson of Fetteh and Mayenda, also in Fantiland, is said to have either preceded Dolphijn as the first Adventist, or even the one who introduced Adventism to Dolphijn. •Feb. 22, 1894: The first SDA missionaries, Edward L. Sanford and Karl G. Rudolph, arrived at Apam. Within five months frequent attacks of malaria forced Sanford's departure; but Rudolf continued and moved the Cape Coast. •On Oct. 3, 1895, Cape Coast became the official headquarters of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in West Africa as a team, headed by Dudley Upton Hale of Texas who led a group of missionaries to Cape Coast the same year. Dudley U. Hale (the new mission superintendent) arrived with George and Eva Kerr (both nurses), and G. P. Riggs (a colporteur). They met Rudolph, who had previously moved there from Apam. On June 3, 1897, Hale left for home. •Before the close of the 19th century, a team of Adventist missionaries arrived at Apam, Ghana from the General Conference to begin what is now known as the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Ghana. They were Karl G. Rudolph and Edward Leroy Sanford. Sanford returned to America due to ill-health. •On Mar. 27, 1897, in the first Seventh-day Adventist baptism in West Africa, Hale baptized Francis I. U. Dolphijn, Fred and Isaac Dolphijn, and George Peter Grant. G. P. Grant was joined by Dawson and Dolphijn to spread Adventism along the coastal towns of Ghana •In March 1903 Hale returned to Ghana with his family and Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Hyatt. •In August 1905, the headquarters of the work in West Africa moved from Cape Coast, Ghana, to Freetown, Sierra Leone with the arrival of David C. Babcock and his family. •February 1907 was the beginning of Adventist education as it was the year in which Christian Ackah (Snr) of Kikam, who had identified himself with Adventism in 1903 established the first school based on Adventist principles in Cape Coast. • 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Seventh Day Adventist Church (Ghana)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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