Basic Information

The Seventh-Day Adventist Church grew out of the work of William Miller who predicted the Second Coming of Christ in 1843/44. After the failure of the prophecy many attracted to his message reorganized. Some who continued as Adventists and also accepted sabbath worship, found new leadership in the persons of Ellen G. White and James White.

Snapshot

	1990	2000	Growth/Decline
Congregations	4,214	4,507	+293 (7.0%)
Adherents	903,062	923,046	+19,984 (2.2%)

Notes

Snapshot data are from Churches and Church Membership in the United States 1990 and Religious Congregations and Membership in the United States 2000. Copyright © 2002, Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB). All rights reserved. Published by Glenmary Research Center, 1312 Fifth Ave., North, Nashville, TN 37208. www.glenmary.org/grc.

History data were taken from the National Council of Churches' Historic Archive CD and recent editions of the Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches [More information on history data sources]