2012 budget reallocations free up funding for unreached region; Hope Channel now separate financial entity

Robert E. Lemon delivers the treasurer's report to Annual Council delegates at church headquarters this morning. The world church treasurer said next year's budget allocations respond to growing financial needs in some of the world's most unreached areas. [photo: Ansel Oliver]

Church leaders, members feel 'strain' of turbulent economy, but giving remains faithful

Szilvasi to continue as union secretary; Iseminger replaces Trecartin as undersecretary

Church officials appointed Homer Trecartin to serve as president of the church's Greater Middle East Union Mission. The union was formed yesterday when Annual Council delegates voted to transfer administrative oversight of the church in the Middle East to world church headquarters. [photo: Ansel Oliver]

Trecartin appointed president of new Greater Middle East Union Mission

Move follows action at 2010 Session to review ordination's biblical origins

Biblical Research Institute Director Artur Stele laid out the process that the world church will follow for studying the theology of ordination. World church leaders promised to bring a report on the issue to a church business meeting by 2015. [photo: Ansel Oliver]

Process, timetable unveiled for review of theology of ordination

Israel Field also transferred to direct headquarters oversight

Annual Council delegates vote to approve transferring the church's Middle East administrative oversight to the denomination's world headquarters. Leaders said the move signals that the region is a world priority. [photos: Ansel Oliver]

Church in Middle East now an attached field of world headquarters

VIDEO: Annual Council 2011 - Monday Devotional - Barry Black

Accuracy, transparency are key, says church statistician

David Trim, director of the Archives, Statistics and Research department, calls for the denomination to reassess its membership records. Church mortality rates have been found in some regions to be vastly lower than mortality rates of the general population in those local areas. [photo: Ansel Oliver]

Adventist Church membership audits planned, revised figures contemplated

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