History

               In only one and a half century the Church  Adventista of the Seventh Day has been growing of a number people'simited  , that diligently studied the Bible in search of the truth, for a world igreja  with more than eight million members and, other million, that consider the Church your Adventist second it marries in terra.Doutrinariamente, the Adventist of the 7º  Day are heirs of the movement Milleriano 1840. Although the name " Adventist of the Seventh Day " has been chosen in 1860, the denomination was not officially organized until May 21, 1863, when the movement included about 125 Churches and 3.500 members. Between 1831 and 1844, Guilherme  Miller - a preacher Batista and former-captain of army of the war of 1812 - it threw the " great awakening of the second coming " which eventually dispersed through most of the Christian world. Based on your study of Daniel's 8:14 prophecy, Miller calculated that Jesus could come back the earth in the autumn of 1844. When Jesus didn't appear and the followers of Miller of the time, tried what he/she came calling " her THE great Disappointment ". most of the thousands that you/they had joined if to the movement, he left in deep disillusion. Some few ones however, they went back to your Bible for they discover because they had been disappointed. Therefore they concluded that the date of October 22 had state actually correct, but that Miller had predicted the wrong event for that day. They were convinced that the biblical prophecy foresaw him/it I don't come back from Jesus to the Earth in 1844, but that He would begin in that date a special ministry in the sky for Your followers. Like this, they continued to wait for Jesus' abbreviation return, as they still make today the Adventist of the Seventh Day. Of this small group that refused to give up after the " great disappointment " several leaders that built the base appeared of the one that would come be to the Church Adventista of the Seventh Day. They stand out among these leaders a youth couple - Tiago and Ellen White - and a captain of retired ship, José Beats. This small nucleus of " Adventist " began to grow - mainly in the states of New England in North America, the one where the movement of Miller had begun. Ellen White, just an adolescent at that time of the " great disappointment ", he/she grew in an endowed writer, speaker and administrator, becoming, and staying, the spiritual counselor of trust of the family Adventist for more than 70 years to your death in 1915. The first Adventist came to believe - as they ever since have the Adventist - that she enjoyed of the special direction of God while she wrote your advices for the crescent group of believers. In 1860, in Battle Creek, Michigan, USA, a handful of congregations of Adventist chose the name Adventist of the Seventh Day and in 1863 they organized the body of the Church formally with a number of 3.500 members. At the beginning, the performance was largely limited North America, up to 1874 when the first missionary of the Church, J.N. Andrews, was a correspondent for Switzerland. The work in Africa was begun timidly in 1879 when Dr. H.P. Ribton, a recent one talks in Italy, he/she moved to Egypt and he/she opened a school, but the project finished when tumults began to appear in the neighborhoods. The first country Christian no-Protestant to receive the Church was Russia, the one where a minister Adventista was sent in 1886. On October 20, 1890, the schooner Pitcairn was thrown in San Francisco and soon designated to take missionaries for the islands of  Pacific. Missionaries Adventistas of the Seventh Day entered for the first time in no-Christian countries in 1894 - Gilded Costa (Ghana), west of Africa, and Matalbeleland, South Africa. In the same year missionaries came South America, and in 1896 there were representatives in Japan. The Church today has established performance in 209 countries. The publication and distribution of literatures were the principal factors in the growth of the movement of the Coming. Advent Review and Sabbath Herald (today Adventist Review), general organ of communication of the Church, they were thrown in Paris, Maine, in 1850; Youth's Instructor in Rochester, New York, in 1852; and Signs of the Times in Oakland, California, in 1874. The first house publisher denominacional in Battle Creek, Michigan, began to operate in 1855 and it was properly incorporate in 1861 with the name of Association of  Publication Adventista of the Seventh Day. The Institute of Reform of the Health, known later as Sanatório Battle Creek, he/she opened your doors in 1866, and the work of the missionary society was established at state level in 1872, and 1877 he/she saw the formation of schools Sabatinas's Associations in whole the State. In 1903, the headquarters of the denomination moved of Battle Creek, Michigan, for Washington, A.D., and in 1989 for Silver Spring, Maryland, the one where she continues to always form the central nerve of the work in expansion.
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