[APD] First Adventist Business Meeting in North Korea since more than 50 years

[Christian B. Schäffler]

[APD] First Adventist Business Meeting in North Korea since more than 50
years

 

June 20, 2008

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First Adventist Business Meeting in North Korea since more than 50 years

 

Kumgangsan/North Korea. [ANN/APD]   Seventh-day Adventist Church leaders in
Northern Asia held their mid-year Executive Committee meeting in the
Democratic People's Republic of North Korea last month, the first such
meeting there since the country closed its borders in 1953.

 

Meeting for one day in the city of Kumgangsan, church officers established
Chinese theology education and examined implementation of the world church's
<http://news.adventist.org/data/2007/1192473066/index.html.en> extraordinary
tithe for this region of the world.

 

"We have no organized work in North Korea, so to have an official meeting is
an historic occasion," said Glenn Mitchell, a spokesman for the Adventist
Church in Northern Asia.

 

Delegates also visited the North Korea Agricultural Project, a farm run by
Adventist Pastor Kim Suk Man of the Yang Yang Jaeil Adventist Church in
South Korea. For nine years, he has managed the farm in cooperation with the
North Korean government and Hyundai Corporation, instructing farmers how to
produce vegetables for those in need in North Korea.

 

More than 1.5 billion people live within the church's Northern Asia-Pacific
Division, making it the most populous of the church's 13 world divisions.
[With news input from Adventist News Network/ANN]

 

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