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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Title Page
Approval Page
Certification Page
Dedication
Acknowledgement
Abstract
List of Abbreviation
List of Figures:
List of Tables:
Table of Contents
Chapter One: Introduction
1.1 Background of
the study
1.2 Statement of
the problem
1.3 Purpose of the
study
1.4 Significance
of the study
1.5 Scope of the
study
1.6 Research
Methodology
1.7 Limitations
1.8 Definition of
Terms
Chapter Two: Review of Related Literature
Chapter Three: A History of Seventh-day Adventist
in Nigeria
3.1 The beginning
of Seventh-day Adventist Missionary work in Nigeria 1913-1945
3.1.1 Seventh-day
Adventist Church Missionary Work in Yorubaland
3.1.2 Seventh-day
Adventist Church Missionary Work in Northern Nigeria
3.1.3 Missionary work
of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Igboland: 1923-1933
3.2 The
Seventh-day Adventist Church: 1934-1944
3.2.1. A Period of
Accelerated Primary and Post-primary Educational Expansion 1945-1955
3.2.2 Indigenous
Leadership/challenges in Seventh-day Adventist Church in Igboland 1956-1966
3.2.3 The Church
within the Civil War Era: 1967-1977
3.2.4 Adventist
Health Care System: 1978-1988
3.2.5 Evangelism,
Church Growth, and Education: 1989-1999
3.2.6 Conference
Organization/ Reorganization Data 1923-2010
3.2.7 Seventh-day
Adventist Encounter with Culture
3.3 Influence of
Pentecostalism in Seventh-day Adventist Church
3.3.1 Seventh-day
Adventist Church and Sabbath Churches
3.3.2 Seventh-day
Adventist Church - A Cult?
3.4 Summary of the
Literature Review
Chapter Four: Cultural and Religious Theatres
4.1 Igbo Cultural
Context
4.2 Geographical
Location of Igboland
4.3 American
Religious Context
4.4 Seventh-day
Adventist Global Church
4.4.1 Early
Experiences that Marked the Beginning of Seventh-day Adventist Church
4.4.2 Organization
and Authority 1860-1880
4.4.3 The Development
of Seventh-day Adventist Theology of Mission
4.4.4 Structure of
Seventh-day Adventist as an International Organization
4.4.5 Seventh-day
Adventist Church Mission Statement
4.4.6 Seventh-day
Adventist Church Doctrinal Beliefs
4.4.7 How to Adapt Seventh-day
Adventist Beliefs to Culture
4.5 Global
Evangelistic Programs and themes
4.5.1 Seventh-day
Adventist Church World Statistical Evangelism Impact
4.5.2 Seventh-day
Adventist Church World Membership Statistical Record as at Organization
4.6 Ellen Gould
White (Harmon) and the History and Mission of Seventh-day Adventist Church
4.7 Membership
into Seventh-day Adventist Church
Chapter Five
5.1 Missionary
Work of Seventh-day Adventist Church Work in Igboland 1923-2010
5.1.2 Evangelistic
Activities
5.2 Seventh-day
Adventist Institutions in Igboland
5.3 Indigenous
Leadership and Reorganizations in Seventh-day Adventist Church
5.3.1 Creation of
Eastern Nigeria Union Mission
5.3.2 Membership
Growth of Seventh-day Adventist Church in Igboland 1981-2010
5.4 Purpose and
Functions of Seventh-day Adventist Church in Igboland
5.4.1 Methods of
Gospel Propagation by Seventh-day Adventists in Igboland
5.4.2 Inhibiting
Factors to the Growth of Seventh-day Adventist Church in Igboland
5.5 Effect of the
Nigeria Civil War on Seventh-day Adventist Church – 1967-1977
5.6 Pentecostal
influence on Seventh-day Adventist Church in Igboland
5.7.1 Pentecostal
Threat to Adventism
5.8 Interactions
between Seventh-day Adventists and other Christian Missions
5.8.1 Cultism and Seventh-day
Adventist Church in Igboland
5.9 Future Growth
of Seventh-day Adventist Church
Chapter Six: Seventh-day Adventist Church in
Contemporary Nigeria
6.1 The Impact of
Seventh-day Adventist Church in Igboland
6.2 Women in
Seventh-day Adventist Church
6.2.1 Departmental
staffing
6.3 Children’s
Ministries
6.4 Role of Youth
in the Seventh-day Adventist Church
Chapter Seven: Summary and Conclusion
7.1 Summary
7.2 Recommendation
7.3 Suggestions
for further study
7.4 Conclusion
References
Abstract
The Seventh-day Adventist church is a denomination that grew
out of the Millerite Movement in the United States during the middle of the 19th
Century. By 1861, the group and those who were with them adopted the name
Seventh-day Adventist Church. In 1874 they sent their first overseas missionary
to Europe by name John N. Andrews. He was sent to Switzerland. The Adventist
message came to Nigeria in 1914 through David C. Babcock who began the work in
Erunmu near Ibadan in Oyo State. Pastor Jesse Clifford came to Eastern Nigeria
in 1923 to begin the Adventist work in Umuola, Ogbor Hill area of Aba. Today,
several places in Igboland have the presence of Seventh-day Adventist Church.
The methodology used in this work is the phenomenological method. It sees a
thing as it presents itself. It does not judge or interpret things biassely and
does not allow the subjective impression the object makes on him or her. Data
were collected from text books, journals, private diaries, local church
records, camp meeting reports, seminars, individual and public libraries,
interviews, and internet sources. The findings in this work include: sometimes
in the Adventist Church, due to the way Adventist youth have embraced
Pentecostalism, worship has become so central that the doctrines of the church
has become un-important, seen as being a divisive irritant. The church has
interacted well with Christians of other missions since its inception in the
areas of getting people Christianized, fighting against hostile rituals,
planning for social, economical, political, and educational welfare of their
villages and fighting against evil. The finding further reveals that the church,
even though a conservative body has the problem of adapting her message to
culture and finding an effective way to communicate the truth of each belief
for each content. However, the church needs to galvanize all available methods
including science and technology in presenting to the world relevant and
biblically correct answers to life’s uncertain questions. The work concludes
that the Seventh-day Adventist Church, like the Roman Catholic, the Anglican
and others made a lot of impact in Igboland in her attempt to evangelize the
area. The facilities (education, hospital, welfare services, and more) which
the missionaries introduced in Igboland became irresistible forces that
undermined the traditional religion. Christianity, which the Seventh-day
Adventists share with other Christians, became a useful instrument of agent to
change Igboland to a happier and better society.
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1
Background of the Study:
The
history of the Christian church, as the body of Christ, could be traceable from
the
first
century Apostles to the time it was inaugurated by the Holy Spirit on the
Pentecost day.
Cairns
(1981) states that, Christian history originates with Jesus Christ of Nazareth,
the God
made
man (John 1:1-3, 14). He is recognized as the founder of the church for which
no other
foundation can be laid. (Mathew
18:13-16). Following this fact, the church is said to be built
upon
Him as the immovable Rock. Concerning its expansion, the great commission, as
recorded
in
Mathew 28:18-20 states that:
All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.
Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of
the father and of the son and of the Holy Spirit and teaching them to obey
everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very
end of the age (N.I.V).
Jesus trained his apostles who also
studied him in whatever He did and commissioned
them
to train others so as to continue his message in the world.
1.2
Statement of the Problem:
The
very heart of Christianity and the theme of primary importance to the
Seventh-day
Adventist movement as shared by other churches is to “go
into the entire world and to preach the gospel to every creature” (Mark 16:15).
In view of this assignment the first Seventh-day Adventist missionary from
Michigan, Pastor Jesse Clifford, was sent to Igboland. He first came as a
worker in the then Nigeria Union Mission of Seventh-day Adventist church, which
had its headquarters in Ibadan and landed in Aba in 1923. He was connected to
some Seventh-day Adventist Church believers from Sierra Leone who lived in Aba.
From day to day Pastor......
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