Over 1 million join Adventist Church in fifth consecutive year

The Adventist world church membership now totals 15,780,719.

Eighty-nine percent of new Adventists belong to these six world regions: South America, Inter-America, East-Central Africa, South Africa-Indian Ocean, Southern Asia, Southern-Asia Pacific.

For the fifth consecutive year, more than 1 million people have joined the Seventh-day Adventist Church worldwide, according to this year's church statistical report.

Church leaders said for the year ending June 30, on average about 2,800 people joined the church each day, bringing the world membership total to 15,780,719.

There is now 1 Adventist for every 425 people on the planet. In 1980, the ratio was 1 to 1,268.

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