To support the mission of the Church with ethical practical research.
To assist the Adventist Church in analyzing, evaluating, and enhancing the mission-effectiveness of its agencies, programs, and ministries.
Provide an informed basis for the Church’s global strategic planning.
Enhance pastoral ministry to church members.
Assist denominational entities and denominationally funded programs in achieving their strategic objectives.
Improve the effectiveness of mission to people outside the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
Provide a scientific understanding of current trends, facts, and growth potential to Church leaders.
Publish Adventist research findings and reports to support the Church at large.
Collaborate with Adventist researchers and institutions globally for effective and efficient Adventist research production and dissemination.
He must hold firmly to the trustworthy message as it has been taught, so that he can encourage others by sound doctrine and refute those who oppose it (Titus 1:9 NIV). As Paul’s letter to Titus reminds us, belief and trust in God’s message is essential to the Christian experience in order to enc...
Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect (1 Peter 3:15 NIV). As Seventh-day Adventists, we often quote the many Scriptures urging us to share Christ’s message of salvation with the entire ...
Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path (Psalm 119:105 NKJV). As Seventh-day Adventists, we recognize the emphasis that Scripture places on prayer and the study of God’s Word—the lamp to our feet and light on our paths. In exploring institutional employees’ practices of personal spirituality, the researchers sought … Continued
So then, just as you have received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to walk in him, being rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, and overflowing with gratitude (Colossians 2:6–7 CSB). The practices of denominational employees’ personal spirituality were addressed in the 2023 Institutional Church Workers’ … Continued
Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship (Romans 12:1, NIV). One of the goals of the 2023 Institutional Workers’ Survey was to find out was about Adventist Church employees’ practices of … Continued
So Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers, to equip his people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ. Ephesians 4:11–13 NIV … Continued