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Academics, theologians, religious freedom experts, students, and church members gathered on the campus of Southern Adventist University on October 20-21, 2023, for a North American Division conference “Reconstructing Religious Liberty in a Time of Religious and Secular Extremes.” The two-day event, organized by the NAD Public Affairs and Religious Liberty ministry team, featured five keynote speakers: David French, Samuel Perry, Tobias Cremer, Leslie Pollard, and Ivor Myers.

On October 29, day four of the North American Division’s 2023 Year-End Meeting, NAD executive secretary Kyoshin Ahn and team delivered an eye-opening secretary’s report. Their presentations defined the state of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in North America, emphasized secretariat ministries’ disciple-making efforts, and inspired hope for the church’s future.

The North American Division of the Seventh-day Adventist Church acknowledges communication is more than a method — a sacred connection process designed to redirect our attention to Christ. This ethos was upheld at the 2023 Society of Adventist Communicators convention in Springfield, Massachusetts, where 248 people attended the three-day event in October, gathering to fulfill the convention’s annual theme “Purpose. Passion. Partnership.” 

On the final day of the 2023 North American Division Year-End Meeting, Bettina Krause, associate director of Public Affairs and Religious Liberty and editor of Liberty magazine, presented the NAD’s proposed statement regarding the Doctrine of Discovery.

The breadth and diversity of the North American Division (NAD) ministries and institutions was on full display Monday, Oct. 29, as Seventh-day Adventist church leaders gathered for the fifth day of the 2023 NAD Year-End Meeting. Because these meetings are also publicly live-streamed, this was a chance for not just church leaders, but church members at home to see their tithe dollars at work.

The Oakwood Adventist Academy Mustangs boys varsity basketball team, after being denied a Sabbath accommodation in the finals for the 2021-2022 state championships, forfeited their semi-final game. Fast forward to the 2022-2023 season and the team is back in the tournament and able to play. Watch what happens at the March 2023 finals; and what lessons the team learned.

“God has people out there waiting for someone to knock at their door, and that someone is us,” said G. Alexander Bryant, president of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in North America on Sunday, Oct. 29, as the fourth day of business sessions of the 2023 NAD Year-End Meeting focused on evangelism, church membership, and care.

On Oct. 27, 2023, all nine unions and the Guam-Micronesia Mission of the North American Division shared at vespers as part of the division’s year-end meeting. Each talked about how the Lord is moving in their territories. 

Welcome to the video stream and news coverage from the 2023 North American Division Year-End Meeting! Once the NAD Year-End Meeting begins on Oct. 26, 2023, you can watch below — and check out links to written news coverage and YEM reports as they become available.

From the outset of the 2023 North American Division Year-End Meeting (NADYEM) on Thursday, October 26, it was clear it would not be business as usual. At times, the meeting was a reunion where friends could laugh while discussing agenda items. Other times, it was a sober call to harness our spiritual resources to minister in today’s volatile context; a message reinforced by special guest Rear Admiral (Ret.) Barry Black, United States Senate chaplain.