Who We Are

 

The Euro-Asia Division of the Seventh-day Adventist Church is the largest Adventist division territory in the world. Our region stretches across 11 time zones and 12 countries from Eastern Europe to the Pacific Ocean.

 

Our territory includes all former Soviet nations except the three Baltic nations. Current Adventist membership is more than 140,000. By church membership, we remain one of the smallest divisions in the Adventist world church, but we have grown significantly since 1990 when our membership was about 36,000.

 

The fall of Communism brought new personal and religious freedoms to our region, but it also brought political chaos, militant nationalism, growing materialism, and economic hardship. The challenge for Adventists in this uncertain environment: to offer our neighbors hope for both today and the future.

 

Today the Euro-Asia Division is divided into seven major administrative regions:

• West Russian Union Conference (most parts of Russia west of the Ural Mountains)
• East Russian Union Mission (Russia east of Ural Mountains)
• Ukrainian Union Conference
• Moldova Union Conference
• Southern Union Conference (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan)
• Belarus Conference
• Caucasus Union Mission (mountainous region of southern Russia, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan)

To find out what Adventists believe and to learn about our members around the world, see our official church website:

www.adventist.org