Who We Are, How We Serve

The Columbia Union Conference coordinates the Seventh-day Adventist Church’s work in the Mid-Atlantic United States, where 150,000 members worship in 860 congregations. We provide administrative support to eight conferences; two healthcare networks; 81 early childhood, elementary and secondary schools; a liberal arts university; a health sciences college; a 49 community services centers; 8 camps; 5 book and health food stores and a radio station.

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We Believe

God is love, power, and splendor—and God is a mystery. His ways are far beyond us, but He still reaches out to us. God is infinite yet intimate, three yet one,
all-knowing yet all-forgiving.

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Story by Tina Sheesley

The deliveries were extra special at Adventist HealthCare Shady Grove Medical Center on Feb. 29, as our Birth Center team helped local moms welcome leap year babies. On leap day 2020, Shady Grove doctors and nurses delivered 7 babies whose next birthdays won’t be on the calendar for four more years.

Kettering Adventist HealthCare (KAHC), con sede en Dayton, Ohio, realizó recientemente varios cambios clave de liderazgo: Brenda Kuhn, directora de calidad, ahora se desempeña como vicepresidenta ejecutiva y directora clínica. Jennifer Shull ha sido ascendida a vicepresidenta principal y directora de enfermería. Paul Hoover, MBA, ha sido ascendido a vicepresidente principal y director de estrategia de Kettering Adventist HealthCare.