Commission on Ministries, Services, and Structures

Introduction: Lowell C. Cooper

Annual Council Action of October 11, 2005, setting up the Commission including Terms of Reference and Membership (PDF)

Contact the Commission

Reports to Annual Council, Silver Spring, Maryland, October 15, 2007 (following the Third Meeting, October 10-11, 2007)

• Principles and Practices in Organizational Flexibility for Seventh-day Adventist Denominational Structure
• Union of Churches Recommendations to the Commission on Ministries, Services and Structures
  

Second Meeting Silver Spring, Maryland, October 5-6, 2006

• ANN News Story: Ministries, Structures Commission Continues Work, Council Told
• Flexibility Report (PDF)
• Union of Churches (PDF)

ANN News Story: World Church: Commission Begins Deliberations on Church Structures (May 2, 2006)

First Meeting, Loma Linda, California, April 11, 2006

• Rationale for the Appointment of the Commission: Jan Paulsen
• Organized for Mission: The Development of Seventh-day Adventist Organizational Structures: George R. Knight (PDF)
• Ecclesiology and Reorganization: The Oneness of the Church: Angel Manuel Rodriguez (PDF)
• Reasons for Considering Adjustments to Seventh-day Adventist Church Ministries and Structures: Lowell C. Cooper
• The Flow of Ministries: Vernon B. Parmenter (PDF)

ANN News Story: There Must be a Better Way of Doing Church, But 'Turkeys Don't Vote for Christmas' (October 11, 2005)