LIVE: Day 4 Updates from GC Session 2025 in St. Louis
Hi, I’m Björn Karlman, AT exec director, and I’ll be providing live updates for day four of the 62nd General Conference (GC) Session. Thanks for joining us! MOST RECENT UPDATES APPEAR FIRST: [5:20 PM CDT] Delegates approved Nominating Committee Report #5 by a wide margin, confirming J Raymond Wahlen II as undertreasurer and naming the […]
EN DIRECTO: Sesión AG 2025 – Resumen de la primera jornada en St. Louis
Bienvenidos a las actualizaciones en vivo de Adventist Today desde la 62ª Sesión de la Asociación General en St. Louis, Missouri, a medida que se desarrolla este evento histórico. El trabajo termina con una oración. Todos tienen hambre. [5:31 PM CDT] – Una lista de 277 nombres de la Comisión de Nombramientos aparece rápidamente en […]
Sesión 2025 de la AG en St Louis: Día ½ | Informe de 3 de julio de 2025
Esta es la primera sesión de la Asociación General (AG) a la que asisto. Siempre pensé que algunas congresos, en algún momento, me enviarían como delegado. Pensaba que habría ascendido en el escalafón, como hicieron muchos de mis amigos, para ser un hombre de congreso o de unión o de división, y pasearme por aquí […]
Erton C. Köhler elegido Presidente de la Asociación General
El 4 de julio de 2025, Erton C. Köhler fue elegido presidente de la Asociación General de la Iglesia Adventista mundial del Séptimo Día. Köhler deja el cargo de secretario ejecutivo de la Asociación General. Köhler, oriundo del sur de Brasil, fue asesor de la Oficina de Misión Adventista, de la Oficina de Archivos, Estadísticas […]
Changing of the Guard: Köhler Follows Wilson’s Farewell With a Call for Boldness
by Björn Karlman | 4 July 2025 | Yesterday, Pastor Erton Köhler was named the new General Conference (GC) president. In his initial remarks, Köhler thanked and praised outgoing president Ted Wilson, who was not present. “Pastor Wilson is not here now. Later he will come,” Köhler said. At yesterday evening’s press conference, a delay […]
Köhler’s First Press Conference: A Shift in Style, Not Substance
Pastor Erton C. Köhler’s first press conference as General Conference (GC) president was a clear break from the Ted Wilson era. The event (when Köhler finally arrived after fending off well-wishers and others on the way to the press area) was brisk, multilingual (he spoke in fluent English, Spanish, and Portuguese), and—most notably—open. Köhler took […]
Editorial: “The Fox Preaching to the Geese”
The image of a fox preaching to a flock of geese recurs throughout medieval history: in paintings, on pottery, in book illustrations, and sometimes even in carvings in churches. Generally the fox is dressed in a priest’s vestments or a monk’s habit. The sly fox is lulling the geese into a false sense of security […]
SATIRE: GC Announces Portuguese as Official Language of Heaven, Effective Immediately
SILVER SPRING, Maryland — In a development that has left translators scrambling and English Sabbath School teachers nervously clutching their lesson quarterlies, the General Conference (GC) announced today that Portuguese will now be recognized as the official language of heaven. The announcement came just hours after the election of Erton Köhler, the first Brazilian to […]
St. Louis GC Session 2025, Day 2: Treasurer’s Report & Nominating Committee
by Loren Seibold | 4 July 2025 | This afternoon kicked off with the report from General Conference (GC) treasurer Paul Douglas. Short version: the church is making good money. Slightly longer version, courtesy of Bjorn: World tithe is up about 16% over the last five years. World tithe is over $3 billion annually. Douglas […]