To support the mission of the Church with ethical practical research.
To assist the Adventist Church in analyzing, evaluating, and enhancing the mission-effectiveness of its agencies, programs, and ministries.
Provide an informed basis for the Church’s global strategic planning.
Enhance pastoral ministry to church members.
Assist denominational entities and denominationally funded programs in achieving their strategic objectives.
Improve the effectiveness of mission to people outside the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
Provide a scientific understanding of current trends, facts, and growth potential to Church leaders.
Publish Adventist research findings and reports to support the Church at large.
Collaborate with Adventist researchers and institutions globally for effective and efficient Adventist research production and dissemination.
Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path (Psalm 119:105 NKJV). As Seventh-day Adventists, we recognize the emphasis that Scripture places on prayer and the study of God’s Word—the lamp to our feet and light on our paths. In exploring institutional employees’ practices of personal spirituality, the researchers sought … Continued
So then, just as you have received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to walk in him, being rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, and overflowing with gratitude (Colossians 2:6–7 CSB). The practices of denominational employees’ personal spirituality were addressed in the 2023 Institutional Church Workers’ … Continued
Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship (Romans 12:1, NIV). One of the goals of the 2023 Institutional Workers’ Survey was to find out was about Adventist Church employees’ practices of … Continued
So Christ himself gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the pastors and teachers, to equip his people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ. Ephesians 4:11–13 NIV … Continued
So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone, in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord. … Continued
God is not unjust; he will not forget your work and the love you have shown him as you have helped his people and continue to help them (Hebrews 6:10 NIV). In its efforts to understand the experiences and opinions of employees at Church institutions, the Institutional Workers’ Survey 2023 asked workers how much they … Continued