About Seventh-day Adventists

The Seventh-day Adventist Church is a mainstream Protestant church with approximately 19 million members worldwide, including more than one million members in North America. The Seventh-day Adventist Church seeks to enhance quality of life for people everywhere and to let people know that Jesus is coming again soon.

Adventists believe a Trinity of three persons—the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit—make up one God. They made salvation possible when Jesus, the Son, came to earth as a baby in Bethlehem and lived a sinless life in accordance with the Father’s will. When Jesus was crucified for the sins of the people of the world and arose from the dead on the third day, victory was won for everyone.

When He returned to heaven following the resurrection, Jesus left the Holy Spirit to serve as our Comforter and Counselor. He promised to return to earth a second time to complete His plan of salvation and take His people to heaven. Adventists are among the believers who look forward to that day.

Adventists believe that God is concerned with the quality of human life, and that everything—the way we live, eat, speak, think, treat each other, and care for the world around us—is part of His plan. Our families, our children, our jobs, our talents, our money, and our time are all important to Him.

Thai Seventh-Day Adventist Church –

Virtual Tour

It was with conviction I turned unto the California off ramp from the interstate 10 in Redlands California.

On the invitation of pastor Somchai Piromgraipakd, I was visiting their Thai Christian church. I was pretty positive that I knew what this was all about. Some little storefront church hidden away in a strip-mall somewhere, next to a seven-eleven and a Laundromat.

So it is easy to imaging my surprise when driving up Jew Jersey st, and the first sign of the church was a huge white sign announcing “Thai Christian Church”. My illusion was even more rocked when I turned into the parking lot and instead of a Laundromat, was facing a beautiful modern church, with all the trimmings

I was met by associate pastor Sunny Wilamart, who showed me around and told me about the church’s vision, for bringing the Christian message to the large number of Thai nationals, living in California and America today. In particular he feels a strong need to reach out a helping hand to the many undocumented immigrants, who often live and work under terrible conditions.

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Associate pastor Sunny Wilamart

“We have not always been able to do this” says pastor Somchai, as he explains the church’s history to me. The early roots was created already back in the early seventies, when pastor Somchai arrived in the United States, and God made it clear to him that he was to work for Him in the future. Soon there after a pastor at the church he was attending suggested that maybe it was a good idea to create a Thai Church in the future. This idea floated around in his head for years as things started to develop.

Pastor Somchai Piromgraipakd

In 1980 they finally was a group of people large enough to think of them selves as a church, and in 1986 they were officially recognized by the Seventh-Day Adventist Church Head Quarters as a official church. Today the congregation live in a beautiful new church which they started building in 1996 on a location they moved to in 1990.

Learn more about the 7th day Adventist church in California.

Virtual Tour of the Sanctuary

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