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NORTHERN ASIA-PACIFIC DIVISION (NSD)

Organized 1919 as Far Eastern Division
Renamed Asia-Pacific Division 1995
Territory divided and renamed 1997

Territory: Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Japan, Mongolia, People's Republic of China including Hong Kong and Macao Special Administrative Regions, Republic of Korea, and Taiwan; comprising the Japan and Korean Union Conferences, the Chinese Union Mission, and the Mongolia Mission Field.

Statistics: Churches, 1,760; membership, 549,228; population, 1,535,407,000 (online statistics).

Telecommunications:

Telephone: 82 (31) 910-1500.

Fax: 82 (31) 919-4412.

E-mail: [email protected] (Presidential); [email protected] (Secretariat).

Website: www.nsdadventist.org.

Addresses:

Street: Sam Hee Plaza (5th Floor); 66 Chuyop-dong, Ilsan-gu; Koyang City, Kyonggi-do 411-370; Republic of Korea.

Mailing: P.O. Box 43; Koyang Ilsan 411-600; Republic of Korea.

Administration:

President, Jairyong Lee.

Secretary, Akeri Suzuki.

Treasurer, Donald W. Upson; Associate, Guimo Sung; Assistant, Dong Jin Lyu.

Assistant to the President, Stanley Wai Chun Ng.

Executive Committee:

Jairyong Lee, Chairman; Akeri Suzuki, Secretary; Jae-Soon Ahn, Naoki Arai, Choonho Cho, Barbara Choi, Chong Geol Choi, Pyung Duk Chun, Emiko Higa, Li-Chen Hsueh, Myung Kwan Hong, Masuo Ikemasu, Daniel Jiao, Dae Sung Kim, Jung Tae Kim, Yo Han Kim, Ronald Kuhn, JohngHaeng Kwon, Moo Nam Kwon, Sally Lam-Phoon, Miguel Luna, Dong Jin Lyu, Julian Melgosa, Glenn Mitchell, Stanley Wai Chun Ng, Moon-Bok Park, Chek Yat Phoon, Cyrus Shin, Joshua Dong Hee Shin, Takashi Shiraishi, Guimo Sung, Dale Tunnell, Donald W. Upson, James Sze Fai Wu, Rachel Yeung, Hiroyuki Yoshida.

Departments:

Adventist Chaplaincy Ministries, Ministerial Association, and Stewardship, Miguel Luna; Shepherdess International, Sally Lam-Phoon.

Children's Ministries, Family Ministries, and Women's Ministries, Sally Lam-Phoon.

Communication, and Public Affairs and Religious Liberty, Glenn Mitchell.

Education, Chek Yat Phoon.

Health Ministries, Barbara Choi.

Publishing Ministries, and Sabbath School and Personal Ministries, Dae Sung Kim.

Trust Services, Guimo Sung.

Youth Ministries, Joshua Dong Hee Shin.

Agency:

ADRA Asia Regional Office (Tri-division serving the Northern Asia-Pacific, Southern Asia, and Southern Asia-Pacific Divisions). Le Chateau Mansion, No. 801; 55 Soi Ekamai, 12 Charoenchai Sukhumvit 63 Road; Wattana, Bangkok 10110; Thailand. Telephone: 66 (2) 391-4768, 381-7130. Fax: 66 (2) 381-7128. E-mail: show. Regional Vice President, Ronald Kuhn (E-mail: show).

Ministries and Services:

Adventist Mission, Global Evangelism, and Pioneer Missionaries, JohngHaeng Kwon.

Adventist Volunteer Service, Akeri Suzuki.

Adventist Television Network, Adventist World Radio, and Hope Channel for Asia, Glenn Mitchell.

AMiCUS, Music Ministries, and 1000 Missionary Movement, Joshua Dong Hee Shin.

ASI, Mission Awareness, and Voice of Prophecy, Dae Sung Kim.

International Health Food Association, Donald W. Upson.

Language Schools, and NSD Geoscience Research Institute, Chek Yat Phoon.

Spirit of Prophecy, Miguel Luna.
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