We believe it was a mistake for the South Pacific Division of Seventh-day Adventists to recommend keeping Sunday as Sabbath, and it was a mistake for the Samoa-Tokelau Mission of Seventh-day Adventists to implement that recommendation.1 The Sabbath has always been and could only be the day between Friday and Sunday anywhere in the world. … [Click to read more …]
(Source: eventpolynesia.com) As Samoa prepared to mark the change of Samoa’s position in relation to the International Dateline, where on the stroke of midnight Thursday night, the date shifted from Thursday 29th of December 2011 to Saturday 31st of December 2011; it also marked the division in conviction of Seventh Day Adventists in Samoa. Those … [Click to read more …]
(Source: eventpolynesia.com) Samoa’s shift to the west to align with days in New Zealand and Australia also saw a change in the sequence of days of the week according to the new calendar being adopted by the Seventh-day Adventist church in Samoa, with Monday becoming the first day of the week to Sunday starting in … [Click to read more …]
