SDA Church Directory — Corporate Franchises

What Every Visitor Must Know Before Attending an SDA Church

The General Conference Corporation of Seventh-day Adventists (EIN 52-0643036) operates under IRS Group Exemption Number GEN 1071 — meaning every local SDA church's tax exemption flows from this single parent corporation. Each local church is not an independent religious body; it is a corporate franchise subject to GC working policy, Conference licensing, and federal 501(c)(3) speech restrictions.

The IRS lists the parent GC corporation's primary business activity as underwriting municipal insurance — not gospel ministry. The GC files its NTEE classification as X21 (Protestant) while GC President Neal C. Wilson stated in the Adventist Review (March 5, 1981): "I want to say this carefully — there is something very Catholic about the Seventh-day Adventist Church." In 1974, Wilson called the pioneer church a "trash heap" (trial transcript, Merikay McLeod case). The local church sitting on this page is a subsidiary of that corporate structure. See full corporate empire →

Revelation 18:4: "Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues." — This is not a suggestion. It is a commandment.