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About ASI Jakarta Conference

Assisting lay persons to share the gospel everywhere

ASI was born out of a need to assist the Seventh-day Adventist Church with a way to relate to an expanding lay ministry movement who sensed a call to unite with the Church to spread the everlasting gospel to the whole world. There were about fifty schools, hospitals and sanitariums, restaurants, treatment rooms, farms, and a variety of shops, all geared to harvest souls, not profit. For seventy-five years ASI has continued to expand its’ mission of assisting Adventist lay persons to realize their dream of sharing the gospel everywhere by all means. ASIs’ current scope of enabling Adventist laity to personally find a way to spread the gospel would encourage the pioneers. ASIs’ relevance now, is More Than Before. We’ll show why in responding to four existential questions: 1) Why are we Here? 2) Where did we come from? 3) Where are we Going? 4) How should we Live?

Why Are We Here?

Rooted in Madison, growing since 1947

ASI was founded in 1947 as a department of the General Conference.

It started as a self-supporting ministries developed in the south of the United States from the work of Madison College beginning in 1904 under the leadership team of Drs. E.A. Sutherland and Percy Magan. The Madison College encouragement lay persons to use health centers, schools, sanitariums, businesses, and other means to live in this world as Christian Adventist, while supporting themselves.

ASI founded in 1947, ASI has grown to include businesses and professional members, and has greatly expanded the work of Madison. The same characteristics that led to the success of Madison are keys to ASI’s endurance and success: the adherence to truth, guided by principles, innovation, persistence in problemsolving, and providential insight in support of the Seventh-day Adventist church. Currently there were about fifty schools, hospitals and sanitariums, restaurants, treatment rooms, farms, and a variety of shops.