About Us
A community of faith grounded in Scripture, united by hope, and sent in mission.
A community of faith grounded in Scripture, united by hope, and sent in mission.
Who We Are
Nyamvisi Seventh-day Adventist Church is a warm, Christ-centred congregation — part of the global SDA movement of over 22 million believers united by faith in the soon return of Jesus Christ.
Mission: Making disciples of Jesus Christ, growing in grace, rooted in truth, active in His end-time mission.
Vision: A thriving, Spirit-filled church reaching every home with the everlasting gospel before Christ's return.
Join Our FamilyThe Holy Scriptures, Old and New Testaments, are the written Word of God, given by divine inspiration. The inspired authors spoke and wrote as they were moved by the Holy Spirit. In this Word, God has committed to humanity the knowledge necessary for salvation.
There is one God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, a unity of three coeternal Persons. God is immortal, all-powerful, all-knowing, above all, and ever present
God the eternal Father is the Creator, Source, Sustainer, and Sovereign of all creation. He is just and holy, merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.
God the eternal Son became incarnate in Jesus Christ. Through Him all things were created, the character of God is revealed, the salvation of humanity is accomplished, and the world is judged. Forever truly God, He became also truly human, Jesus the Christ.
God the eternal Spirit was active with the Father and the Son in Creation, incarnation, and redemption. He is as much a person as are the Father and the Son. He inspired the writers of Scripture. He filled Christ’s life with power.
God has revealed in Scripture the authentic and historical account of His creative activity. He created the universe, and in a recent six-day creation the Lord made “the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them” and rested on the seventh day.
Man and woman were made in the image of God with individuality, the power and freedom to think and to do. Though created free beings, each is an indivisible unity of body, mind, and spirit, dependent upon God for life and breath and all else.
All humanity is now involved in a great controversy between Christ and Satan regarding the character of God, His law, and His sovereignty over the universe. This conflict originated in heaven when a created being, endowed with freedom of choice, in self-exaltation became Satan, God’s adversary, and led into rebellion a portion of the angels.
In Christ’s life of perfect obedience to God’s will, His suffering, death, and resurrection, God provided the only means of atonement for human sin, so that those who by faith accept this atonement may have eternal life, and the whole creation may better understand the infinite and holy love of the Creator
In infinite love and mercy God made Christ, who knew no sin, to be sin for us, so that in Him we might be made the righteousness of God. Led by the Holy Spirit we sense our need, acknowledge our sinfulness, repent of our transgressions, and exercise faith in Jesus as Saviour and Lord, Substitute and Example.
By His death on the cross Jesus triumphed over the forces of evil. He who subjugated the demonic spirits during His earthly ministry has broken their power and made certain their ultimate doom. Jesus’ victory gives us victory over the evil forces that still seek to control us, as we walk with Him in peace, joy, and assurance of His love.
The church is the community of believers who confess Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour. In continuity with the people of God in Old Testament times, we are called out from the world; and we join together for worship, for fellowship, for instruction in the Word, for the celebration of the Lord’s Supper, for service to humanity, and for the worldwide proclamation of the gospel.
The universal church is composed of all who truly believe in Christ, but in the last days, a time of widespread apostasy, a remnant has been called out to keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.
The church is one body with many members, called from every nation, kindred, tongue, and people. In Christ we are a new creation; distinctions of race, culture, learning, and nationality, and differences between high and low, rich and poor, male and female, must not be divisive among us.
By baptism we confess our faith in the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, and testify of our death to sin and of our purpose to walk in newness of life. Thus we acknowledge Christ as Lord and Saviour, become His people, and are received as members by His church.
The Lord’s Supper is a participation in the emblems of the body and blood of Jesus as an expression of faith in Him, our Lord and Saviour. In this experience of communion Christ is present to meet and strengthen His people. As we partake, we joyfully proclaim the Lord’s death until He comes again.
God bestows upon all members of His church in every age spiritual gifts that each member is to employ in loving ministry for the common good of the church and of humanity
The Scriptures testify that one of the gifts of the Holy Spirit is prophecy. This gift is an identifying mark of the remnant church and we believe it was manifested in the ministry of Ellen G. White. Her writings speak with prophetic authority and provide comfort, guidance, instruction, and correction to the church.
The great principles of God’s law are embodied in the Ten Commandments and exemplified in the life of Christ. They express God’s love, will, and purposes concerning human conduct and relationships and are binding upon all people in every age.
The seventh-day Sabbath — a memorial of creation and sanctification.
We are God’s stewards, entrusted by Him with time and opportunities, abilities and possessions, and the blessings of the earth and its resources.
We are called to be a godly people who think, feel, and act in harmony with biblical principles in all aspects of personal and social life. For the Spirit to recreate in us the character of our Lord we involve ourselves only in those things that will produce Christlike purity, health, and joy in our lives
Marriage was divinely established in Eden and affirmed by Jesus to be a lifelong union between a man and a woman in loving companionship. For the Christian a marriage commitment is to God as well as to the spouse, and should be entered into only between a man and a woman who share a common faith.
There is a sanctuary in heaven, the true tabernacle that the Lord set up and not humans. In it Christ ministers on our behalf, making available to believers the benefits of His atoning sacrifice offered once for all on the cross.
The second coming of Christ is the blessed hope of the church, the grand climax of the gospel. The Saviour’s coming will be literal, personal, visible, and worldwide. When He returns, the righteous dead will be resurrected, and together with the righteous living will be glorified and taken to heaven, but the unrighteous will die.
The wages of sin is death. But God, who alone is immortal, will grant eternal life to His redeemed. Until that day death is an unconscious state for all people. When Christ, who is our life, appears, the resurrected righteous and the living righteous will be glorified and caught up to meet their Lord.
The millennium is the thousand-year reign of Christ with His saints in heaven between the first and second resurrections. During this time the wicked dead will be judged; the earth will be utterly desolate, without living human inhabitants, but occupied by Satan and his angels
The literal, visible, glorious return of Jesus — our blessed hope.
Our Journey
At the close of creation week, God rested on the seventh day, blessed it, and made it holy (Genesis 2:2–3). Adam and Eve were the first Sabbath-keepers. This was not a Jewish institution but a universal gift to all humanity — written into the very rhythm of creation before sin ever entered the world.
God reaffirmed the seventh-day Sabbath in the Ten Commandments (Exodus 20:8–11), anchoring it in creation: "For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth." Israel was called to be a Sabbath-keeping people — a sign of the covenant between God and His people throughout all generations.
Jesus observed the seventh-day Sabbath (Luke 4:16) and declared Himself "Lord of the Sabbath" (Mark 2:28), clarifying its true meaning. The apostles and early believers continued to worship on the Sabbath (Acts 13:14, Acts 16:13, Acts 17:2). The New Testament records no command to change the day of worship.
As the Roman Empire grew in influence over Christianity, the seventh-day Sabbath was gradually supplanted. Emperor Constantine's Sunday law of AD 321 gave civil force to Sunday worship. The Council of Laodicea (AD 363) formally condemned Sabbath observance. The papacy arose to full power by AD 538, and for over a millennium the true Sabbath was suppressed — Bibles were forbidden, and those who kept God's commandments faced severe persecution.
During this "wilderness" period (Revelation 12:6), faithful Sabbath-keepers — Waldenses, Albigenses, and others — preserved the truth at great cost. Scripture was chained and burned. Yet small remnant communities kept the Sabbath light burning through the darkest ages of church history, fulfilling Daniel 7:25's prophecy that "times and laws" would be changed.
The Reformation (Luther, Calvin, Zwingli) restored Scripture's authority. In 1798, Napoleon's general captured Pope Pius VI, ending 1,260 years of papal dominance. A global prophetic awakening followed as students of Bible prophecy in multiple countries — including William Miller in America — began proclaiming the nearness of Christ's return based on Daniel 8:14.
A large movement of Christians expected Christ's return on October 22, 1844. When He did not appear visibly, it became known as the Great Disappointment. Yet a faithful remnant did not abandon the prophecy — they re-studied Daniel 8:14 and discovered Christ had entered the Most Holy Place of the heavenly sanctuary, beginning His final work of investigative judgment.
James White, Ellen G. White, Joseph Bates, Hiram Edson and others re-studied Scripture intensively. They rediscovered the seventh-day Sabbath from Seventh Day Baptists, the state of the dead (soul sleep), and the sanctuary truth. Ellen G. White was given prophetic visions confirming these biblical discoveries — fulfilling Revelation 12:17 and 19:10.
The eneral Conference of Seventh-day Adventists was formally organized in Battle Creek, Michigan, with 3,500 members and 125 churches. The name "Seventh-day Adventist" was chosen to proclaim two distinctive truths: the seventh-day Sabbath and the soon Second Advent of Jesus Christ.
J. N. Andrews became the Church's first official missionary to Europe in 1874, launching a global mission. SDA missionaries arrived in East Africa in the early 1900s, establishing schools, clinics, and churches across Tanzania. Nyamvisi SDA Church stands as part of this great chain of truth stretching from Eden to our day.
The Seventh-day Adventist Church now ministers in 200+ countries with over 22 million baptized members. As the remnant of Revelation 12:17 — keeping the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus — we continue to proclaim the Three Angels' Messages and prepare a people for Christ's glorious return. Nyamvisi SDA Church is proud to be part of this mission.
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