SDA PRESIDENT RESIGNS AMID CONTROVERSY

The president of the Seventh-day Adventist Church has announced that he is stepping down as leader of the 10-million member denomination, according to an Associated Press report in February.

The brief news item stated that Robert Folkenberg resigned after pressure from other church officials which began earlier in the year. The report suggests that Folkenberg’s resignation comes as a result of a “controversy over his business dealings.” A recent lawsuit helped elicit the study of Folkenberg’s business practices, and in mid-January the church began its formal investigation. The suit, which had been filed against the SDA church and its president by a California businessman, charged that the defendants had backed out of a 1993 business contract.

The news article also stated that “G. Ralph Thompson, secretary of the church’s top policy-making body, is acting president.”

—MKG

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