Founding convention at Battle Creek

Battle Creek, Michigan, was the site of a Protestant church founding convention in 1863. The supplied record states that on May 21, 1863, the Seventh-day Adventist Church was officially founded in Battle Creek, Michigan. The passages do not separately date the convention itself, so the May 21 date is retained only as the founding date stated in the record rather than as a sourced date for the convention's sessions. The resulting world church is governed by a General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, with smaller regions administered by divisions, unions, local conferences, and local missions.