2009

Charles Mills was an elder at a Seventh-day Adventist church. He began to feel impressed that more was needed because the church, as a whole, had departed from what he believed to be present truth and was no longer feeding the people of the church as God had intended. He began a separate Bible study with a small group of people in his home, once a week. They began with a book by Julius Gilbert White entitled “The Christians’ Experience and the Overcoming of Sin.” Four to eight people attended this group.

2010

The study went on for over a year, as each page of the book, in conjunction with the references to the writings of the Bible and Ellen G. White, was read word by word, discussed, questions asked and answered. Spiritual growth ensued in each of the participants. While this was going on, Charles felt impressed of the need to write a book discussing how the current Seventh-day Adventist Church was so different from the historic Seventh-day Adventist Church and the message given by God to teach and preach to the world.

Each of the participants in the group also took part, at least initially, with the preparation of the book, along with the group study. As time went on, the group began a different study (now regularly six people) while at the same time, doing work editing or preparing material for the book. By the time the book was finished, it had become obvious that what we had thought of as the remnant church was not a church after God’s order at all; that the spiritual truths of the sanctuary message, righteousness by His faith, the Antitypical Day of Atonement, the reality of the Law of God and its place in our lives, etc., were no longer taught at all in the church, let alone the overcoming of sin, which can only be done when the whole message is given, not bits and pieces or none at all.

2013/2014

Secondly in February of 2014, we felt the burden to begin to publish the works of the pioneers that had been left to rot in the dust for so long. God provided us with a list of primary books establishing the basis of our faith in relation to the Scriptures as God provided it to them. Then, He provided us with the necessary tools to do the work in the way of digital printers, binders, cutter, etc., once again in unbelievable fashion (for example, the initial retail cost of the digital printer was in excess of $20,000.00 and God provided a used one that had been leased for a little over a year for a little over $2,000.00 in good working order). He also provided us with the means to obtain original works so we could insure the accuracy and integrity of the books God has led us to publish, for we discovered that certain people, feigning to be Adventists, had substantially altered some books (of particular note, Daniel and the Revelation by Uriah Smith, initially published in 1897. By 1944, it was no longer his book even though it bore his name because of the numerous changes, alterations, deletions and additions that had been made after his death).

We have now published over 40 of those books, with another 50+ being edited and prepared for publishing. We know our time is short. The waymarks God has provided to His church to advise us and keep us in the straight and narrow path are rapidly passing and coming to a close. But we are not yet done.

2014/2015

During these formative years, God used this time to form His character more fully in each of us. He was preparing us for some trying times that were to come our way, things we did not expect to happen, but did. The first of these was the group we had chosen to become a part of in 2011, claiming to be historical Seventh-day Adventists, turned out not to be a true statement. We discovered them bringing in persons, particularly to their camp meetings, who did not have or preach present truth. They paid lip service to the pioneers, but rejected their writings outright. It was for this reason, we believe, that God led us to this group first: a) to expose the errors they were making; b) to encourage them to correct these errors and how to do so; and c) if they refused [which they did], to build us up so we could depart in peace and carry on the work without them. God continues to protect His children when they are engaged in humbling themselves before Him and allowing Him to do His work through them.

2016

God led us to try the second group that was founded by Elder Manns in 1915 under a different name; The General Assembly Free Seventh-day Adventists. Initially, they seemed to be closer to the true Adventist message, as their statement of beliefs was the original as set forth by the founders and in accordance with the pioneer beliefs. But it was not long, as this church revised its charter and its own statement of beliefs to reflect more fully God’s truth as it had been revealed to us by the Holy Spirit, that this second group’s real character, that was not in accordance with the character of Christ was shown. But God used this exposure to open the door to a third group we had not been previously aware of that does believe, teach and practice present truth. We are now a part of that group and we hope, as God enables us, both as a church and as a group of Bible-believing, God-fearing, Free Historical Adventist churches; named, The Free Seventh-day Adventists World Assembly. As we continue to upgrade our work and our websites, which the message of truth will go forth to His glory to the entire world, and that many will be converted because God is in the work, and not man.

THE FUTURE

God has instructed us through His prophet that we are not to be living in the city. Living in the city is equivalent to staying in Egypt as a type of sin and no place for the believer. We are to work in the city as God’s ambassadors for truth, but not live there. God has shown us we need to be self-sustaining in the work as the Waldensians were during the Dark Ages. We are to grow our own food, provide our own sanitarium and health center; continue the publishing work, teach and instruct those who are called and willing to answer the call in God’s truth through our own theological seminary, how to do the farming and field work to be self-sustaining, the principles of the health message and the use of what God intended to be used to bring about complete healing to the body, God’s temple, as well as the mind and the soul; as well as a place to eat where the public can be ministered to with good Vegan food and materials presenting present truth to them. God has shown us a location that would meet this burden of living in the country, close enough to several good sized places to minister, but far enough away from the city not to be tempted by anything offered therein. We are now confident that God will provide us the means, as He has always done in the past, to make this move and go forward in our obedience to Him and His will for us.

We are, in some degree, like the blazing star mentioned for example, in Revelation 8. Our history will not be long. The light of God’s truth is shining forth now and it will intensify as the end draws nearer and nearer. But that time is so close, the blazing light of God’s truth will seem to be no more than a bright flash and when probation closes for all mankind, it will become so dark that no light will be seen any longer except that already abiding in the lives of those who have indeed overcome sin in this life and formed the character of Jesus within. It is in this light we stand today and it is in this light we hope and pray that you will also stand in, the glory of God, the truth of God, the salvation of God. Amen.