Early 21st Century
Adventists began to use YouTube and other Internet media to present their messages. These included video addresses from the then-president of the United States George W. Bush, and Hillary Clinton.
A review of membership revealed an average of about 2,900 people were joining the Seventh-day Adventist Church every day, which show the denomination now has 16.6 million adult baptized members according to church statistics. Denominational membership showed strong growth and membership audits showed for 2009 as the seventh consecutive year the church had a net gain of more than one million members. In October 2011, David Trim, director of the Archives, Statistics and Research department, called for the denomination to reassess its membership records. The numbers are "not entirely accurate," Trim asserted. He did not consider the inaccuracy intentional. Rather he said the record keeping system was flawed. It needed to be more accurate and transparent. The audits, he said, will likely result in a lower overall membership number than the recent claim of 16.5 million.
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