ABOUT SONOMA
A brief history of
Sonoma Adventist College
Sonoma Adventist College can trace its origins to the year 1967 when the growing need of the work for the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon islands necessitated the amalgamation of Kabiufa Adventist College of Goroka, Eastern Highlands, and Jones Missionary College of Kambubu, East New Britain.
By 1968, the Ministerial Department of the college was established. This was made possible by the faithful workmanship of the remnant students and teachers of Jones Missionary College of Kambubu. This little band of workers was responsible for the initial task of planning, clearing, erecting buildings, and maintaining the general progress of work on the new site. Their work was complemented by ‘Fly and Build’ volunteers, from Australians and New Zealanders. The construction of these buildings enabled the commencement of Primary Teacher Education Department in 1970.
The Seventh-day Adventist Church operates a world-wide school system to ensure that youth receive a holistic education with emphasis on the physical, mental, social and spiritual education in harmony with denominational standards and ideals. It also seeks to produce good citizens and promote national development similar to run public schools.
The Church believes that there is a distinctive body of knowledge with its values and ideals that must be transmitted to each succeeding generation in order for the church continues to achieve its mission. It believes that true education involves more than mere academic, professional and vocational preparation. It incorporates every aspect of life during the whole period of existence possible to man.
The Church bases all its educational programs on the underlying philosophy that:
True education involves the harmonious development of the physical, mental, social and spiritual powers, preparing the student for the joy of service in this world, and for the joy of the wider service in the world to come.
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First year of a two-year secretarial course began.