Signs of the Times Publishing Association

Signs of the Times Publishing Association (STPA), is one publishing house of the 62 Signs of the Times Publishing Houses around the world that belongs to the Seventh-day Adventist Church (SDA) and it is the only official publishing house in the language of Chinese. STPA was first established by an American pastor named Dr. Harry Willis Miller in Henan province, China in 1905. After relocated several times through years, STPA was finally moved to Taipei, Taiwan (its current position) in 1963. STPA provides not only spiritual publications for SDA members, but also promotes its reading materials door to door through literature evangelists in order to spread God's gospel.

Contents

• History
• Chief Managers
• Sister Organizations
• References

The first Signs of the Times Publishing House was originally established in 1852 by an American pastor named James White (1821–1881), who purchased a small press and started to print pamphlets. Based upon that, it gradually developed and became the first publishing house of SDA Publishing Association. Adventist Church claimed currently she has a worldwide baptized membership of about over 17 million people and she operates numerous institutions, churches, schools, healthy centers, clinics, hospitals and 62 publishing houses over 200 countries.