White manuscript files and (4) in counsel with the leading officers of the General Conference in 19, laid the foundation for continuing the trusteeship in perpetuity. White, published in 1926 (3) carried forward the thorough indexing of the Ellen G. White materials.ĭuring the 19 years they worked together, the original members, in addition to routine tasks, (1) published 10 posthumous compilations (2) produced an 865-page Comprehensive Index to the Writings of Ellen G. From 1915 to 1937 the work was carried on at Elmshaven in a rented office building with a vault that was used to house the E. He filled this office until his death in 1937. White, the only member of the board devoting full-time to the work of the trustees. The secretaryship, after being held for a short time by C. When the board was first organized in 1915, A. The board now carries a fourth responsibility, which has developed naturally through the years-acquainting Seventh-day Adventists and others with Mrs.
At the Toronto General Conference Session in 2000, the world church expanded the mission of the organization to include a responsibility for promoting Adventist history for the entire denomination. The mission of the White Estate is to circulate Ellen White's writings, translate them, and provide resources for helping to better understand her life and ministry. The White Estate has branch offices and research centers at Adventist universities and colleges around the world with at least one center in each division of the world church. It has an independent and self-perpetuating board, but the organization receives an annual allocation just like other departments of the world headquarters.
The headquarters is located at the General Conference in Silver Spring, Maryland, where it functions as a quasi-independent department of the denomination. White's last will and testament to act as the custodian of her writings, which Seventh-day Adventists consider as divinely inspired. White Estate, Incorporated, or simply the ( Ellen) White Estate, is an organization created in 1933 by the five trustees named in Ellen G.