Abstract:
Within a century of its establishment the Seventh-day Adventist church had spread from America to Europe and to Africa from where it spread to Nigeria and to Igboland in particular and finally began to make an appearance in Onitsha in 1958. From 1958 when it made its skirmish appearance in Onitsha, it had wrestled with the challenges of low acceptability among the people, who prefered to worship on Sunday as against Saturday preached and observed by the Seventh-day Adventist church. The need for this research is to fill a gap in knowledge about the church necessitated by the fact that there had not been any scholarly work done on the Seventh-day Adventist church Onitsha. The accomplished research has contributed in bringing the Seventh-day Adventist church Onitsha to lime light which will enhance its gospel acceptability. The accomplished research will be of immense benefit to the Seventh-day Adventist church Onitsha and to the entire Christian churches in the country that will have cause to use the research information or findings. This work as a contribution to knowledge employed qualitative research methodology to accomplish a holistic narrative on Seventh-day Adventist church Onitsha in the period under study. Attempt was made to interpret, analyze and present the results chronologically and thematically. Information gathered from this narrative rely mainly on primary sources which are oral interviews, archival materials, and secondary and internet sources in its five chapters. The result of this effort was that the challenges which was inimical to the gospel spread of the Seventh-day Adventist Church Onitsha was diagnosed and workable recommendations made
