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Pathfinder was the name given to two floating clinics that operated sequentially on the Sepik River, Papua New Guinea, beginning in 1965.

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Heman and Eliza Gurney were early Millerite believers and close friends of Joseph Bates. They were among the first to accept the seventh-day Sabbath and became stalwart supporters of James and Ellen White.

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​Dr. Carl Ottosen was a founder, promoter, and leader of the Seventh-day Adventist health work in Scandinavia. Together with his wife, Johanne Pauline, he founded Frydenstrand Sanatorium and Skodsborg Sanatorium in Denmark, following Dr. John Harvey Kellogg’s model from Battle Creek in America. His influence…

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​Petra (Tunheim) Skadsheim was a pioneer missionary in Southeast Asia. Ultimately she gave her life in service in the mission field to which she committed her life.

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Ernesto Alberto Bergold was one of the first Adventist missionaries to work with indigenous people in Brazil. He contributed also to the consolidation of the Brazil Food Factory.

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