Grellmann, Hélio Luiz (1951–2005)

By The Brazilian White Center – UNASP

The Brazilian White Center – UNASP is a team of teachers and students at the Brazilian Ellen G. White Research Center – UNASP at the Brazilian Adventist University, Campus Engenheiro, Coelho, SP. The team was supervised by Drs. Adolfo Semo Suárez, Renato Stencel, and Carlos Flávio Teixeira. Bruno Sales Gomes Ferreira provided technical support. The following names are of team members: Adriane Ferrari Silva, Álan Gracioto Alexandre, Allen Jair Urcia Santa Cruz, Camila Chede Amaral Lucena, Camilla Rodrigues Seixas, Daniel Fernandes Teodoro, Danillo Alfredo Rios Junior, Danilo Fauster de Souza, Débora Arana Mayer, Elvis Eli Martins Filho, Felipe Cardoso do Nascimento, Fernanda Nascimento Oliveira, Gabriel Pilon Galvani, Giovana de Castro Vaz, Guilherme Cardoso Ricardo Martins, Gustavo Costa Vieira Novaes, Ingrid Sthéfane Santos Andrade, Isabela Pimenta Gravina, Ivo Ribeiro de Carvalho, Jhoseyr Davison Voos dos Santos, João Lucas Moraes Pereira, Kalline Meira Rocha Santos, Larissa Menegazzo Nunes, Letícia Miola Figueiredo, Luan Alves Cota Mól, Lucas Almeida dos Santos, Lucas Arteaga Aquino, Lucas Dias de Melo, Matheus Brabo Peres, Mayla Magaieski Graepp, Milena Guimarães Silva, Natália Padilha Corrêa, Rafaela Lima Gouvêa, Rogel Maio Nogueira Tavares Filho, Ryan Matheus do Ouro Medeiros, Samara Souza Santos, Sergio Henrique Micael Santos, Suelen Alves de Almeida, Talita Paim Veloso de Castro, Thais Cristina Benedetti, Thaís Caroline de Almeida Lima, Vanessa Stehling Belgd, Victor Alves Pereira, Vinicios Fernandes Alencar, Vinícius Pereira Nascimento, Vitória Regina Boita da Silva, William Edward Timm, Julio Cesar Ribeiro, Ellen Deó Bortolotte, Maria Júlia dos Santos Galvani, Giovana Souto Pereira, Victor Hugo Vaz Storch, and Dinely Luana Pereira.

First Published: June 17, 2021

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Hélio Luiz Grellmann was an administrator and medical doctor from Brazil.

Early Years

Hélio Luiz Grellmann was born on February 12, 1951 in Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Son of Albano Henrique Grellmann (1918-1997) and Ilka Weber Grellmann (1925-2015). He had two siblings from his father's first marriage: Lauro Manfredo Grellmann and Lilia Ema Seibert, and four from his father's second marriage: Norma Ligia Seidl; Alia Ledi Grellmann Severo; Delcy H. Grellmann Ferraz de Campos and Joel Henrique Grellmann.¹

The Grellmann family learned the Adventist message in 1952 when pastor Antônio Nogueira Júnior became the district pastor of Santa Maria. Seeking to visit all the people in the district, one day he looked for a family that was on his list of members and who supposedly lived on a rice farm. However, when arriving there he found that they had moved. He asked a young man if there were any Adventists around. He directed him to the Albano Grellmann family, that was actually Lutheran. Despite the misunderstanding, the visit resulted in blessings as they showed a great interest in learning more about Adventist beliefs. Some time after that, they were baptized² and Hélio grew up in his parent’s faith.

He completed primary and secondary school at Cruzeiro do Sul Adventist Academy in Taquara, Rio Grande do Sul. Then he graduated with an accounting and economics degree from Sao Judas University in São Paulo. On July 14, 1971, he married Marlene Valdez Grellmann in Santa Maria. From this union were born: Emerson Luiz V. Grellmann, Elisane Lislei Grellmann (Almeida) and Ellen Luciene Grellmann (McKendrick). Marlene accompanied her husband in the fields where he worked, serving as a teacher in several Adventist schools.³

Hélio began working for the Adventist Church in 1972 when he accepted the invitation to work as treasurer of the Sao Paulo Adventist Hospital.⁴ Then, he was an accountant at Sao Paulo Conference from 1974 to 1975.⁵ After that, he accepted an invitation to work in the data processing area of the South Brazil Union Conference where he remained until 1976.⁶ In the division health food company, (now Brazil food factory) he was treasurer in 1977 and financial director from 1978 to 1981.⁷ Later, he was the financial director of the Voice of Prophecy Brazil from 1982 to 1983.⁸ In 1984, he was secretary-treasurer of the North Coast Mission.⁹ The following year, he accepted an invitation to become an auditor for the Brazil Publishing House where he worked until 1986.¹⁰

In the following years, in order to better serve God, Hélio decided to take a new direction in his career. He studied medicine at Santo Amaro University in Sao Paulo. In earlier years, Hélio had already obtained a nursing degree at Brazil College (now Central Adventist University of Sao Paulo) and he had obtained a master’s degree in administration at the University of Sao Paulo State (1981).¹¹ In 1991, he was called to practice his new profession at Sao Paulo Adventist Hospital where he was a general practitioner, endoscopist, and gastroenterologist until 2002.¹² At that time he was also a professor of postgraduate studies at the Brazil College from 1996 to 2000,¹³ teaching the subjects of obstetrics nursing, philosophy, and health.¹⁴

In 2003, he accepted the invitation to become a professor of medicine at Montemorelos University and a doctor at the university's La Carlota Hospital in México where he remained until his death.¹⁵ Hélio passed away on May 2, 2005 in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, México and was buried in McAllen, Texas, United States.¹⁶ As an administrator and physician, he served the Adventist Church for 33 years. Fifteen days before his death, he published the book Cristianismo & terapias alternativas: fisiologia e misticismo (Christianity & Alternative Therapies: Physiology and Mysticism) where he left a warning about the mystical forms of medical practices that are increasingly used when approaching the end of times.¹⁷

Sources

Grellmann, Lauro. Biographical Form. Collection of the National Center of Adventist History/Ellen G. White Research Center: UNASP-EC, also known as Brazil College, Engenheiro Coelho, SP. Bookcase: 02. Shelf: 06. Folder/Box: “Grellmann, Hélio.”

Junior, A. Nogueira. “Conversão de Cinco Famílias.” Revista Adventista, August 1960.

Seventh-day Adventist Yearbook. Washington, D.C.: Review and Herald Publishing Association. Various years.

Notes

Lauro Grellmann, Biographical Form, Collection of the National Center of Adventist History/Ellen G. White Research Center: UNASP-EC, also known as Brazil College, Engenheiro Coelho, SP, 1.↩
Junior, A. Nogueira, “Conversão de Cinco Famílias,” Revista Adventista, August 1960, 31.↩
Lauro Grellmann, 2.↩
“São Paulo Adventist Hospital,” Seventh-day Adventist Yearbook (Washington, D.C.: Review and Herald Publishing Association, 1973,74), p. 389.↩
“São Paulo Conference,” Seventh-day Adventist Yearbook (Washington, D.C.: Review and Herald Publishing Association, 1975), 243; “São Paulo Conference,” Seventh-day Adventist Yearbook (Washington, D.C.: Review and Herald Publishing Association, 1976), 261; Lauro Grellmann, 3.↩
Lauro Grellmann, 3.↩
“Division Health Food Company,” Seventh-day Adventist Yearbook (Washington, D.C.: Review and Herald Publishing Association, 1978), 413; “Division Health Food Company,” Seventh-day Adventist Yearbook (Washington, D.C.: Review and Herald Publishing Association, 1981), 425.↩
“South American Division,” Seventh-day Adventist Yearbook (Washington, D.C.: Review and Herald Publishing Association, 1983), 283; “South American Division,” Seventh-day Adventist Yearbook (Washington, D.C.: Review and Herald Publishing Association, 1984), 287.↩
“North Coast Mission,” Seventh-day Adventist Yearbook (Washington, D.C.: Review and Herald Publishing Association, 1985), 311.↩
“Central Brazil Union Conference,” Seventh-day Adventist Yearbook (Washington, D.C.: Review and Herald Publishing Association, 1986), 267; Lauro Grellmann, 3.↩
Lauro Grellmann, 2.↩
“São Paulo Adventist Hospital,” Seventh-day Adventist Yearbook (Washington, D.C.: Review and Herald Publishing Association, 1992), 492; Lauro Grellmann, 3.↩
“School of Graduate Studies,” Seventh-day Adventist Yearbook (Washington, D.C.: Review and Herald Publishing Association, 1997), 388; “School of Graduate Studies,” Seventh-day Adventist Yearbook (Washington, D.C.: Review and Herald Publishing Association, 2001), 398.↩
“School of Graduate Studies,” Seventh-day Adventist Yearbook (Washington, D.C.: Review and Herald Publishing Association, 1999), 405; “School of Graduate Studies,” Seventh-day Adventist Yearbook (Washington, D.C.: Review and Herald Publishing Association, 2000), 408.↩
“Montemorelos University,” Seventh-day Adventist Yearbook (Washington, D.C.: Review and Herald Publishing Association, 2003), 456; “Montemorelos University,” Seventh-day Adventist Yearbook (Washington, D.C.: Review and Herald Publishing Association, 2005), 453.↩
Lauro Grellmann, 3; “Hélio Luiz Grellmann,” Revista Adventista, June 2005, 36.↩