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Frank Salway was a missionary builder who served primarily in Kenya, but also extended his services to Tanganyika and Uganda. He helped in the construction of various mission stations, churches, mission homes, dispensaries, hospitals, and other facilities from 1924 until his death in 1934.

Fred E. Schlehuber was a missionary to Kenya, Tanganyika, and the Far East.

Catherine Jeanette Schuil was a British missionary educator, administrator, and curriculum developer for the Adventist schools in Kenya. She served for over two decades before returning to England in 1951 after her mother became ill and needed her care.

Segero Dispensary is an Adventist health facility in Western Kenya that opened in 1975.

Mulupi Shitanda was chief of the Kabras people in Western Kenya. Although not an Adventist, he assisted the Adventists by designating land and granting it to the Adventists so Chebwai Adventist Mission could be established.

Donald Karr “D. K.” Short and his wife, Garnette, served as missionaries in Africa for 37 years.

Paulo araap Siele was the first ordained minister from the Kipsigis people of Kenya.

Musa araap Sino was a pioneer Adventist in the Tendwo area of southern Nandi, Kenya, and the first Terik Adventist.

Christopher Sparrow was a pioneer Adventist missionary and farmer in South Africa, Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), and Kenya. He was born in November 1862 in Barthust, Grahamstown, in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. He was the eldest of 12 children born to Frederick and Emma Sparrow. He was named after his maternal grandfather Christopher Fincham.

Cyril Ebden Sparrow was a pioneer Adventist literature evangelist, farmer, and businessman in South Africa.

The coming of Adventism to the western region of Kenya is directly attributed to a South African settler farmer of British descent named David Sparrow, who arrived with his wife Sallie and son Bert in British East Africa in December 1911. Unlike other regions that were entered through missionary effort, David Sparrow and his wife Sallie were only settler farmers. They settled at the Uasin Gishu Plateau where they shared their faith with the Nandi people, bringing to the faith a good number and planting several churches before their return to South Africa in 1941.

Frederick Sparrow Jr. was a pioneer Adventist missionary who was in the first party that opened up the Solusi Mission near Bulawayo in Zimbabwe.

Hubert Sparrow was a second-generation Adventist missionary, teacher, pastor, and church administrator in eastern and southern Africa. His ministry included service in ten different countries in Africa where he established several mission stations and opened new mission frontiers.

Sarah Ann Sparrow, better known as Sallie Sparrow, went to British East Africa in 1911 with her husband David Sparrow, and together they pioneered the Adventist faith among the Nandi people of western Kenya. They planted the first Adventist church in western Kenya and went on to take the faith to many Africans and European settlers in the Eldoret area.

Martha Staples (born Long) was a pioneer Seventh-day Adventist in Africa – joining the faith in 1889. She was a foundational member of the Rokeby Park Seventh-day Adventist Church organized in 1889. It was one of the first Adventist churches on the continent.

Kenneth Sturdevant and his wife, Evelyn, devoted their retirement years to medical mission work in Africa (Kenya and Tanganyika), New Guinea, and Thailand.

Donald Swan was an American missionary publisher who served in Kenya under the East Africa Union. For much of his missionary work in Kenya, Swan was based at the Africa Herald Publishing House in Kenya, serving between 1968 and 1984. His tenure at the publishing house saw tremendous growth in the literature ministry.

Wilma and Jack Tegler were American missionary educators to Africa, who spent much of their missionary years in Kenya. They served at the Maxwell School in Nairobi and also at the Kamagambo Training School in south-western Kenya.

Johana araap Telo was a pioneer Kipsigis Seventh-day Adventist, evangelist, and teacher. Johana araap Telo was born about the year 1900 at Sosiot in Kericho in Western Kenya.