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Walter Scragg, born in New Zealand, served the Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) Church as an evangelist, broadcaster, college principal, departmental director, and administrator. He spent 13 years at the General Conference headquarters in Washington, D.C., and was president of both the Northern European/West Africa Division and the South Pacific Division of Seventh-day Adventists.
Lawrence Shields and his wife, Marion worked as a pastoral couple in Australia and were missionaries to Papua New Guinea. Lawrence was a pilot in the Seventh-day Adventist Church aviation program and was killed in a tragic plane crash in April 1973.
South Pacific Division Biography Missionaries Died/Imprisoned for Faith
Mary Maud Smart, an Adventist educator, taught in the South Pacific for forty-six years. She was a respected pioneer of Seventh-day Adventist educational philosophy, principles, and practice.
South Pacific Division Biography Educators Groundbreakers Women
Leonard C. Thompson and his wife, Eileen, were missionaries to New Guinea. Their service was cut short when Thompson became a prisoner of war during the Japanese invasion during World War II.
South Pacific Division Biography Missionaries Died/Imprisoned for Faith
Brian Townend was a principal, teacher trainer, and curriculum supervisor who is now remembered primarily for his many years of service as a librarian at Avondale College (now Avondale University). He and his wife, Daphne, established or upgraded 21 libraries, mostly in schools across the Pacific.
Horace Watts was a career length pastor, youth leader and missionary for the Seventh-day Adventist Church, noted for being very much a people person.
Erick Walter Were, an Adventist photographer, film producer, and writer, was born on June 21, 1914, in Adelaide, South Australia.