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Sara McEnterfer was a book binder, nurse, traveling companion, private secretary, stenographer, typist, and “executive secretary” who effectively managed Ellen White’s household operations, visitors, and travel arrangements. She was one of White’s most trusted confidants and friends.
Baptist and Seventh Day Baptist minister who briefly became a Seventh-day Adventist educational leader.
Fred L. Mead was an early leader in Adventist colporteur ministry and, with his wife Rosie Cochran Mead, among the church’s earliest missionaries to the indigenous people of southern Africa.
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"Message" magazine is an Adventist periodical founded in 1934 that represents one of the most significant and enduring publishing efforts by the Seventh-day Adventist Church for an African American audience. Developed as an evangelistic “sharing” magazine, it combined doctrinal instruction and culturally relevant content and served as the central medium through which Black Adventist identity, mission, and social engagement were expressed.
Eli B. Miller was a pioneer Adventist educator and missionary, the first professor of elocution or homiletics in Adventist history, and contributor and editor of Bible Readings and some of the earliest Sabbath School lessons.
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William Miller was a farmer turned revivalist who predicted that the world would end “about the year 1843.” His movement represents one of the most dramatic instances of American millennial fervor and spawned several new religious movements, the largest of which today is the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
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The Millerite movement was a religious revival largely centered in North America. The primary catalyst of the Millerite movement was William Miller (1782-1849), who proclaimed the premillennial Second Advent of Jesus Christ “about the year 1843.”
Hannah More (or Moore) was a missionary, a teacher, and an early Seventh-day Adventist convert (1866) whose tragic death helped prompt the church to develop a more intentional approach to welfare and hospitality.
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Eliza Happy Morton was an Adventist author, educator, pedagogical reformer, poet, musician, musical composer, church administrator, and philanthropist. She is best remembered for her geography textbooks.
Bessie Mount was a teacher, author, editor, and administrator who served as a missionary in China for 31 years. Her Chinese name was 贝茜.芒特 (pinyin: Bèi qiàn. Máng tè). She was a prisoner of war during World War II. During her final decades of service she was a trusted staff member of the Ellen G. White Estate.
Helge T. Nelson was an Adventist from Chicago, Illinois, who believed that he was the prophetic successor to Ellen G. White and made national news for disrupting church services and assaulting White.
Seventh-day Adventist medical facility that operated for a century in Massachusetts. The sanitarium went through several name changes. It was nicknamed the Melrose Sanitarium when it moved to a new location and renamed the New England Memorial Hospital in 1967 and the Boston Regional Medical Center in 1995.
Newark Sanitarium operated as a privately owned health retreat and sanitarium in Newark, Ohio.
Otis and Mary were former Millerites and Sabbatarian Adventists from Dorchester, Massachusetts. Census records list his occupation as a farmer. Together they were two of the earliest and most stalwart supporters of James and Ellen White. They provided early financial, logistical, and moral support at a crucial stage in the formation of the Sabbatarian Adventist cause.
Henry Norman, a charlatan who professed to be a wealthy sea captain to early Adventist church leaders in 1899, claimed that he would donate a vast fortune to the Seventh-day Adventist Church for missions. His subsequent disappearance caused a scandal among Adventists.
North American Division of Seventh-day Adventists (NAD) is a religious non-profit organization that serves church members and Adventist institutions in the United States, Bermuda, Canada, St. Pierre and Miquelon, Johnston Island, Midway Islands, and the islands of the Guam-Micronesia territory. The headquarters is located at 9705 Patuxent Woods Drive, Columbia, Maryland.
Oakwood Sanitarium was an Adventist health institution established at Ellen White’s urging on the campus of Oakwood Manual Training School, today known as Oakwood University.
John Oss (史約翰; Pinyin Shǐ Yuēhàn) was an Adventist colporteur, minister, administrator, and missionary to China. He was the official pioneer missionary to open the first wave of the denomination’s work in Mongolia. He witnessed wars in China and was a prisoner of war.
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A youth ministry of the Seventh-day Adventist Church focused on children from the age of ten through young adult. Officially adopted by the denomination in 1950, the purpose of Pathfinder Clubs is to train and mentor young people into leadership roles within the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Pathfinder Clubs provide opportunities for active and constructive roles for young people within both the community and denomination.
Emily Catherine Clemons was an educator, author, poet, and from 1844 to 1845 a Millerite “laborer” exhorting people to be ready for Christ’s impending return.