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Jack and Wilma Rowe were medical missionaries to Fiji.
South Pacific Division Biography Missionaries Died/Imprisoned for Faith
Edmund Rudge and his wife Gladys trained as nurses but served the Adventist Church in pastoral ministry in Australia, Fiji, and Great Britain. Edmund Rudge became the president of the Australasian Division in 1939 and held that position during the years of World War II.
George H. Rue, MD, missionary physician, led in developing widely respected Adventist medical institutions in Korea despite repeated setbacks and forbidding circumstances during the years of World War II and the Korean War.
North American Division Biography Groundbreakers Medical Workers
George Rusa, a Solomon Islander, was significantly involved in the care, maintenance and operation of the fleet of mission vessels operated by the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Solomon Islands and New Guinea Islands during the second half of the twentieth century.
Soren Ruskjer, minister, home missionary leader, and conference administrator, served as president of the Western Canadian and Southern union conferences in North America.
Ratu Meli Salabogi was an influential chief of the Ra district on the island of Viti Levu, Fiji. He was instrumental in sharing the message of the Seventh-day Adventist Church with political and community leaders in Fiji.
Robert Salau was a pioneer missionary to New Guinea.
South Pacific Division Biography Groundbreakers Missionaries
Wilbur Dixon Salisbury is best known for skillful management of the expanding Adventist publishing work in Australia, where he served from 1893 to 1909.
Western Samoa, as distinct from American Samoa, was a German protectorate until the outbreak of World War I when New Zealand occupied the group. New Zealand continued to administer the islands as a trust territory until 1962, when the country became independent. In 1997 the word “Western” was dropped from its name. It is a Polynesian nation in the South Pacific Ocean consisting of two main islands, Savai’i and Upolu. Seventh-day Adventists hold approximately 5 percent of the population.
South Pacific Division Samoa Country (Based on SDA membership)
Samoa Adventist College is the senior Seventh-day Adventist secondary school in Samoa.
The Samoa Sanitarium operated on the outskirts of Apia, the capital of Samoa. between 1895 and 1905. It was built largely at the impetus of Dr. Frederick Braucht.
Donald J. Sandstrom was a pastor in Massachusetts, a missionary in South America and East Africa, and president of three conferences in the United States.
Sanitarium Health Food cafés were opened in several cities in Australia in the early 1900s.
Having made a start with cafés in Sydney and Melbourne, George Fisher, the Sanitarium Health Food Company (SHF) general manager, was keen to expand into the major cities of New Zealand.
Charles Schowe, in addition to holding a number of other portfolios, including a brief time at Atlantic Union College in the United States, gave the majority of his service on the faculty of the Avondale School for Christian Workers (ASCW), Australia. He was instrumental in raising the academic profile and standards at the school.
Henry Scott was a printer who came as one of 11 individuals to commence the work of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Australia and the South Pacific. He was one of the founders of the Echo Publishing Company in Melbourne and the printer of The Bible Echo and Signs of the Times. He remained in Australia for seven years before returning to America to work with the forerunner of Pacific Press.
Cord Ackman Scriven was an Adventist pastor and church administrator in the United States.
Alfred Semmens trained at the Battle Creek Sanitarium, where he met Martha Pallant. They married and returned to Australia, where Alfred gave leadership in a number of fledgling medical endeavors, including the Sydney Sanitarium.
The Greater Sydney Conference in Australia has been committed to providing accommodation and care for senior citizens for more than 60 years.
The Kokoka Track traverses the Owen Stanley Range, which run the length of Papua New Guinea and traditionally separate Papua from New Guinea.