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The Arabic Union Mission of Seventh-day Adventists had a brief 17-year history (1927-1944).
Middle East and North Africa Union Mission Church Administrative Unit
Romualdo Bertola was a pioneering Italian evangelist in the late 1800s.
In 1899 Ida Schlegel, a nurse who was trained at the Adventist Sanitarium in Basel, Switzerland, was sent as a missionary nurse to Cairo, Egypt, along with Louis Passebois and his wife, who were also trained nurses.
Middle East and North Africa Union Mission Biography Missionaries Medical Workers Women
Frederick William Bishop was one of the first Adventist colporteurs and missionaries in Chile. Sent from California to South America by the Foreign Mission Board of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, he led many people to conversion, from which the main pioneers and pillars for the growth of the work emerged.
South American Division Biography Groundbreakers Missionaries
Egypt was where the Adventist work in the Middle East first began. Around 1877 Italian Adventists in Naples, Italy, sent the French paper "Signes des Temps" to their Italian friends in Alexandria, and corresponded with them about the church’s teachings.
Middle East and North Africa Union Mission Egypt Country (Based on SDA membership)
The first record of the Levant Union Mission appears in the 1907 SDA Yearbook.
Middle East and North Africa Union Mission Church Administrative Unit
Werner Konrad Vyhmeister, a visionary, minister, administrator, and educator, whose services spanned over six decades, left a major impact on the Adventist Church’s mission throughout America, Asia, and Africa.