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William Ralph Howse was an Australian Seventh-day Adventist printer who ran printing presses at Adventist mission stations in French Polynesia and in the Cook Islands and then worked in Australia for almost 15 years at Signs Press at Warburton, Victoria, and 17 years at Avondale Press at Cooranbong, New South Wales.
Bertram Olaf Johanson held management positions in the Seventh-day Adventist Church’s (SDA) Sanitarium Health Food Company (SHF) for over thirty years, and at retirement was the Assistant Secretary of the Health Food Department of the Australasian Division (now the South Pacific Division, [SPD]) of the General Conference of the SDA church.
Pastor Johan Johanson held a range of pastoral and administrative positions in the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Australia, including manager of the Signs Publishing Company; principal of the Australasian Missionary College; president of union missions in Japan, Korea, and Manchuria; and manager of the Australasian Conference Association.
Walter Johanson worked for the Seventh-day Adventist Church for thirty years, working in finance and management. The last nine years of his working life were spent as the manager of the Signs Publishing Company in Warburton, Victoria, Australia.
Harold George Josephs was an evangelist, pastor, and educational administrator. Harold and Olive Josephs were missionaries to India.
South Pacific Division Biography Educators Missionaries Couples
James William Kent, a Seventh-day Adventist pastor and evangelist in Australia and New Zealand, pioneered inner-city evangelism. In his eighties, Kent championed the rebuttal of the “new theology” promoted by Desmond Ford.
Lens and Betty Larwood were medical missionaries at Atoifi Hospital on the island of Malaita in the Solomon Islands. In August 1979 Lens lost his life in the course of his duties in a tractor accident.
South Pacific Division Biography Missionaries Died/Imprisoned for Faith
Benjamin Hamilton McMahon was an Australian Seventh-day Adventist educator who worked in the Adventist education system of the Australasian Division (now South Pacific Division) as a teacher and administrator for over three decades.
Henry Ernest McMahon was an Australian Seventh-day Adventist doctor.
Lynn McMahon was an Australian Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) medical doctor who was the first medical director of the Atoifi Hospital, an SDA mission hospital on the island of Malaita in the British Solomon Islands Protectorate (now, Solomon Islands).
Walter Miller, a printer, was an early convert to the Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) faith in Melbourne, Australia.
Cyril Stewart Palmer was a teacher, principal, minister, missionary, and administrator in the Australasian (now South Pacific) Division of the Seventh-day Adventist Church for forty-two years.
Cyril and Marie Jean Pascoe worked for the Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) Church for 33 years, mostly as missionaries in Papua New Guinea, and then spent a further 12 years as self-supporting missionaries in the South Pacific, which enabled them to work in areas closed to the SDA Church.
Martin Pascoe and his wife, Joyce, were Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) missionaries in Papua New Guinea (PNG) for more than 27 years.
Pastor Bert Pietz and Mary Grace Pietz were Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) missionaries to the New Hebrides (now Vanuatu) and Papua New Guinea who also engaged in ministry in Australia, and Bert served as president of the Tasmanian Conference for six years.
The first Seventh-day Adventist post-elementary school set up in New Zealand, Pukekura Training School ran both high-school and training-school courses from 1908 to 1912.
Philip Bulpit Rudge was an Australian Seventh-day Adventist businessman who established the Church’s health-food business in Australia as a financially viable concern. He later became an evangelist and pioneered the Adventist missions for the Aboriginal people of Queensland and New South Wales.
Walter Matthew Rhodes Scragg was an Australian Seventh-day Adventist evangelist and administrator who worked in Australia and New Zealand.
George Graham Stewart was a Seventh-day Adventist pastor, evangelist, missionary and administrator who gave more than fifty years of service to the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Australasian (now South Pacific) Division.
Penisimani (Benjamin) Tavodi (Ta-von-dy) was a Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) Fijian ministerial worker who was a pioneer missionary in the territory of Papua. He was the first SDA missionary to die in service on the island of New Guinea.
South Pacific Division Biography Groundbreakers Missionaries Died/Imprisoned for Faith Couples