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Pioneer physician and minister Horatio Samuel Lay was the founding medical director of the Health Reform Institute, the Seventh-day Adventist Church’s first health institution, and founding editor of The Health Reformer, the denomination’s first health periodical.
Bernhard Albert Aaen was an ordained minister, missionary to Indonesia, educator, and administrator from North Dakota, U.S.A.
Southern Asia-Pacific Division Biography Educators Missionaries
Don L. Aalborg served as a pastor-evangelist and in conference administration as a youth director, educational superintendent, executive secretary and president, during 37 years of ministry, 23 of them in the Georgia-Cumberland Conference.
Dr. Donald Abbott was a missionary doctor to Africa who served in various countries, including Kenya.
East-Central Africa Division Biography Missionaries Medical Workers
George Abbott, physician and author, was the first dean of what became the School of Medicine at Loma Linda University and served for more than three decades in the roles of medical director and surgeon at leading Adventist sanitariums. Dr. Cora Richards Abbott, an obstetrician, engaged in medical ministry in tandem with her husband.
North American Division Biography Groundbreakers Educators Couples Medical Workers
Malcolm Edwin Abbott was the superintendent of the Seventh-day Adventist Mission in New Guinea when he was taken as a civilian internee during World War II in Rabaul, New Guinea, and subsequently lost his life at the age of 33.
South Pacific Division Biography Died/Imprisoned for Faith Missionaries Couples
José Abella was a pioneer of colporteur ministry in Algeria and the first Spanish missionary to carry out pastoral work in Portugal.
Inter-European Division Biography Groundbreakers Missionaries
William E. Abernathy served the church for 36 years primarily in the roles of institutional management and financial administration.
Benjamin W. Abney was a pioneering African American Seventh-day Adventist minister, missionary, and evangelist. He and his wife and co-laborer, Celia Hart Abney, were the first Black American missionaries sent by the Seventh-day Adventist church to South Africa.
North American Division Biography Groundbreakers Missionaries Couples
Clinton Achenbach was an American missionary who served during the early phases of Adventist work in the Spanish-speaking lands of Peru, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Cuba and the Dominican Republic.
Johnson O. Achilihu was the president of the East Nigeria Conference from 1988 to 1997.
Christian Abraham Ackah was a founding member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Ghana. In addition to his work in literature evangelism, he founded two churches and two schools, and was the first Ghanaian to be ordained a church elder and to serve on a union mission executive committee.
William Brandford Ackah was an Adventist pastor, teacher and evangelist in Ghana.
Dorothy Evans Ackerman taught voice lessons and directed choirs at several Adventist schools (especially Southern Missionary College, now Southern Adventist University).
Eloy Acosta Muñiz was a pastor and evangelist in Puerto Rico and a missionary in the Dominican Republic.
Pastor Jesse P. Acosta, Sr. was a colporteur, minister/evangelist, and leader from the Philippines.
George Adair provided 37 years of sound management in Sanitarium Health Food Company and Sydney Sanitarium and Hospital in the Australasian Union Conference, ensuring the viability of these institutions in both the Depression and the years of World War II.
Reginald “Reg” and Leila Adair served the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Australia, at the General Conference headquarters, and in the Far East, specifically the China Division during the time of the Communist takeover.
Anderson Grant Adams was the 15th treasurer of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.
Cyrus and Nola Adams, born in New Zealand, gave forty-one years of service to the Church in the South Pacific Division. Cyrus was a pastor, evangelist, teacher, missionary, and conference administrator.