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Aston George Tai was a noted Adventist businessman and philanthropist in Jamaica.
Asa O. Tait was an editor of the evangelistic periodical "Signs of the Times" for more than three decades.
Jahja Benyamin Talaa was a pastor and church administrator in Indonesia.
Maria Talvik worked for 26 years as the cafeteria chef at UNASP-SP and rendered a notable and positive influence over hundreds of students. In her honor, today the cafeteria at UNASP-SP is called “Maria Talvik Restaurant.”
Pacific Islanders Tanabose Viviriti Lukukana and Leah Barighaza served the Church at various capacities.
Francisco Tancara was a chieftain and native Bolivian who became an Adventist and worked, by vocation, as a missionary and educator. Although illiterate, he used every means available so schools could be established in the villages under his management and so his people could become literate.
Eugenio Tangunan was an evangelist, pastor, and church leader in the Philippines.
Mary Elizabeth Tank was a Sabbath School and Missionary Volunteers director in Western Australia and New South Wales Conferences, and later a Bible instructor.
Dr. Joeli Taoi, commonly called “Dokta belong mifala” by the people of Vanuatu, was a missionary doctor in the Pacific Islands from 1958 to 1995. He was especially well known as a pioneer missionary doctor to Aore in New Hebrides (1958–1976).
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Albert Floyd Tarr served the Seventh-day Adventist Church as an editor and administrator, while his wife Edna May served as an editor and musician in the South African Division, Southern Asia Division, Northern Europe Division, and later at the General Conference.
Born in the bush of South New Georgia, Solomon Islands to animist parents, Pastor Tasa Hivana became a teacher and pastor of the Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) Church.
Shuichi Tatsuguchi’s life was one of significant service to Adventist medical evangelism in the United States and Japan. From the 1890s through the 1930s, Tatsuguchi’s commitment to Adventism was apparent in both his personal life and in his work in Hiroshima, where his faith increasingly placed him—and his family—at odds with Japanese authorities in the decades leading into the Asia-Pacific War. “[O]ne of the first Japanese” to covert to Adventism, Tatsuguchi and his family became key figures in Adventist communities on both sides of the Pacific.
Friedrich Herman Taube was a missionary teacher from Germany, who emigrated to Brazil. He served the Adventist Church for 18 years.
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.
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John Ives Tay was a carpenter, machinist, and inventor. Hannah Tay was a seamstress. Together they served as pioneer Adventist missionaries across the Pacific Ocean.
North American Division Biography Groundbreakers Missionaries Died/Imprisoned for Faith
Little was known about Timothy or Timotheus Tay (surname pinyin Zheng, name in Chinese 鄭提摩太, and Hokkianese Romanization Teh Hong Siang). But he had made significant contributions to the early days of the Adventist message in China, Singapore, and Malaysia.
Charles O. Taylor, a pioneer preacher in upstate New York, is best known as the first minister to disseminate the Seventh-day Adventist message in the Deep South of the United States.
Charles Richard Taylor was a pastor, evangelist, missionary, educator and church administrator at the division and General Conference levels.
Daniel T. Taylor, Advent Christian preacher, historian, and hymn writer, published what has been called “the first Adventist census” in 1860.