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Neil Ramon Thrasher was a missionary doctor and medical director. He was a surgeon, and a certified specialist in radiology who served with his wife, Lucille Bertha (Daniel), in North America, Africa, and in several countries in the Far Eastern Division.
Alan Thrift, a singer and conductor, and his wife Yvonne Zanotti Thrift, a pianist, singer, and conductor, were associated with the music program at Australasian Missionary College (AMC), later Avondale College of Higher Education (Avondale), for over forty years.
Lyndon and Grace Thrift served in the Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, and Australia.
Richard Alfred Roy Thrift, an Adventist minister and administrator, and is wife, Ethel Thrift, a department secretary, served the Church in Australia, India, and Papua.
John Thurber sang second tenor in the Voice of Prophecy King’s Heralds quartet during the 1960s, served as a teacher, choral director, pastor, and conference president, and was noted for innovation as a conference and union youth leader.
William Henry Thurston was a North American administrator, missionary, and literature evangelist, and one of the first missionaries to arrive in Brazil at the end of the nineteenth century.
South American Division Biography Groundbreakers Missionaries
While the conversion and early missionary efforts of Tidbury are not as well known in Adventist historiography, he was an early self-supporting educator who contributed in a significant way to the early founding of Adventist missionary work in Hong Kong and Canton, China. Such efforts were often collaborative, self-supporting, and worked under the aegis of the first official missionaries.
Charles Herman Tidwell, Jr., was a teacher and educational administrator for the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the United States, Canada, and Hong Kong.
An evangelist and administrator in France and Switzerland, Léon-Paul Tièche was one of the first leaders of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the European French speaking countries.
Maurice Tièche was an Adventist educator, pastor, author, and broadcaster from France.
Paul Tièche was evangelist, pastor, teacher, and administrator in France and the French part of Switzerland in the 1900s.
Allan and Ruth Tilley both graduated from the Sydney Sanitarium and Hospital as nurses.
Klaas Tilstra, an Adventist administrator and missionary, was born in 1897 in the Dutch province of Friesland (Frisia).
Klaas Tilstra served as pastor, evangelist, and conference and union president in Indonesia, as union president in the Netherlands, and as educator and builder in New Guinea.
Tin Tun Shin was a leader of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Myanmar.
Charles Tinworth was an Adventist missionary and Sanitarium Health Food (SHF) Company Manager.
Tobias Tobiassen became an Adventist in his 40s when he began his preaching ministry. He was one of the most successful Seventh-day Adventist preachers in Denmark and Norway of his time, and later also added administrative responsibilities to his service for the church. Many were led to the Savior through his ministry.
Athal Tolhurst was born in Tonga of missionary parents. He was a pastor, evangelist and administrator who was for a time a Union President, Secretary of the South Pacific Division and Under-Secretary of the General Conference. He was married to Linley (Willis), and together they served the Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) Church for 45 years.
Hubert Tolhurst was an early Adventist missionary to Tonga, teacher, pastor, administrator, and poet.
South Pacific Division Biography Groundbreakers Missionaries Died/Imprisoned for Faith
Tonga was a charter member and deacon of the Titikaveka church, Cook Islands.