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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.
South Pacific Division Biography Groundbreakers Missionaries Died/Imprisoned for Faith Couples
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.
George Benjamin Taylor was a pastor, educator, administrator, and missionary to Brazil.
William and Mary Taylor were pioneering missionaries on the island of Ambrym, New Hebrides. Their service was interrupted by a serious volcanic eruption on the island in 1929.
South Pacific Division Biography Groundbreakers Missionaries Couples
Diran Tcharakian was a poet, artist, author, university professor, and convinced atheist before he became a Seventh-day Adventist minister and modern-day Paul in Turkey’s Ottoman Empire. Following in the steps of Adventist pioneers Theodore Anthony and Zadour Baharian, he became known as “the new apostle” to the interior of Asia Minor, where in the end he sacrificed his life for the Adventist cause.
Middle East and North Africa Union Mission Biography Educators Missionaries Died/Imprisoned for Faith
Born in England, George Teasdale lived for 98 years, serving the Seventh-day Adventist Church as a missionary, pastor, administrator, teacher, college principal, and business manager.
Wilma and Jack Tegler were American missionary educators to Africa, who spent much of their missionary years in Kenya. They served at the Maxwell School in Nairobi and also at the Kamagambo Training School in south-western Kenya.
East-Central Africa Division Biography Educators Missionaries Couples
Johana araap Telo was a pioneer Kipsigis Seventh-day Adventist, evangelist, and teacher. Johana araap Telo was born about the year 1900 at Sosiot in Kericho in Western Kenya.
East-Central Africa Division Biography Educators Groundbreakers
Henry Tempest played a major role in the early days of transforming a backyard enterprise into what is now Sanitarium, a multimillion-dollar international company.
Ruth Janetta Temple, M.D., was the first Black graduate from what is today the Loma Linda University School of Medicine, the first Black female physician licensed to practice in the state of California, and a lifelong public health crusader.
North American Division Biography Groundbreakers Medical Workers Women
George C. Tenney was an American minister, educator, and author who served as editor of the Bible Echo and Signs of the Times in Australia from 1888 to 1892, and, after returning to the United States, filled editorial roles with the Review and Herald and other periodicals.
John Ellis Tenney was a professor at Battle Creek College and principal of Southern Training School (forerunner of Southern Adventist University).