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José Turcílio was a canvasser and publishing leader in Brazil.
John W. Turner gave nearly 40 years of ministry to the Seventh-day Adventist church, most of them as a conference president. He led five local conferences and concluded his service with a decade as president of the Southwestern Union Conference.
Lionel Harold Turner was an educator at various academies and spent 16 years at Avondale College Mathematics and English departments.
William Gordon Turner was an Adventist pastor and administrator who held numerous administrative positions in the Seventh-day Adventist Church. He served as president of the Australasian Division based in Sydney, and also a vice president of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists based in Washington, D.C.
Robert and Emily Tutty were pioneering missionaries in Dovele (Solomon Islands), Bougainville, and the Admiralty Islands (New Guinea). He was the first Seventh-day Adventist missionary to New Guinea.
South Pacific Division Biography Groundbreakers Missionaries Couples
Hendrik Twijnstra was a pioneer Seventh-day Adventist pastor and leader in the Netherlands East Indies (now Indonesia).
Trans-European Division Netherlands Biography Groundbreakers Missionaries
Ethel Louise Twing was an Adventist missionary and a registered nurse who devoted her entire life to serving the continent of Africa.
East-Central Africa Division Biography Missionaries Medical Workers Women Educators
James Arthur Twing was an Adventist medical missionary and pioneering flying doctor in Tanzania. He established and served 22 dispensaries across the country and personally invested in purchasing an airplane to improve access to remote medical facilities. Tragically, his life was cut short at age 51 in an aircraft accident, limiting his medical service in Tanzania to two years, from 1970 to 1972.
East-Central Africa Division Biography Groundbreakers Missionaries Medical Workers Died/Imprisoned for Faith
Friday Okoro Ubani was a pastor and administrator in Nigeria.
Otto Uebersax served in the Seventh-day Adventist pastoral ministry in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, and Israel.
Carl Ulrich, an Adventist minister, held a number of significant managerial and leadership positions within the denomination in Australia over a timespan of almost forty years.
Laura Louisa Lee Ulrich Smith was a nurse, educator, and promoter of the Adventist health message and lifestyle.
T. Edgar Unruh, an educator and conference president, played a critical role in facilitating historic consultations between Seventh-day Adventist and American evangelical leaders during the 1950s.
Walter Charles Utt, influential Adventist historian, taught for thirty-four years at Pacific Union College (PUC) and chaired the department of history and social studies for all but three of those years.
Stuart Uttley worked in his early years of ministry in public evangelism, and the later years in local conference and union conference administration.
Maimu Väli (Vali or Vaeli) served as the Estonian Conference treasurer for 44 years (1948-1992) and secretary-treasurer for 20 of those years (1969-1989). She was also a translator and lyricist of hymns.
José Augusto Vallado was an evangelist canvasser in Brazil.
Jacob Van de Groep was a pioneering literature evangelist Southeast Asia. He also worked in Australia for a short time.
South Pacific Division Biography Groundbreakers Missionaries
Elam Van Deusen was a pioneering Adventist minister who, with his missionary wife, Mary, and young daughter, labored in the eastern Caribbean from the mid-1890s into the first two decades of the 20th century.
Inter-American Division Biography Groundbreakers Missionaries
George Jacob Van Druten was one of the first South Africans who came to know about the Seventh-day Adventist Church through William Hunt.
Southern Africa-Indian Ocean Division Biography Groundbreakers