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Stephen T. Belden, a brother-in-law of Adventist co-founder Ellen G. White, was a skilled tradesman who gave needed support to her ministry, particularly during its earliest years and during her sojourn in Australia in the 1890s.
Charles Bell was a versatile teacher, minister, and director of the Advent Bible School for the Australasian Union Conference. Charles de Vere Bell, known as Vere, was born on April 24, 1868, in the market town of Uppingham in Rutland County, England, to Thomas and Louisa Margaret (Harding) Bell. He migrated to Australia and settled in Queensland where he married twenty-year-old Elizabeth Margaret Orchard in 1900.
As the founding teacher of the denomination’s first official sponsored school, Goodloe Harper Bell is considered by some historians as the “founder” of the educational work of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
George Belleau served in Canada, Brazil, and the United States as a pastor, evangelist, union and local departmental director, and conference president.
José Bellesi Filho, pastor and administrator, was born February 12, 1921, in the city of Fernando Prestes, state of São Paulo, Brazil.
Thomas Greene Belton was a missionary to Kenya.
Oliver S. Beltz was among the most influential musicians in the Seventh-day Adventist Church during the twentieth century.
Guilherme Belz (Wilhelm, in German), one of the first converts to Adventism in Brazil, was born in 1835 in the province of Pomerania, currently belonging to Germany.
Rodolpho Wagner Belz was a pastor, evangelist, teacher, and church administrator.
Urbanus Bender was a minister, conference president, and educator in the United States, the West Indies, and Africa.
Bernard Wilfred Benn dedicated more than fifty years of his life to Christian education as a teacher, principal, professor, department chair, and college president.
Harry Benson served for over 35 years as a minister and missionary teacher in Japan and Korea. He was the longest serving expatriate missionary in the Far Eastern Division during the pre-Second World War years.
Isaac Ackah Benson was an Adventist minister and the first Ghanaian national personal ministry director.
Roy Benton served the church in several leadership capacities, including nearly 20 years in the Southwestern Union Conference as a local conference president and then president of the union.
LeRoy Arthur Benzinger, Jr. was a teacher, educator, missionary, and school manager and administrator.
Henrique Berg was a pastor, missionary, and administrator in South America.
Albert Berger, canvasser and missionary, was born in Gutenberg, Germany, on November 5, 1865.
Theophilo is considered one of the Seventh-day Adventist pioneers in the Brazilian states of Pernambuco and Bahia.
William H. Bergherm was an Adventist evangelist, pastor, and administrator. He was the second Adventist minister to become a commissioned chaplain in the United States Army during World War II.
Esther Bergman was a leading medical missionary nurse and educator in the United States and in Ethiopia, where she made a critical contribution to the early development of Adventist mission.