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Elizaphan Bwirima Wanjara served as an Adventist teacher, pastor, and administrator in Tanzania. He emerged as one of the early indigenous leaders of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Tanzania during the transition from colonial administration to national leadership following independence in 1961.
Gustav Adolph Wantzlick was a pastor and church administrator. Wantzlick and his wife, Margaret, were missionaries to the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia).
Arthur Audley Ward was a pastor and church administrator who contributed to Adventist mission in the West Indies and in America.
For nearly sixty years, Eric Calvin Ward served the Seventh-day Adventist Church as a renowned pastor, evangelist, educator, church builder, and administrator.
Frederick Ward served the Seventh-day Adventist Church as a printer, teacher, and minister. He and his wife, Myrtle Lewis Marrett, are best remembered for their extended service on Pitcairn Island.
Henry Dana Ward, a Harvard-educated Episcopalian clergyman, authored numerous works on biblical prophecy and became a leading figure in the Millerite movement.
Ellsworth E. Wareham, pioneering cardiothoracic surgeon and co-founder of the Loma Linda University Overseas Heart Surgery Team, also became widely known during the final 15 years of his life for the vigorous health that made him an exemplar of the Loma Linda, California, region in “The Blue Zones” longevity study.
North American Division Biography Groundbreakers Medical Workers
Ernest Roy Warland was a missionary to Kenya and founder principal of Kamagambo School.
East-Central Africa Division Biography Educators Groundbreakers Missionaries
Bertha E. Warner (née Milne) was a pioneer missionary teacher to Kenya. She moved to Nyanchwa, Kenya in January 1925 to establish the educational program for girls’ education.
East-Central Africa Division Biography Educators Groundbreakers Missionaries Women
For more than four decades Adell Warren, Sr., served the Seventh-day Adventist Church as the business manager of Oakwood College in Huntsville, Alabama, and Riverside Sanitarium in Nashville, Tennessee.
Luther Willis Warren, evangelist and youth ministries innovator, influenced the lives of thousands of young people in schools and churches where he conducted revivals. He created organizations such as the Sunshine Bands, Junior and Senior Missionary Volunteer societies, church schools, and orphanages.
Judson S. Washburn was an evangelist, musician, and pastor who was deeply connected by pedigree with the church’s leading pioneers.
Alemu Wassihun was an Ethiopian Seventh-day Adventist evangelist and pastor who served for decades in the Debre Tabor area and other parts of what is now the Northwest Ethiopia Field.
Albert Watson was one of the pre-war (First World War) missionaries pioneering the mission station at Rusinga Island on Lake Victoria, Western Kenya. He worked in Kenya for a total of 17 years as a missionary.
Trans-European Division Biography Groundbreakers Missionaries
Charles Henry Watson was a businessman who became a Seventh-day Adventist pastor. Quickly demonstrating an aptitude for management and leadership, he was ordained within a year of graduating from the Australasian Missionary College, and elected as a conference president very shortly thereafter. He was later elected as the president of the Australasian Union Conference and is to this date the only Australian to be elected as the president of the General Conference.
Donald Henry Watson was a missionary to Pitcairn Island and worked for the Adventist church in Australia and New Zealand.
Joseph and Mabel Watson were pioneer missionaries to Africa.
North American Division Biography Groundbreakers Missionaries Couples
Kathleen Joyce, noted contralto singer, received high praise from music critics in Europe and the United States.
Dorothy Eaton Watts was an Adventist educator, author, and women’s ministries leader who founded Sunshine Home, the first Seventh-day Adventist orphanage in southern India.
General Conference Biography Educators Groundbreakers Women Missionaries
Horace Watts was a career length pastor, youth leader and missionary for the Seventh-day Adventist Church, noted for being very much a people person.