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Dr. Charlotte (Lottie) Isbell Blake served the church as a pioneering physician, hospital administrator, medical missionary, and teacher. She is distinguished as the first African-American Seventh-day Adventist to become a licensed physician.
North American Division Biography Groundbreakers Medical Workers Women
James “Pat” Arthur Bowen Blanch, ministered to the indigenous people of Australia at Mona Mona, in North New South Wales, and later at Kuranda.
Frank L. Bland was a pastor-evangelist and administrator who served as a conference treasurer, conference president, and General Conference vice president.
Louis H. Bland, pastor and administrator, was the first president of the Northeastern Conference.
William Thomas Bland was the chief administrator of several Seventh-day Adventist academies and colleges.
Claude Lockyer Blandford was a pastor, administrator, and pioneering missionary to China.
Frances L. Bliss was a longtime educator who spent most of her professional career at Oakwood College, teaching there for more than thirty years.
Sylvester Bliss was editor of the Millerite periodical Signs of the Times, later Advent Herald, and an author noted especially for works countering criticisms from clerics and academia.
Godofredo Block was one of the first ordained Adventist ministers in Argentina and an influential pastor and evangelist, especially among the German communities in the country.
Harold Murray Blunden was a missionary to China, church administrator, including General Field secretary and Home Missions secretary for the Asiatic Division.
Albert Bodenmann was a missionary builder in Cameroon, pioneer missionary in Chad, and missionary administrator.
Eric Boehm was a Seventh-day Adventist pastor, missionary and church administrator. He was the first president of the Bismarck Solomons Union Mission based in Rabaul, Mandated territory of New Guinea.
South Pacific Division Biography Missionaries Groundbreakers Couples
John Henry and Augusta Boehm were educational pioneers in Brazil.
Leonid Bogdanow was a canvasser, pastor, and conference-level director in the South Brazil Union.
Walter Boger’s contribution had great significance for the Adventist Church in Brazil, and his performance in administrative positions was especially important to the Rio Grande do Sul and Paraná Conferences and to the Adventist radio program Voice of Prophecy. He also made a significant contribution to education as director of both UNASP campuses São Paulo and Engenheiro Coelho.
Joseph Ngussa Bohole was a renowned literature evangelist and pastor who played a key role in bringing many souls to Christ across Tanzania.
Wattafeni Boiori (‘Watti’) was a Papuan who was baptized as one of the first Seventh-day Adventists in Papua. He spent his life working for the church and was a pioneer missionary in the Papuan Gulf.
Ana Martha Bökenkamp, teacher and chef, was born in 1895 in the city of Bielefeld, Germany.
Geraldo Bökenkamp made an important contribution to the Seventh-day Adventist Church as an administrator of the Brazil Food Factory (Superbom), manager of the Global Food Services, and in the auditing department of the South American Division.
Luis A. Bolívar was one of the most outstanding of the early Adventist workers along with Gilberto Bustamante, Tirso and Jorge Escandón, and Samuel Camacho. He distinguished himself as a preacher, administrator, and singer. Like Bustamante, he used his marvelous voice in ministry and evangelism.