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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.
During his lengthy career as an editor and author, Calvin P. Bollman was connected with all three of the major Seventh-day Adventist publishing associations then operating in North America and helped edit several leading periodicals, including Signs of the Times, Review and Herald, and Liberty. He also contributed in multiple ways to the early development of denominational institutions in the American South.
Frank Starr Bond and his brother Walter were the first two missionaries who brought the Adventist message to Spain.
Inter-European Division Biography Groundbreakers Missionaries
Walter Bond was one of the first Adventist missionaries to Spain.
North American Division Biography Died/Imprisoned for Faith Groundbreakers Missionaries
Clarissa “Clara” Bonfoey was a close friend of and housekeeper for James and Ellen White for about eight years.
Charles Ronald Bonney, whose service to the Seventh-day Adventist Church began in his native British Isles, extended to the Indian subcontinent, and concluded in the United States, distinguished himself as a teacher, pastor, radio speaker, Voice of Prophecy director, and secretary of Southern Asia Division as it was in 1962-- India, Burma, Ceylon (Sri Lanka), Pakistan (Pakistan-Bangladesh), Nepal and Bhutan.
Arna Bontemps was a key figure in America’s Harlem Renaissance literary movement of the 1920s.
Ernest Sheldon Booth played an important role in the establishment of biology as an academic discipline in Seventh-day Adventist colleges and universities. He presided over the establishment of the first Adventist graduate program in biology and founded the Rosario Beach Marine Laboratory operated by Walla Walla University.
Inez Booth was the first full-time music teacher at Oakwood College (now a university) and her 44 years of teaching there is a record in service at one school unequaled by any other music teacher at an Adventist college or university.
North American Division Biography Educators Groundbreakers Women
Robert Boothby was an Adventist pastor and evangelist. His career as an evangelist was characterized by largescale public meetings, numerous baptisms, and the organization of new churches.
Carlos Magalhães Borda contributed to the Adventist Church as an administrator in educational institutions, union conferences, and in the Brazilian Publishing House.
Lou Borgas was a mission superintendent and sawmill manager who worked together with his wife, Ruth Kate (Giblett), mostly at the Mona Mona Aboriginal Mission in North Queensland, Australia in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s.
João Bork, administrator, teacher, and librarian, was born October 28, 1911, in the city of Oslowo, currently in Poland.
Paulo Franz Bork, pastor and archaeologist, was born January 8, 1924, in the city of Cristina, state of Minas Gerais, Brazil.