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Edgar Brooks was an editor, pastor, and teacher of English origin who served in England, Peru, and Argentina.
Knud Brorson (sometimes spelled: Brorsen) helped pioneer the Adventist mission work in Denmark and Norway together with John G. Matteson. Brorson was the first Adventist missionary to work among the Sami people in Norway.
Trans-European Division Biography Groundbreakers Missionaries
Pedro Mariano Brouchy was a missionary nurse, pastor, evangelist, and Adventist administrator. He served as a missionary in northern Argentina and as the president of several fields in the former Austral Union Conference (Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay).
John Lewis Brown was an Adventist pastor, missionary in three continents, pioneer in El Salvador and the Amazon region of Brazil, diffuser of Adventist publications and church administrator.
Robert Henry Brown served the Seventh-day Adventist Church as a professor of physics, college president, and Geoscience Research Institute (GRI) director. His views on creationism, particularly those related to the age of the earth, influenced church administrators and educators, especially from the 1950s to the 1990s.
Robert Brown served as secretary and treasurer in the Virginia and District of Columbia conferences prior to overseas mission service in China for six years. He returned to the United States as business manager of the denominational sanitariums in Boulder and Denver, Colorado.
Walton John Brown was the son of missionaries, a pastor, educator, writer, musician, and longtime educational manager, and a missionary in North America, South America and Central America.
Lambert Wellington Browne was a pioneer missionary to Sierra Leone.
Sidney Brownsberger was an Adventist educator and administrator. He played a significant role during the early development of Battle Creek College (Andrews University) and Healdsburg College (Pacific Union College). He was considered a “pioneer” in the development of Adventist education.
John A. Brunson was a prominent Southern Baptist minister who accepted Seventh-day Adventism in 1894, rapidly garnered wide acclaim in Adventist circles as a gospel revivalist and Bible teacher, but then returned to the Baptist ministry in 1904. Sophia Brunson preceded her husband in making a public commitment to Adventism. She became a physician who gained recognition throughout the American South for her speaking and writing on health and temperance.
Geneva Bryan, a teacher and nurse, was the first black woman to serve as a General Conference departmental officer.
Franklin Henry Bryant was the first African American Seventh-day Adventist to author a book and the first African American to earn a law degree from the University of Colorado.
William and Rosa Buckner were missionaries in the South Pacific.
Wako Orisa Budicha was an Adventist Bible worker and church elder who contributed to the establishment and growth of the Adventist church in Tula and other places in Ethiopia.
Andrea Bukombi and his wife, Joyce Muhindo, served as home missionaries and teachers in Uganda. Andrea Bukombi was also an evangelist and pastor of the Seventh-day Adventist Church under the Rwenzori Mission Station of Uganda Field.
East-Central Africa Division Biography Educators Missionaries Couples
Brian S. Bull was a Seventh-day Adventist physician, educator, research scientist, inventor, administrator, and philanthropist, who worked during most of his professional career for Loma Linda University (LLU) in Southern California.
Taylor Bunch served as a minister and teacher for almost fifty years, including as president of the Southern Oregon, Southern Idaho, and Michigan Conferences. He became a well-known author of religious articles and books.
Pauliasi Bunoa was an early Fijian convert from the Methodist Church who served the Adventist Church through translating and ministry among his people in the late 1800s and first decades of the 1900s until his death in 1918.
John Allen Burden, the co-founder of Loma Linda University and administrator of several sanitariums, wholeheartedly devoted his untiring and self-denying labor to establish an institution where Seventh-day Adventist youth could be educated to become medical missionaries. He had an enthusiastic and unwavering faith in the cause he loved.
Clifford Leslie Burdick, a Seventh-day Adventist consulting geologist, was an outspoken defender of young earth creationism and involved in the search for Noah’s Ark.