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David Paul Rema was an Adventist teacher, pastor, evangelist, and administrator from Bangladesh.
Sine Renlev was Denmark’s first female Seventh-day Adventist preacher. With her pleasant personality, her guitar, and her beautiful singing voice, she drew large numbers to her Bible lectures in public halls, tents, or the homes of interested people. Having become a Seventh-day Adventist in 1879, she almost immediately set out to preach the present truth, and no one could stop her from sharing her newfound faith.
Trans-European Division Denmark Biography Groundbreakers Women
Clarence Emerson Rentfro was a pastor, teacher, canvasser, and missionary in South America.
Mary Loizette Haskell Rentfro was a canvasser, missionary, and nurse in the United States, Portugal, and Brazil.
Ret Chol Jock was the first Sudanese Adventist Mission director, from 1976 to 1978.
Jules Rey was a Swiss Adventist evangelist and administrator who worked in France, Switzerland, and North Africa during the first sixty years of the twentieth century.
Arnold Reye was a long time Adventist educator in Australia. From 1988 to 1996, he was the education director of the Trans-Tasman Union Conference (TTUC), the territory of which encompassed both the two conferences in New Zealand and another four in eastern and northern Australia.
Raimund and Reubena Reye worked as missionaries among the Samoan people in Samoa in the 1920s through the 1940s. Raimund Reye was the principal of the West Australian Missionary College for 14 years in the 1950s and 1960s.
Maximo Bautista Delos Reyes was an Adventist church planter, minister, philanthropist, and leader from the Philippines.
Louis B. Reynolds was a pastor, editor of Message magazine, associate Sabbath School director and then field secretary at the General Conference, and an historian of the African American Adventist experience.
David Rhys Hall was an outstanding researcher, educator, and educational administrator who served in the South American, Inter-American, and North American divisions. He was interested in earth sciences and a collaborator with Adventist institutions in defending creationism.
Pedro Brito Ribeiro was one of the major Portuguese pioneers in Seventh-day Adventism.
Herbert Panmure Ribton was a physician and the first known Adventist missionary to enter the Muslim areas of the world. His dedicated and impressive service was very short, and in the end, he paid the ultimate price.
Middle East and North Africa Union Mission Biography Groundbreakers Missionaries Died/Imprisoned for Faith
Jesse Rice and his wife, Cora, were missionaries to Rarotonga.
M. Leslie Rice served as president of local and union conferences for 36 of his 40 years of ministry.
Clarence Theodore Richards, better known as C. T. Richards, was a preacher and professor of religion who worked for more than fifty years in Adventist education and ministry. For most of his career he taught and served in various capacities at Oakwood College in Huntsville, Alabama.
Eulalia Richards, M.D., was a pioneering medical doctor who contributed to the health ministry of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Australia and beyond as a public speaker and writer on medical, temperance, and well-being issues particularly to do with women’s and children’s health.
South Pacific Division Biography Groundbreakers Medical Workers Women
Halbert M. J. Richards was a pastor-evangelist and president of four conferences in the North American Division. Though limited by health difficulties during his final decades of labor, Richards’ highly-varied service to the church spanned nearly 65 years.
Jane Richards was a former spiritualist medium and later an early Review worker who served as a compositor, copyist, proofreader, editor, and poet.
William Richards was an evangelist and church administrator in a number of conferences in Australia and New Zealand. At the time of his retirement he was the president of the Trans-Tasman Union Conference.