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The Adventist work in the territory of today’s Congo-Brazzaville was organized in 1972 as Republic of Congo Attached Mission Station. It was renamed in 2017 as Congo Region, and then officially reorganized in 2021 as a mission by the West-Central Africa Division following the recommendation of the Central African Union Mission. It is one of the five countries that make up the Central African Union Mission, which is a part of the West-Central Africa Division.
West-Central Africa Division Country (Based on SDA membership)
The Cook Islands, formerly known as the Hervey Group, are located in the South Pacific Ocean to the northeast and southeast of American Samoa. Seventh-day Adventist missionaries first arrived in the Cook Islands in 1891 aboard the Pitcairn, calling at Mangaia, Rarotonga, and Aitutaki.
South Pacific Division Cook Islands Country (Based on SDA membership)
The first Adventist pastor to arrive in Costa Rica was Frank Hutchins. He was the first resident worker who pastored the coast of the Central American Caribbean in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. With the support of his wife, Cora, Frank worked as a dentist, colporteur, and pastor.
Inter-American Division Costa Rica Country (Based on SDA membership)
In 1917 the founding of the Musofu Mission and the opening of a school served as a springboard for the Adventist Church penetration of the Congo.
East-Central Africa Division Country (Based on SDA membership)
The Seventh-day Adventist message reached Denmark from the United States in 1872 by means of the Danish monthly "Advent Tidende," which John G. Matteson, a native son of Denmark, had started primarily for the Scandinavian people in America.
Trans-European Division Denmark Country (Based on SDA membership)
In 1901, two Sabbath-keepers from Antigua took up residence in Dominica and raised up a small company of Sabbath believers. Between 1901 and 1975, the Seventh-day Adventist membership crawled from a very small group to 1,089. In 1991, it increased to 3,376.
Inter-American Division Dominica Country (Based on SDA membership)
Egypt was where the Adventist work in the Middle East first began. Around 1877 Italian Adventists in Naples, Italy, sent the French paper "Signes des Temps" to their Italian friends in Alexandria, and corresponded with them about the church’s teachings.
Middle East and North Africa Union Mission Egypt Country (Based on SDA membership)
El Salvador is located on Central America’s Pacific coast. In 1909 El Salvador was the only country in Central America with no Adventist presence. However, plans were made to evangelize the country. In 1911 the Central American Conference president, N. V. Willess, launched a challenge to send a colporteur group to El Salvador since he saw the opportunity to spread the message and develop the field with more people.
Inter-American Division El Salvador Country (Based on SDA membership)
Equatorial Guinea is a mission field of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. It is one of the five missions that make up the Central African Union Mission, which in turn is part of the West-Central Africa Division.
West-Central Africa Division Equatorial Guinea Country (Based on SDA membership)
Erunmu was the first town in which the first missionary of the Seventh-day Adventist Church to Nigeria, David C. Babcock, settled when he came to the country on March 7, 1914.
West-Central Africa Division Country (Based on SDA membership)
The Seventh-day Adventist faith was first brought to the Faroe Islands by Norwegian born O. J. Rost Olsen in 1893.
Trans-European Division Faeroe Islands Country (Based on SDA membership)
Fiji consists of approximately 330 islands in the mid-South Pacific Ocean, the largest being Viti Levu and Vanua Levu.
South Pacific Division Fiji Country (Based on SDA membership)
French Polynesia consists of approximately 130 islands scattered in the central South Pacific Ocean. The main groups are the Marquesas Islands, Tuamotu Archipelago, the Gambier Islands, the Tubuai Islands, and the Society Islands.
South Pacific Division French Polynesia Country (Based on SDA membership)
Gabon is a mission field of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Gabon Mission is one of the five missions that make up the Central African Union Mission
West-Central Africa Division Gabon Country (Based on SDA membership)
Eastern Orthodox Georgia has been deeply influenced by Christianity in culture, history, and worldview. Adventist mission came into it a century and more ago, on the heels of older Protestant missions.
Euro-Asia Division Georgia Country (Based on SDA membership)
Ghana, officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa, bordered by the Gulf of Guinea, Cote D'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) to the west, Burkina Faso to the north, and Togo to the east. The origins of the Adventist presence in Ghana can be traced to literary evangelism back in the 1860s.
West-Central Africa Division Ghana Country (Based on SDA membership)
The Adventist message was originally brought to Greenland by fishermen from the Faroe Islands. In 1953 an Adventist named Andreas Nielsen from Denmark began evangelism in Greenland.
Trans-European Division Greenland Country (Based on SDA membership)
The first Seventh-day Adventist missionaries arrived in Grenada in 1892, and the Seventh-day Adventist Church has become the largest Protestant denomination in the island country.
Inter-American Division Grenada Country (Based on SDA membership)
Guatemala, also known as the Land of Eternal Spring for its varied and almost permanent year-round flora, is located at the top of the Central American isthmus.
Inter-American Division Guatemala Country (Based on SDA membership)
Guyana (formerly British Guiana) is a country on the northern coastline of South America bordering the Atlantic Ocean.
Inter-American Division Guyana Country (Based on SDA membership)