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Zimbabwe (officially Republic of Zimbabwe) is one of the countries that constitute the territory of the Southern Africa-Indian Ocean Division (SID) of Seventh-day Adventists.
Southern Africa-Indian Ocean Division Zimbabwe Country (Based on SDA membership)
Reunion Island is located in the south-western part of the Indian Ocean. The first Adventists came to the island in 1931.
Southern Africa-Indian Ocean Division Reunion Country (Based on SDA membership)
Romania is a European country, and a member of the European Union, situated in the southeast of central Europe. It has an area of 238,391 square kilometers and a population of 22,170,000 as of 2019. The country is bounded by the Republic of Moldova and the Black Sea to the east, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the northwest, Serbia to the southwest, and Bulgaria to the south. The territory is almost evenly divided between mountains, hills, and plains, spread symmetrically from the Carpathian Mountains, with elevations of more than 2,500 meters. One of the main European rivers, the Danube, travels some 1,075 kilometers through or along Romanian territory. The climate is temperate continental.
Inter-European Division Romania Country (Based on SDA membership)
Russia is a country in Eastern Europe and Northern Asia, which for most of the twentieth century was part of the communist Soviet Union. Today, aside from other Christians, the Seventh-day Adventist Church has a small representation in the country.
Rwanda is a republic in east-central Africa. It is one of the countries that comprise the East-Central Africa Division of Seventh-day Adventists.
East-Central Africa Division Rwanda Country (Based on SDA membership)
The Adventist message reached the small Caribbean island of Saba as early as 1892.
The territory of the Sabah Mission encompasses the Malaysian state of Sabah and the Malaysian Federal Territory of Labuan.
Southern Asia-Pacific Division Country (Based on SDA membership)
Adventism arrived in Saint Kitts and Nevis in late 1888 when William Arnold, an Adventist literature evangelist, sailed to the islands from the United States.
Inter-American Division Saint Kitts and Nevis Country (Based on SDA membership)
Western Samoa, as distinct from American Samoa, was a German protectorate until the outbreak of World War I when New Zealand occupied the group. New Zealand continued to administer the islands as a trust territory until 1962, when the country became independent. In 1997 the word “Western” was dropped from its name. It is a Polynesian nation in the South Pacific Ocean consisting of two main islands, Savai’i and Upolu. Seventh-day Adventists hold approximately 5 percent of the population.
South Pacific Division Samoa Country (Based on SDA membership)
One approach for the Seventh-day Adventist Church to connect with the leadership and people of Saudi Arabia has been through the promotion of temperance, an area where the Adventists and Muslims have much in common. The International Commission for the Prevention of Alcoholism was set up in 1952, with King Saud Abdul Aziz of Saudi Arabia as one of five honorary world presidents. As the first worker to visit the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Wadie Farag, assistant temperance director of the Middle East Division, succeeded in getting an interview with King Saud in his palace in Riyadh. Visits were later made to the King by W. A. Scharffenberg (executive secretary of the International Temperance Association of Seventh-day Adventists), and again in 1962 by Scharffenberg and Anees Haddad (temperance director of the Middle East Division). This was later followed by other initiatives and collaborative programs.
Middle East and North Africa Union Mission Saudi Arabia Country (Based on SDA membership)
The Seventh-day Adventist missionary work started in the country in 1951 when the first missionaries, Robert Erdmann and his family, came to settle in Senegal.
West-Central Africa Division Senegal Country (Based on SDA membership)
Sint Eustatius is an island in the northern Leeward Islands southeast of the Virgin Islands. The Adventist message reached the island in 1920 through the efforts of Clifton Garfield van Putten and his wife, Maude.
The Adventist message reached the island in 1940. Adventist churches on the French side (Saint-Martin) are in the territory of French Antilles-Guiana Union Conference, and those on the Dutch side (Sint Maarten) are in the territory of Caribbean Union Conference
Inter-American Division Saint Martin Country (Based on SDA membership)
Adventists became active in Slovakia at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. The first missionaries from Germany and Hungary worked in the then Prešpork (today’s Bratislava), Košice, as well as the Liptov region in central Slovakia. The first Adventist churches were formed in the period of 1911‒1919.
Inter-European Division Slovakia Country (Based on SDA membership)
The Solomon Islands are a double chain of volcanic islands and coral atolls in the southwest of the Pacific Ocean.
South Pacific Division Solomon Islands Country (Based on SDA membership)
The Republic of South Africa is one of the countries that constitute the territory of the Southern Africa-Indian Ocean Division of Seventh-day Adventists.
Southern Africa-Indian Ocean Division South Africa Country (Based on SDA membership)
The history of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in South Sudan goes back as far as 1892 when the General Conference voted to send a missionary to Sudan. However, at the time Sudan was partitioned between the Christian denominations that entered the country ahead of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. This early attempt failed because there was no space left to be allocated to the Adventist Church. The second attempt to enter Sudan was during the leadership of Neil C. Wilson when he was president of the Nile Union Mission. According to the magazine the Columbia Union Visitor, in 1950 Neil C. Wilson “was elected President of the Nile Union Mission, comprising Egypt, Sudan, Aden, and the Arabian Peninsula.”
East-Central Africa Division South Sudan Country (Based on SDA membership)
The Adventist presence in St. Helena Island began officially in 1941 when Adventist worker P. F. Fouche from South Africa arrived on the island.
Southern Africa-Indian Ocean Division Saint Helena Country (Based on SDA membership)
The plan of entering Sudan to establish the Adventist message took place as early as the 1892 General Conference meetings when Church leaders voted to send a missionary there. However, Sudan remained an unentered territory for Adventism for many years. The first Adventist missionaries were allowed to enter Sudan in 1953, and the first indigenous Sudanese was baptized in 1961.
Middle East and North Africa Union Mission Sudan Country (Based on SDA membership)
The Sultanate of Oman is an independent monarchy on the southeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula.
Middle East and North Africa Union Mission Oman Country (Based on SDA membership)