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Not very much has been recorded about the earliest beginnings of the Adventist work in Syria. It is reported that in 1893 four people became Seventh-day Adventists in Aleppo during a visit there by Zadour G. Baharian, the pioneer Adventist worker in Turkey. However, it was decades later when regular work was established in the present boundaries of Syria.
Middle East and North Africa Union Mission Syria Country (Based on SDA membership)
During the 1930s, the exiled German Adventists further organized the first Adventist congregation. The Russian Adventists appeared in Tajikistan in 1931. The pioneers included the families of Pavel Zhukov (born in 1905) and Vasiliy Borisov (born in 1896), who were exiled from Transcaucasia. They were followed by other exiled Adventists.
Euro-Asia Division Tajikistan Country (Based on SDA membership)
The work of the SDA Church in Tanzania is organized under two unions, Northern Tanzania Union Conference with headquarters in Arusha, and Southern Tanzania Union Mission with headquarters in Dar es Salaam.
East-Central Africa Division Tanzania Country (Based on SDA membership)
Known as “Asia’s newest nation” and the first new sovereign state of the 21st century, the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste (East Timor) is a small nation with a complex history and, according to Adventist leaders there, huge potential.
Southern Asia-Pacific Division Timor-Leste Country (Based on SDA membership)
Introduction of the Adventist message in Togo began in 1959 with the arrival of a European literature evangelist named Georges Vaysse who had come from Ghana to Togo and Benin to distribute pamphlets and Christian books.
West-Central Africa Division Togo Country (Based on SDA membership)
A part of the South Pacific Division of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, Tokelau is within the administrative area of the Samoa-Tokelau Mission in the Trans Pacific Union Mission. With a population of only around 1500 people living on three Pacific coral atolls, Tokelau is one of the smallest and most remote nations in the world, located approximately 500 kilometers north of Samoa.
South Pacific Division Tokelau Country (Based on SDA membership)
Tonga is a Polynesian kingdom of approximately 170 islands divided into three main groups—Tongatapu in the south, the Ha’apai group in the center, and the Vava’u group in the north.
South Pacific Division Tonga Country (Based on SDA membership)
Adventist teachings were probably introduced to Trinidad and Tobago through literature sent from Southampton, England, around 1879 through the efforts of John Loughborough. As early as 1880 or 1881 a group of Sabbath keepers led by James P. Braithwaite met in Tobago. By the early 1880s, Adventist literature was sent to Trinidad and Tobago by the International Tract and Missionary Society (ITMS) in the United States.
Inter-American Division Trinidad and Tobago Country (Based on SDA membership)
Tunisia, officially the Republic of Tunisia, is the northernmost country in Africa. The history of the Adventist church in Tunisia began in 1928 when it was organized as part of the Mission and Services in Trans-Mediterranean Countries.
Middle East and North Africa Union Mission Tunisia Country (Based on SDA membership)
Seventh-day Adventist work began in Turkey when a Greek shoemaker, Theodore Anthony, returned from America in February 1889 as a self-supporting missionary. Having immigrated only two years earlier at the age of 49, he accepted the Adventist message during evangelistic meetings near his home. Selling his business and all his belongings, Anthony’s only ambition was to share his newfound faith among friends and family in his native country.
Middle East and North Africa Union Mission Turkey Country (Based on SDA membership)
Turkmenistan is a country situated in Central Asia and washed in the west by the Caspian Sea. The first official data about members of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church in Central Asia appeared in the published reports of Russian Union for the second quarter of 1908 and mentioned a company of Seventh-day Adventists in the city of Ashkhabad consisting of six members.
Euro-Asia Division Turkmenistan Country (Based on SDA membership)
The Turks and Caicos Islands is a British Overseas Territory in the West Indies, located south of the Bahamas in the Atlantic Ocean.
Inter-American Division Turks and Caicos Islands Country (Based on SDA membership)
Tuvalu is an attached district of the Trans-Pacific Union Mission of the South Pacific Division. Its headquarters are on Funafuti Island, Tuvalu.
South Pacific Division Tuvalu Country (Based on SDA membership)
Uganda is a landlocked country bordered by Kenya in the east, South Sudan in the north, Democratic Republic of the Congo in the west, Rwanda in the southwest, and Tanzania in the south. Uganda’s total land area is 241,559 sq km. About 37,000 sq km of this area is occupied by open water while the rest is land. The southern part of the country includes a substantial portion of Lake Victoria, which it shares with Kenya and Tanzania.
East-Central Africa Division Uganda Country (Based on SDA membership)
The first Adventist tracts were brought to Ukraine in 1882 and actively distributed in Crimea by Philipp Reiswig. The first Adventists appeared in 1886 in Crimea in the village of Berdy Bulat, as a result of baptism conducted by Pastor L. R. Conradi.
Ukrainian Union Conference Ukraine Country (Based on SDA membership)
The first mention of a Seventh-day Adventist living in UAE was in 1975 when Mrs. Darlene Pickle held a series of health cooking classes in Dubai, where she lived. She also conducted a weekly Story Hour for the neighborhood children with help from her own five children.
Middle East and North Africa Union Mission United Arab Emirates Country (Based on SDA membership)
The United States Virgin Islands are a group of islands and cays in the Caribbean. Among the group of islands and cays, there are four inhabited islands: St. Croix, St. Thomas, St. John, and Water Island. Dexter A. Ball, an Adventist minister in the Caribbean, brought the Adventist message to St. Thomas in 1892.
Inter-American Division United States Virgin Islands Country (Based on SDA membership)
The first official reference to Seventh-day Adventists in Uzbekistan dates back to 1906, when a group of believers settled in villages of the Khodjent District in the Samarkand Region.
Euro-Asia Division Uzbekistan Country (Based on SDA membership)
Vanuatu, formerly known as the New Hebrides, consists of thirteen main islands and many smaller islands all located in the southwest of the Pacific Ocean.
South Pacific Division Vanuatu Country (Based on SDA membership)
Venezuela is a federal presidential republic with twenty-three states, a capital district, and federal dependencies, which include the islands and islets near the coast of Venezuela. The Seventh-day Adventist Church was established in Venezuela on March 25, 1911.
Inter-American Division Venezuela Country (Based on SDA membership)