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Penny Gustafson Miller was an Adventist nurse, educator, and advocate for professional women in the Adventist Church.
North American Division Biography Women Educators Medical Workers
Joseph and Jeanette (Nettie) Mills taught together at the Eastern Training School in Singapore. Joseph Mills later distinguished himself as the founding principal of the New Zealand Missionary College at Longburn. He also served as principal of the Australasian Missionary College at Avondale, New South Wales, and the Darling Range School at Carmel, Western Australia.
South Pacific Division Biography Educators Groundbreakers Missionaries Couples
Albin Močnik was the first Slovenian convert to Adventism and pioneer of Adventism in the former Yugoslavian countries. He worked as an evangelist, church administrator, author, editor, and educator.
Trans-European Division Biography Groundbreakers Educators Died/Imprisoned for Faith
Natanael Pereira de Moraes was a pastor, a teacher, and a published author from Brazil.
James Lewis Moran was a pioneer of black Seventh-day Adventist education who served as the founding principal of Harlem and Pine Forge academies, as well as the first African American president of Oakwood Junior College.
Byron Morse was a pioneer American missionary educator and administrator to Kenya, arriving within three years of the commencement of the Seventh-day Adventist missionary work in Kenya. He and his wife helped deepen the Adventist work in East Africa and was the face of the relations between the colonial administration and the Adventist mission.
East-Central Africa Division Biography Educators Missionaries
Helen Luella Morton was an Adventist teacher, student, doctor, and missionary who lived an extraordinary life. Morton faced numerous difficulties throughout her life, especially with her health, yet she persevered and achieved many amazing accomplishments. She had great love and passion for both teaching and mission work.
North American Division Biography Educators Missionaries Died/Imprisoned for Faith Women
Frederick Mote was a distinguished departmental secretary in the Indiana Conference, the Philippine Union Mission and Far Eastern Division of Seventh-day Adventists. He also served as president of the West Visayan Mission, the Missouri Conference, the Upper Columbia Conference (the Australasian Division), and the Far Eastern Division. He completed his service as a field secretary with the General Conference. His wife Florence taught Bible units, music, and regular subjects at academies and nurses training institutions wherever Frederick was located.
Northern Asia-Pacific Division Biography Missionaries Educators Couples
Lenel Moulds served as a Seventh-day Adventist minister in Christchurch and Sydney and taught religion at Columbia Union College. He returned to Australia to teach religion at Avondale College but was dismissed in 1968 for his unorthodox views.
Ezra Mpyisi was a Rwandan Seventh-day Adventist educator, pastor, and church administrator whose ministry extended across Central and East Africa. Shaped by the early Adventist school system in Rwanda, he served as a teacher, school administrator, evangelist, theological instructor, and church leader in Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi, Tanzania, Kenya, and Uganda.
Mishael Chigula Mutaki was a Tanzanian Seventh-day Adventist pastor, theologian, translator, and educator whose ministry in Tanzania spanned more than three decades.
Isaac O. Nwaobia was an Adventist educator and church administrator in Nigeria. He was one of the seven pioneers of Adventist College of West Africa.
Gideon Chimaeze Nwaogwugwu was a Nigerian Seventh-day Adventist pastor, evangelist, educator, and Church administrator. He served as president of the East Nigeria Conference and became the pioneer president of the Eastern Nigeria Union Mission. He also contributed to Adventist higher education through Babcock University and, later, Clifford University.
Daudi Inda Ogillo was a Tanzanian teacher, pastor, and pioneer missionary to Sudan.
East-Central Africa Division Biography Educators Groundbreakers Missionaries
Philip Emelefu Onwere was a pastor, church administrator, evangelist, and teacher in the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
Daniel Ogbonna Onyeodo was a Seventh-day Adventist pastor, evangelist, teacher, and church administrator from Aba in Eastern Nigeria. He mentored many young pastors and served in various places in Nigeria.
William Adolphus Osborne was a leading pioneering Caribbean Adventist educator and administrator who worked and inspired Adventist youth for more than 40 years between 1930 and 1975.
New Zealand national John Paap was a gifted educator who taught in two countries: at Healdsburg College and Pacific Union College in the United States and at the Avondale School for Christian Workers in Australia.
South Pacific Division Biography Educators Missionaries Died/Imprisoned for Faith
Walter Page was a longtime Union College professor,.
Edith (Ward) Parkin was a pioneer of Adventist Education in Australasia. As one of the earliest graduates of Avondale School’s teachers’ training course, Ward made a significant contribution to church school work through the establishment of primary schools in New Zealand and briefly in her work on Nulla Nulla Mission in New South Wales, Australia.
South Pacific Division Biography Educators Groundbreakers Women