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Edward Alexander Sutherland was a teacher, college president, facilitator for the establishment of Adventist-laymen’s Services & Industries (ASI), secretary of the General Conference Commission on Rural Living, organizer of ASI chapters throughout the North American Division, and founder of the school-sanitarium-farm model for Adventist education.
Diran Tcharakian was a poet, artist, author, university professor, and convinced atheist before he became a Seventh-day Adventist minister and modern-day Paul in Turkey’s Ottoman Empire. Following in the steps of Adventist pioneers Theodore Anthony and Zadour Baharian, he became known as “the new apostle” to the interior of Asia Minor, where in the end he sacrificed his life for the Adventist cause.
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Wilma and Jack Tegler were American missionary educators to Africa, who spent much of their missionary years in Kenya. They served at the Maxwell School in Nairobi and also at the Kamagambo Training School in south-western Kenya.
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Johana araap Telo was a pioneer Kipsigis Seventh-day Adventist, evangelist, and teacher. Johana araap Telo was born about the year 1900 at Sosiot in Kericho in Western Kenya.
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Arthur Randolph Tucker was a leading missionary educator and administrator. He was the sixth principal and first president of Caribbean Union College (now the University of the Southern Caribbean), serving between 1944 and 1950 in Trinidad. Arthur and his wife Florence, who was a teacher, served in the United States, Japan, Korea, and Trinidad.
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Tun Sein was a pioneer teacher and administrator in Burma (now Myanmar).
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Ethel Louise Twing was an Adventist missionary and a registered nurse who devoted her entire life to serving the continent of Africa.
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Alfred Vaucher was a Swiss-born Seventh-day Adventist pastor, evangelist, educator, historian, and prolific author whose ministry spanned nearly a century and whose influence shaped Adventist thought, education, and identity across Europe through preaching, teaching, and publishing.
Trula Elizabeth Wade was a pioneer teacher, educator, and residence hall dean at Oakwood College (now a university).
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Ernest Roy Warland was a missionary to Kenya and founder principal of Kamagambo School.
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Bertha E. Warner (née Milne) was a pioneer missionary teacher to Kenya. She moved to Nyanchwa, Kenya in January 1925 to establish the educational program for girls’ education.
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Dorothy Eaton Watts was an Adventist educator, author, and women’s ministries leader who founded Sunshine Home, the first Seventh-day Adventist orphanage in southern India.
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Mabel Branch was the first African American public school teacher in the state of Colorado and she, along with her parents, Thomas and Henrietta Branch, became the first black missionaries sent to Africa by the Seventh-day Adventist church.
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William Maxwell and Evelyn Mary Webster dedicated their lives to mission work across Africa. Max served in various roles, including secretary-treasurer in multiple unions, playing a key role in church growth and administration. Eve worked as a teacher and licensed missionary alongside her husband, while also raising their family. In retirement, they continued their ministry, with Max being honored as Helderberg College’s Alumnus of the Year in 1998.
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Harold and Mabel White served together in New Zealand, Australia, and Fiji. Harold White worked as a pastor, evangelist, and church administrator. Mabel White was a teacher, college matron, and a founding faculty member of the Pukekura Training School in New Zealand.
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Edwin Wilbur was trained as an educator, printer, nurse, and minister. Susan was a nurse, educator, and colporteur. Together the couple would go as pioneer missionaries to China serving as the denomination’s first official missionaries in mainland China. Edwin’s name in Chinese was: 邬尔布 (Pinyin Wūěrbù) and Susan’s Chinese name was: 邬秀珊 (Pinyin Wūxiùshān).
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Helen Williams was a pioneering minister, Bible worker, teacher, and missionary in South Africa.
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John and Jane Wilson were long-serving Adventist missionaries in Africa.
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Opal Hoover Young was an English professor, author, editor of the Andrews University magazine Focus, and the first woman in the Michigan Conference to be ordained an elder.
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Virgilio Zaldívar Marrero was a pioneering colporteur, pastor, and educator in Cuba.