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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
Rufus W. Parmele was a minister, president of three conferences in the American South, and pioneering mission administrator in the territory that became the Inter-American Division.
William Henry Pascoe was a pioneer Seventh-day Adventist pastor, missionary, evangelist, and church administrator in New Zealand and Australia from 1901 to 1954.
South Pacific Division Biography Groundbreakers Missionaries
James Elisha Patterson was the first black Seventh-day Adventist to go out from the United States as a foreign missionary.
Inter-American Division Biography Groundbreakers Missionaries
David Paulson was a medical missionary physician and social reformer who, with his wife, Dr. Mary Wild Paulson, led an array of humanitarian endeavors in Chicago and founded Hinsdale Sanitarium in the city’s western suburbs.
North American Division Biography Groundbreakers Medical Workers
Sarah Peck was an educational pioneer and curriculum author, and a literary assistant to Ellen G. White.
North American Division Biography Educators Groundbreakers Women
Antônio Leôncio da Penha was a literature evangelist and pioneer Adventist in Bahia, Brazil.
Braulio Pérez Marcio was a pastor, educator, lecturer, writer, poet, and the founder and director of the international radio program Voice of Prophecy in Spanish for more than 30 years.
William Elmer Perrin served the Seventh-day Adventist Church as a pioneer missionary, printer, administrator, and editor, with his wife, Sarah, in the United States, Canada, and the Southern Asia Division.
Southern Asia Division Biography Groundbreakers Couples Missionaries
James Charles Hamley Perry and his wife, Muriel Albertina, were partners for 16 years as pioneer missionaries for the Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) Church in the South Pacific Islands, and subsequently for 18 years of pastoral evangelism in Western Australia.
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Julius Persson was one of the first Swedish missionaries to East Africa. His was a life with different commitments: colporteur, evangelist in Sweden, a multi-task missionary in East Africa, and health worker in Brazil and Germany.
Trans-European Division Biography Groundbreakers Missionaries
Meanou was the first Papuan missionary to leave his home village and travel to other villages and districts. Initially he worked with William Lock at Bisiatabu.
South Pacific Division Biography Groundbreakers Missionaries
George Edward Peters was one of the leading pioneering evangelists, urban pastors, and church administrators between 1908 and 1953, serving the predominantly African American believers. Elder Peters was the first Caribbean born Adventist leader to serve his church at its headquarters serving as the director of the Negro (Colored/Regional) department between 1941 and 1953.
Baldur Pfeiffer was both an important Adventist mission historian – one of the first to explore Adventist missionary impulses coming from Europe – and a dedicated humanitarian. He contributed both to the Seventh-day Adventist denomination and to the landscape of education and humanitarian work internationally by building up institutions and organizations such as Middle East College, Theologische Hochschule Friedensau, the European Adventist Archives, and Support Africa.
Inter-European Division Biography Educators Groundbreakers Missionaries
P. Pieterz was one of the first pioneers in Batavia, now Jakarta. Although he relied on a prosthetic leg, he traveled throughout Java to proclaim the Three Angels’ messages. He also pioneered the Adventist mission work beyond Java, including in Ambon, the island of his birth.
Erik and Ida Pilquist were pioneer missionaries to China. Erik worked for several Bible societies as an independent missionary. At one point he played a pivotal role in the development of Adventist missions in China. Ida was a steadfast advocate on behalf of the women of China, training “Bible women” and starting girls’ schools.
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Albert Henry Piper was the first missionary from Australasia to serve in the Pacific Islands, and he also served as Australasian Missionary College principal, conference secretary and president, and Australasian Union Conference secretary for 12 years.
South Pacific Division Biography Groundbreakers Missionaries Couples
Maui Pomare was the first Maori New Zealander to qualify as a physician.
South Pacific Division Biography Groundbreakers Medical Workers
Lucy Belinda Post, a missionary from North American, was the first Bible instructor in South America and did pioneering work in Uruguay and Argentina in her mature years.
South American Division Biography Groundbreakers Missionaries Women
Forrest and Jennie Pratt were among the first Adventist missionaries to enter Thailand. They served also in the Philippines and the United States.
Southern Asia-Pacific Division Biography Groundbreakers Missionaries Couples