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Lilakai (Lily) Neil was the first Navajo to become a Seventh-day Adventist and the first woman to become a member of the Navajo Nation Council.
Dorthea or “Thea” Nielsen was a Danish missionary nurse and instructor who served in Kenya at the Kendu Mission Hospital before moving to Nyanchwa.
East-Central Africa Division Biography Missionaries Medical Workers Women
Karen Nielsen was a Danish missionary nurse and medical trainer who served faithfully in Kenya at the Kendu Mission Hospital for nearly 30 years in continued service in Kenya.
East-Central Africa Division Biography Women Missionaries Medical Workers
Missionary to China, colporteur, fundraiser for Adventist and Red Cross hospitals and educational institutions, writer, and public speaker. Oss witnessed the Shanghai incident and the Second Sino-Japanese War in Shanghai and was a World War II Japanese concentration-camp survivor. Oss with her husband John returned to China after recuperating in the United States and stayed until they were forced to leave by the Communist Chinese government in 1950.
Chinese Union Mission Biography Missionaries Died/Imprisoned for Faith Women
Rose Otis was the first director of the General Conference’s Department of Women’s Ministries. She was also the first woman to be elected a vice president of the North American Division and later, vice president of the Texas Conference.
General Conference Biography Groundbreakers Missionaries Women
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
Sarah Peck was an educational pioneer and curriculum author, and a literary assistant to Ellen G. White.
North American Division Biography Educators Groundbreakers Women
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
Rachel Oaks Preston was a Seventh Day Baptist who introduced the seventh-day Sabbath to Advent believers, initiating a growing Sabbatarian Adventist movement.
May Priest was an early Millerite convert who was among the earliest Sabbatarian believers. She is best remembered in the annals of Adventist history as one of four women who, with S. N. Haskell, founded the Vigilant Missionary Society and served as the secretary of that organization from its inception until her death.
Lucila Braun Ranzolin was a teacher and educator in Brazil.
Sine Renlev was Denmark’s first female Seventh-day Adventist preacher. With her pleasant personality, her guitar, and her beautiful singing voice, she drew large numbers to her Bible lectures in public halls, tents, or the homes of interested people. Having become a Seventh-day Adventist in 1879, she almost immediately set out to preach the present truth, and no one could stop her from sharing her newfound faith.
Trans-European Division Denmark Biography Groundbreakers Women
Eulalia Richards, M.D., was a pioneering medical doctor who contributed to the health ministry of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Australia and beyond as a public speaker and writer on medical, temperance, and well-being issues particularly to do with women’s and children’s health.
South Pacific Division Biography Groundbreakers Medical Workers Women
Loretta Farnsworth is credited with being the first Seventh-day Adventist Bible worker. She served as a pioneer city mission worker, evangelist, pioneer missionary to South Africa and Australia, chaplain, and religion teacher.
North American Division Biography Groundbreakers Missionaries Women
Mimi Scharffenberg was a Bible instructor, translator, editor, and pioneer missionary, the first single female Adventist missionary to Korea.
Inter-European Division Biography Groundbreakers Missionaries Women
Catherine Jeanette Schuil was a British missionary educator, administrator, and curriculum developer for the Adventist schools in Kenya. She served for over two decades before returning to England in 1951 after her mother became ill and needed her care.
Inter-European Division Biography Educators Missionaries Women
Helen May Scott, an educational missionary, entered Chosen (Korea) as the fourth of the missionaries for the educational work of the Korean Adventist Church. She was the longest missionary in Korea, serving for 32 years.
Northern Asia-Pacific Division Biography Groundbreakers Missionaries Women
Damari Namdori Kangalu Sefue was the first native Tanzanian woman to obtain a teaching certificate. Damari inspired young women to go to school, demonstrating that women can excel if given an opportunity.
East-Central Africa Division Biography Educators Groundbreakers Women
Marion G. Seitz Simmons was an Adventist educator for more than fifty years. At various times, she served as education superintendent, elementary supervisor, and associate secretary at the local, union, and division conference levels.
Adell Sherbet's refusal to work on the Sabbath (Saturday) led to a U.S. Supreme Court decision that expanded the legal rights of seventh day Sabbathkeepers as well as those of other people whose religious scruples kept them from working on a different day.