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Edwin Robert Hutchinson was a dedicated and selfless missionary to Pakistan and Bangladesh who served during the political crisis and civil war between Pakistan and Bangladesh.
Southern Asia-Pacific Division Biography Missionaries Died/Imprisoned for Faith
Dr. James M. Hyatt was the first Adventist missionary to work in Sierra Leone and the church’s first black missionary to enter both the Gold Coast (present-day Ghana) and Nigeria.
North American Division Biography Groundbreakers Missionaries
William Hyatt and Sarah Armitage were pioneer missionaries to Texas and Africa. William was a minister, evangelist, revivalist, and administrator; Sadie was an educator. William became the first documented Adventist missionary to use the glass lantern slide projector after his return from the 1905 General Conference Session. He was highly regarded for his organizational skills and developed regular training for church workers to mobilize them to distribute literature, conduct Bible studies, and hold evangelistic campmeetings to organize and build up new congregations.
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Walter and Frieda Ising were German Adventist missionaries to the Middle East.
Daniel Richard Jackson was a pastor, teacher, missionary, and administrator; from 2010 to 2020, he was the president of the North American Division of Seventh-day Adventists.
Joseph and Mabel James worked as missionaries in Vanuatu.
Judson and Minnie James were the first Adventist missionary in South India.
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Christian Johannes Jensen, pioneer missionary from Denmark, labored in Southern Asia Division for 34 years, establishing churches and schools in villages and small towns in Northeast India.
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Ejler Jensen first ministered in the Nevada-Utah Conference of Seventh-day Adventists prior to pioneering in Alaska and Okinawa Island. He followed with administrative positions at the Tokyo Sanitarium and Hospital, Japan Union Mission, Penang Sanitarium, and St. Helena Hospital. He concluded his ministry as pastor of the Miranda congregation, California.
Alf Johannes Johanson, along with his wife, Ida, served the Seventh-day Adventist church in five countries--Sweden, Burma, India, United States, and Sri Lanka--as a publishing director, church administrator, dean of men, and in the process developed countless national church leaders for varied ministries of the church.
Eric John Johanson devoted 54 years of faithful service to the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Asia, America, and in his homeland of Australia. Eric and Nettie were pioneer missionaries to China, Singapore, and Southeast Asia, where their impact was widely felt.
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Captain Griffith Francis Jones, and his wife, Marion, were pioneer missionaries in Singapore, the Solomon Islands, New Caledonia, New Britain, and Gibraltar.
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Pioneer Adventist missionaries to Cameroon and Congo, Robert and Charlotte Jones both served as teachers. Robert was also an ordained minister.
North American Division Biography Couples Missionaries Educators
Harold George Josephs was an evangelist, pastor, and educational administrator. Harold and Olive Josephs were missionaries to India.
South Pacific Division Biography Educators Missionaries Couples
Bernard and Emma Judge served the Seventh-day Adventist Church in their homeland Australia and as early missionaries to Sumatra and Java.
Guillermina Deggeller de Kalbermatter was a missionary nurse in Peru and Argentina, and wife of missionary Pedro Kalbermatter (1886-1968).
South American Division Biography Missionaries Medical Workers Women
George Farid Khoury was a pastor, church administrator, leading evangelist, Bible teacher at Middle East College, and missionary, serving the Adventist Church in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Jordan, and the United States. Venice Semaan Khoury faithfully worked alongside her husband for 48 years as she assisted him in his ministry.
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Mary Kilel was a Kenyan missionary nurse to Uganda, a lay evangelist, and a leader of the youth movement in Nandi in Western Kenya.
East-Central Africa Division Biography Missionaries Medical Workers Women
Rachel “Anna” Knight was an African-American Adventist missionary nurse, teacher, colporteur, Bible worker, and conference official.
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Peter Knopper and his wife, Kerry Sharelle were appointed as missionaries to Papua New Guinea at the beginning of 1985. In 1988 at Homu in the Eastern Highlands of the country Peter was killed in the course of his service.
South Pacific Division Biography Missionaries Died/Imprisoned for Faith