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Samuel and Ruth Konigmacher were pioneer Adventist medical missionaries and educators in Africa. They contributed significantly to establishing and expanding mission stations across present-day Malawi and Zambia between 1908 and 1928, pushing the church’s work into previously unentered regions of Africa and introducing innovations, including one of the first Adventist mission airstrips in 1933. Despite immense personal loss, illness, famine, persecution, and later tragedy, they profoundly shaped Adventism’s growth in central Africa.
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Siegfried Arthur Kotz was a medical missionary and administrator in East and Central Africa, the United States, and Australia.
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Dr. Edwin Carl Kraft was a leading medical missionary to Africa who worked in several countries including Kenya, serving at the Kendu Adventist Hospital.
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Bertha Amelia Kurtz was an Adventist colporteur and missionary.
Abram La Rue was a mariner, gold prospector, and tireless colporteur and ship missionary who traveled the world and pioneered the Adventist work into Asia.
Southern Asia-Pacific Division Biography Died/Imprisoned for Faith Groundbreakers Missionaries
Don Lale and his wife Ann were Adventist teachers serving as missionaries in Zimbabwe when in 1981 they were brutally murdered by suspected Mozambican rebels in a dawn attack at the school where they taught. The rebels were carrying out reprisals against an attack by South African forces, and the Lales were innocent victims of their rage.
Trans-European Division United Kingdom Biography Missionaries Died/Imprisoned for Faith
Frederick and Lily Lang were appointed to Fiji. Frederick and seven others lost their lives at sea in a hurricane in November 1930.
South Pacific Division Biography Missionaries Died/Imprisoned for Faith
Lens and Betty Larwood were medical missionaries at Atoifi Hospital on the island of Malaita in the Solomon Islands. In August 1979 Lens lost his life in the course of his duties in a tractor accident.
South Pacific Division Biography Missionaries Died/Imprisoned for Faith
Conrad Laubhan was the earliest pioneer Adventist missionary in Russia, with the significant support of his wife, Katherine Sophia.
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Law Keem (Liu Jian) was a pioneer medical missionary in southern China and the first Adventist Chinese national to return to serve in his homeland.
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James Arthur Leland, Jr. was a missionary to the Philippines and the first manager of the Philippine Publishing House.
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Rodney Lindup was a missionary evangelist, administrator, and educator noted for establishing the Adventist work among the Indians of South Africa. He also served in Tanganyika in East Africa together with his wife, American-born Hazel Helen.
Frank Herbert Loasby was a pioneering Seventh-day Adventist missionary to present-day Pakistan and northern India.
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Sheridan and Myrtle Lockwood were medical doctors and missionaries who pioneered the Kobe Sanitarium in Japan in 1902.
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Marvin E. Loewen served as a pastor-evangelist and administrator in China, the Philippines, and the United States, and as director of Department of Public Affairs and Religious Liberty at the General Conference.
Ezra Leon Longway, known to his Chinese friends as Luó Wēi (羅威), was a pioneer missionary to Thailand for several years and later devoted his ministry to administration in the China Division, the South China Island Union Mission, and the Far Eastern Division. The period included the eventful years of the Japanese occupation of China, World War Ⅱ, and the Communist takeover of mainland China.
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Charles Fulton Lowry was an evangelist, pastor, pioneer missionary in Burna (Myanmar), church planter, and church administrator.
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Gentry G. Lowry was a teacher, preacher, organizer, author, executive, and president of the Southern Asia Division where he ministered with his wife, Bertha.
Southern Asia Division Biography Missionaries Died/Imprisoned for Faith
Asheri Malenda Lusega was a pioneering literature evangelist and church planter of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Tanzania. His ministry, spanning over two decades (1965–1988), significantly contributed to the establishment and expansion of Adventist work in Dodoma, Kongwa, Mpwapwa, Singida, and Morogoro regions.
Australians by birth, Allan and Ivy Maberly were pioneering Seventh-day Adventist missionaries to Tibet.
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