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Pioneer Missionary, pastor and church administrator, Frank T. Maberly served the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the South Pacific for thirty-eight years. He gave ten years to mission service in Papua New Guinea followed by twenty-eight years in various roles in Australia. His pioneering mission work in the late 1940s among the Enga population opened the Wabag region of the Central Highlands of Papua New Guinea and laid a secure foundation for the remarkable growth of the Church in this region.
South Pacific Division Biography Groundbreakers Missionaries
Dr. George Madgwick was the first full-time missionary physician who began his missionary work in Kenya.
East-Central Africa Division Biography Groundbreakers Medical Workers Missionaries
Oti Maekera was a pioneering Solomon Island missionary responsible for initiating the work of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in New Britain, Mussau, Manus, and Kainantu in Papua New Guinea. Each of these areas was to become a center of Adventist influence in the country.
South Pacific Division Biography Groundbreakers Missionaries
Santiago Jakob Mangold was part of one of the first groups of believers in the Argentine Republic and a missionary in several countries in the South American Division.
South American Division Biography Groundbreakers Missionaries
William Mansker was a teacher, minister, church administrator, and missionary. He spent four years of service in Kenya working mainly at the Kenya coast.
East-Central Africa Division Biography Educators Missionaries
Elias George and Dorothy Olive Jones Marcus were pioneer medical missionaries in Africa.
Southern Africa-Indian Ocean Division Biography Groundbreakers Missionaries Medical Workers Couples
George and Alicia Marriott were among the earliest missionaries for the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Fiji Islands.
South Pacific Division Biography Groundbreakers Missionaries Couples
Joseph M. Marsh was captain of the Pitcairn on its first missionary voyage to the South Pacific, 1890-1892.
North American Division Biography Groundbreakers Missionaries Died/Imprisoned for Faith
Fairley Masters was a colporteur and one of the first Adventist missionaries to be sent from Australia.
South Pacific Division Biography Groundbreakers Missionaries
Alfred and Elizabeth Matter were pioneer Adventist missionaries in Kenya, Rwanda, and the Belgian Congo.
Inter-European Division Biography Groundbreakers Missionaries Couples
John Gottlieb Matteson (b. Johannes Gottlieb Mathiesen) was a minister, editor, and pioneer missionary in Scandinavia.
Trans-European Division Biography Missionaries Groundbreakers
Constance Mary Maxwell was a missionary to Kenya, arriving in 1920 and serving until her death in 1942. She was the wife of Spencer George Maxwell, who served as superintendent of the East Africa Union before moving to Blantyre after her death in Kenya.
Trans-European Division Biography Died/Imprisoned for Faith Missionaries Women
Spencer Maxwell was a pioneer missionary to East, Central, and Southern Africa. As soon as he arrived in Africa, Spencer Maxwell displayed unusual eagerness to carry out mission work. He established the work in many unentered areas, pioneered many mission stations, fields and conferences, travelled great distances, and braved grave dangers in what would be a four-decade missionary sojourn in Africa.
Trans-European Division Biography Groundbreakers Missionaries
Hans Mayr, a self-supporting missionary, was a pioneer in the Amazon region in northern Brazil.
Inter-European Division Biography Groundbreakers Missionaries
W. Hume McHenry served as a front-line pastor in the rural areas of Maharashtra, and he later rewrote much of the Voice of Prophecy lessons that proved a great success in India.
Fred L. Mead was an early leader in Adventist colporteur ministry and, with his wife Rosie Cochran Mead, among the church’s earliest missionaries to the indigenous people of southern Africa.
North American Division Biography Missionaries Died/Imprisoned for Faith Groundbreakers Couples
LeRoy Bell Mershon dedicated twenty years to service in the Far Eastern Division. Alongside his first wife, Myrtle, he was among the pioneering workers on Borneo Island. Following Myrtle’s passing, Mershon married Elizabeth Pickett, and together they continued their work in Borneo, Kuala Lumpur in the Federated Malay States, Singapore, the Visayan Islands, and Mindanao in the Philippines.
Southern Asia-Pacific Division Biography Missionaries Couples
Cecil K. Meyers was the General Conference secretary from 1926 to 1933.
Ellen Meyers was a pioneering Adventist missionary who devoted her life to serving the people of Burma, Fiji, and India.
South Pacific Division Biography Groundbreakers Missionaries Women
Claude Bishop and Victoria (Martin) Miller worked with nurses Dallas and Vera (Mosebar) White in Southwest China in the late 1920s to establish the first Seventh-day Adventist mission in Yunnan. Victoria was tragically murdered in 1931. Claude later married Irene Dawson in 1933 and continued to serve as an administrator and ordained minister until they were evacuated to the U.S. in 1949, after 23 years of mission service in China. He then pastored 13 years in the Illinois and Nevada-Utah Conferences and served five additional years in East Asia as president of both the Hong Kong-Macao Union and the South China Island Union Mission, for a total of 41 continuous years of denominational service.
Chinese Union Mission China Biography Missionaries Couples Died/Imprisoned for Faith