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Salimu Justin Kimera was the first native mission director of the East Tanganyika Mission.
Samuel Kimkum brought the Adventist faith to the Sabaot people of the Mt. Elgon area in Western Kenya. Even though he never became an Adventist himself, his resources and enthusiasm helped establish Adventism among the Sabaot people of Mt. Elgon area. A firm believer in the Adventist teachings and faith, Kimkung somehow never got around to join the Adventist Church but encouraged all his children and multiple wives to become Adventists.
Peter Kariuki was a leading lay evangelist and Bible worker in Central Kenya.
John Aza Kisaka was a distinguished Tanzanian Seventh-day Adventist Church leader, educator, and missiologist whose ministry extended over more than four decades. He emerged as a pioneering figure in contextualized mission, especially among the Maasai people.
Samson Mululu Kisekka was thus far the only Adventist in Uganda to become a Prime Minister and eventually a Vice President of the Republic of Uganda.
Kitungwa Adventist Secondary School is a co-educational boarding school situated on a 34-acre (14.21-hectare) site, ten kilometers from Morogoro, Tanzania, and 262.5 kilometers from Dodoma, the capital city. It is 184.9 kilometers from Dar es Salaam, the Tanzania’s major port at the Indian Ocean coast. The institution is operated by the East Central Tanzania Conference, which had a constituency of 52,505 in 2019. It is accredited by the Adventist Accrediting Association (AAA). In 2020, the school enrollment was 530. A total of forty-nine full-time staff members served in the various teaching and staff positions. The school’s mission is “to provide quality Christian education for the harmonious development of the physical, mental, social and spiritual potential of each student.” It’s academic program provides an ordinary secondary level education (Forms 1 through 4).
Kolwezi Hospital was officially opened in Kolwesi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in 2008.
Hans Ernst Kotz was an Adventist church leader in the mission field in Africa.
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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Edwin O. Krall and his wife, Patricia, were missionaries in Uganda. They implemented a mission strategy of investing in fields that could soon become self-supporting with trained locals.
Harrison Kung’u was a pioneer Adventist pastor, church planter, and builder.
Pastor Joseph Ngila Kyale was a pioneer Adventist teacher and pastor. He goes down in history as the first Kenyan pastor to qualify with a B.A. degree in Theology when he graduated in 1962 from Solusi College.
Stanley B. Kyambadde was a frontline pastor, church administrator, and exemplary Christian leader, as well as the first Ugandan to be president of Uganda Union.
Lake Tanganyika Field is a part of Southern Tanzania Union Mission in the East-Central Africa Division of Seventh-day Adventists.
Formerly part of Kenya Lake Conference and Ranen Conference, Lake Victoria Field was organized in 2017 and is now a part of West Kenya Union Conference in the Inter-American Division of Seventh-day Adventists. Its headquarters are in Homabay, Kenya.
Loitopuwak Simon Ole Lebabu was a Tanzanian Adventist pastor, evangelist, translator, media worker, and administrator whose ministry focused on pioneer outreach among hard-to-reach communities in northern and central Tanzania.
Referred to as “God’s Angel to Mount Rwenzori,” Magdalon Eugen (M. E.) Lind and his wife Kezia were pioneer missionaries of the Seventh-day Adventist Church to the Rwenzori Mountains in western Uganda. He was a pastor, director, president, fluent speaker of several African languages, fundraiser, and generous donor. As missionaries, Magadalon and Kezia were beloved by the people of Uganda and other countries where they worked, including Kenya, the United Kingdom, Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), and Lebanon.
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.
Thomas Rukiko Lisso served the Adventist Church in Tanzania as educator and administrator for 38 years. He translated Voice of Prophecy lessons from English into Kiswahili.