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Reuben Kombe Yeri was a prolific preacher and church planter who also served as the president of the Central Kenya Conference.
Gera Azmach Amare Yeshaw was a teacher, Bible worker, translator, and church administrator in Ethiopia. He also served as a member of the Ethiopian parliament.
Zanzibar is sovereign state within the Republic of Tanzania. The state consists of two islands, namely Unguja and Pemba, in the Indian Ocean off the shore of the Tanzania mainland, formally Tanganyika. Most of the area is at sea level, with the highest point being 119 meters above sea level. The population was estimated to be 1,300,000 residents by the 2012 census. The residents of Zanzibar consist of people of different origins, including the Africans who are the majority, Arabs, Indians, and others.
East-Central Africa Division Country (Based on SDA membership)
Zanzibar SDA Dispensary was officially registered January 31, 1988, with the Tanzania Union Mission officers as trustees.
Zephaniah Bina was an Adventist teacher, pastor, prayer warrior, and administrator in Tanzania. Zephaniah Bina was born in 1919 at Kibumaye, Tarime District, in the Mara region located around Lake Victoria in Tanzania. Before he became an Adventist, Bina practiced African tradition religion, and later Roman Catholicism. He became an Adventist in 1934.
The Seventh-day Adventist work at Zoissa started in 1977 through the families of Elder Ndumula and Elder Asheli Lusenga from Mghumbi. The two families from Kibaigwa village, Kongwa, Dodoma, some 58 kilometers away, had gone there for agricultural reasons. Upon arrival, they initiated Bible study with some people at Zoissa, which resulted in the conversion of Amon Kudel in 1979, who was subsequently baptized in 1980. As time went by, the number of baptized increased to 14.