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The East-Central Tanzania Conference (formerly known as the East Tanzania Conference) is one among the five church administrative units of the Southern Tanzania Union Mission. It serves among its sister units: South East Tanzania Conference (SEC), Southern Highlands Conference (SHC), and the two newly organized fields which are the Central Tanzania Field (CTF) and Lake Tanganyika Field.
The East-Coastal Tanzania Field is an administrative unit of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Tanzania. It was officially organized on June 5, 2025, and operates under the Southern Tanzania Union Mission, a constituent entity of the East-Central Africa Division of Seventh-day Adventists.
Eastern Uganda Field is a part of Uganda Union Mission of the East-Central Africa Division of Seventh-day Adventists. The field headquarters is located at Kamonkoli, Tirinyi Highway, Mbale, Uganda.
Formerly part of the Greater Upper Nile Field, the Eastern Upper Nile Field was organized in 2020. It is currently part of the South Sudan Attached Territory in the East-Central Africa Division of Seventh-day Adventists.
Ebenezer Adventist Health Centre in Ntandi, Uganda, is a Health Centre III medical facility serving the impoverished people of Mabere sub-county.
Eldoret Adventist Guest House is an Adventist hospitality facility in Western Kenya.
Godson Elieneza was a Tanzanian Seventh-day Adventist pastor, educator, missionary pioneer, and church administrator whose ministry spanned more than four decades during a formative period in the development of Adventism in northern Tanzania.
Beli Bosco Emmanuel developed an interest in becoming a pastor at the age of 15 and became a model for the young people who want to become ministers in Western Equatoria.
East-Central Africa Division Biography Died/Imprisoned for Faith
Empress Zewditu Memorial Hospital in Addis Ababa occupies a distinguished place in the history of Seventh-day Adventist medical missionary work in Ethiopia. For more than four decades (1933-1974), it served as the flagship Adventist healthcare institution in the country.
Ethiopia Adventist College (EAC) is the only Seventh-day Adventist institution of higher education in Ethiopia. The institution traces its beginnings to Adventist mission and youth training initiatives at Kuyera in the late 1940s and has developed over time into a multi-program tertiary institution serving the church and the wider community.
The Ethiopia Adventist Publishing House (formerly known as the Ethiopia Adventist Press) serves as the official publishing institution jointly owned and operated by the Eastern Ethiopia Union Mission and the Western Ethiopia Union Mission. Based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the institution has functioned for over seventy years as the primary center for producing Adventist literature in the country.
East-Central Africa Division Publishing House/Media Institution
Among the cultural practices of Rwanda, there are several that can be useful to missionaries introducing the gospel. They can create a connection between local culture and the gospel. However, instead of adapting these common practices in Rwanda, some missionaries in the past branded them devilish and lost valuable opportunities to connect with the local people.
The Eyira Adventist Vocational Academy (EAVA) was officially established in 1996, becoming the first Seventh-day Adventist Church operated secondary school in the then “liberated area” of South Sudan.
Munyenkiko Ezechiel served the Adventist Church in Burundi for fifty-six years in various capacities, including as president of the East and West Burundi fields.
Goshe Feleke, popularly known among Ethiopian Seventh-day Adventists as “Prophet Goshe” or “the Illiterate Prophet,” was a lay member whose life and ministry left a deep impression on believers in the Gondar region of northern Ethiopia.
Filipo Kamba Gunini was a pastor, missionary and teacher from Tanzania.
Donald Louis Folkenberg was an American missionary who dedicated several years of his service to Africa, serving primarily in Kenya. He was a denominational worker in the East Africa Union from 1968 to 1973, serving in Nairobi and briefly in Kisii under the South Kenya Field before returning to the United States to continue his work for the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
Laban Gahunde was a dynamic Adventist preacher and stewardship director in Rwanda.
Woldeselassie Gebregzabher Gebretsadik (formerly known as, Doda Gembero Belelo) was a lay evangelist, teacher and church planter in Ethiopia.
Gendia Mission was organized in November 1906 and was reorganized as the Kenya Lake Mission in 1963.