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Pioneer physician and minister Horatio Samuel Lay was the founding medical director of the Health Reform Institute, the Seventh-day Adventist Church’s first health institution, and founding editor of The Health Reformer, the denomination’s first health periodical.
The 47th General Hospital was a reserve unit1 of the United States Army Medical Corps. Organized in 1926 under the commanded of the IX Corps of the United States Army Reserve, its officer staff was mostly comprised of Seventh-day Adventist medical personnel from the College of Medical Evangelists’ White Memorial Hospital. It was activated for service in World War II’s South Pacific Theater from 1943 to 1946. The unit crest included the Latin phrase “Deo Et Humanitas,” which reads “For God and Humanity” in English.
Don L. Aalborg served as a pastor-evangelist and in conference administration as a youth director, educational superintendent, executive secretary and president, during 37 years of ministry, 23 of them in the Georgia-Cumberland Conference.
George Abbott, physician and author, was the first dean of what became the School of Medicine at Loma Linda University and served for more than three decades in the roles of medical director and surgeon at leading Adventist sanitariums. Dr. Cora Richards Abbott, an obstetrician, engaged in medical ministry in tandem with her husband.
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William E. Abernathy served the church for 36 years primarily in the roles of institutional management and financial administration.
Benjamin W. Abney was a pioneering African American Seventh-day Adventist minister, missionary, and evangelist. He and his wife and co-laborer, Celia Hart Abney, were the first Black American missionaries sent by the Seventh-day Adventist church to South Africa.
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Clinton Achenbach was an American missionary who served during the early phases of Adventist work in the Spanish-speaking lands of Peru, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Cuba and the Dominican Republic.
Dorothy Evans Ackerman taught voice lessons and directed choirs at several Adventist schools (especially Southern Missionary College, now Southern Adventist University).
Anderson Grant Adams was the 15th treasurer of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.
In 1904 delegates in the East Michigan Conference (EMC) voted to open what would become Adelphian Academy. At the time there were only five senior academies in the United States, and none of them were in Michigan. These were South Lancaster Academy, Mount Vernon Academy, Keene Academy, Southern Industrial School, and Oakwood Industrial School. There were twelve “intermediate” schools, which is how Adelphian began – as a ten grade school. Among these twelve intermediate schools was Cedar Lake Industrial Academy (1899), and Battle Creek Industrial School (1904).
Advent Christian Church was a group of former Millerite believers who organized themselves as the Advent Christian Association in 1860.
The "Advent Herald," initially entitled "Signs of the Times," was the first periodical of the Millerite movement and the most enduring of those initiated in the early 1840s.
The first and only issue of the "Advent Mirror," published January 1845 in Boston, Massachusetts, proved to be a milestone in the development of Seventh-day Adventist teachings concerning the pre-advent judgment and final ministry of Christ in the heavenly sanctuary.
AdventHealth Shawnee Mission, previously known as Shawnee Mission Health and Shawnee Mission Medical Center, is a 504-bed hospital in Merriam, Kansas, that serves the Kansas City community with faith-based, whole-person care and a wide range of medical services.
AdventHealth University is a Seventh-day Adventist institution specializing in healthcare education in a faith-affirming environment. The physical facilities of AHU were established in 1992, and are still located, on the peninsula which separates Lake Winyah from Lake Estelle in Orlando, Florida next to Florida Hospital’s Orlando campus.
Adventist Health Castle is a Seventh-day Adventist healthcare facility based in Kailua, Hawaii.
Adventist Health Glendale—known for most of its history as Glendale Sanitarium and Hospital and later as Glendale Adventist Medical Center—is a major not-for-profit, 515-bed acute-care hospital in Glendale, California. Owned and operated by Adventist Health and affiliated with the Seventh-day Adventist Church, it is one of the oldest continuously operating Adventist medical institutions in the North American Division and the first medical institution founded by the Southern California Conference.
"Adventist Heritage" was a periodical that sought “to nourish an interest in Adventist history.” It catered both to scholars and general readers, covering both Seventh-day Adventist history and the broader field of Adventism.
The Adventist Volunteer Service (AVS) plan for the worldwide Church is designed to provide service opportunities for Seventh-day Adventists who want to share in the joy of taking the gospel to the world, matching their talents, gifts, resources, and professional expertise with defined needs.
The Adventist-Evangelical Conferences of 1955-1956 initiated by Protestant polemicist Walter R. Martin constituted a watershed development in the history of interfaith relationships between Adventists and evangelical Christians.