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Maui Pomare was the first Maori New Zealander to qualify as a physician.
South Pacific Division Biography Groundbreakers Medical Workers
Originally known as the Surrey Hills Church because of its locality in what was then known as Surrey Hills, an inner suburb of Auckland, New Zealand, the Ponsonby church was the first Seventh-day Adventist church building in Australasia and has been a center of worship in the city of Auckland since 1887.
Agnes Poroi, fluent in four languages, served the church as a translator and editor for the Eastern Polynesian magazines, Sabbath School lessons, and books at the Rarotongan press in the Cook Islands and the Papeete Press in Tahiti.
John James Potter was involved in the publishing work of the Seventh-day Adventist Church and manager of the Signs Publishing Company.
Prescott College operates on three separate campuses in the city of Adelaide, South Australia.
Cecil Herbert Pretyman was an Adventist literature evangelist, financial administrator, chaplain, and pastor in South Africa and Australia.
William Prismall was a founding member of the Melbourne Seventh-day Adventist Church and was influential in the breakfast cereal industry.
The first Seventh-day Adventist post-elementary school set up in New Zealand, Pukekura Training School ran both high-school and training-school courses from 1908 to 1912.
George Quinlin was the first Australian Aborigine to be ordained as a Seventh-day Adventist pastor. He ministered in churches around Australia over a period of 29 years, during which time he was one of the pioneers of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Ministries (ATSIM), first as a department of the South Pacific Division, then as the Australian Union Conference.
Jack Radley served the Seventh-day Adventist Church caring for the mission boats in the island missions, working primarily as a captain, engineer, carpenter, and slip manager.
Kata Ragoso, an Adventist Solomon Islander pastor, held numerous leadership positions in the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Solomon Islands. He was the superintendent of the church from 1942 to 1945 during the of World War II. He represented the Australasian Division at the General Conference Session in San Francisco in 1936 and again in 1954.
Alipati Rainima, a Fijian Seventh-day Adventist, commenced working as a literature evangelist in 1903. He pioneered many new areas in Fiji in his nine years of service for the Church before he died.
Frank Graham Rampton was a literature evangelist, pastor, evangelist, departmental director, and administrator who, together with his wife Florence, worked in New Zealand and Australia.
Howard Francis Rampton served the Seventh-day Adventist church in literature evangelism, pastoral evangelism, and as a departmental director at conference, division and General Conference level.
Molly Rankin was an author and missionary spouse who, while holding no formal position herself, found many ways to provide valuable service in the places where her husband was assigned. Rankin was known for her enthusiasm, passion and ability to organize anyone or anything.
Rarama Publishing House operated in Suva, Fiji, between 1969 and 1981. Throughout its history, the institution was interchangeably referred to as Rarama Press, Rarama Publishing House, and Trans-Pacific Publishers.
Na Rarama (The Light) was a Seventh-day Adventist message magazine prepared and mostly printed in Fiji for Fijians in the Fijian language between 1900 and 1955.
Gapi Ravu was the first Seventh-day Adventist minister from among the Aroma people of Papua.
Albert Read was a missionary from the United States who traveled to the Pacific Islands on the first voyage of the Pitcairn and worked primarily in the Islands of Tahiti before pursuing education and work in the medical field.
Fred and Marion Reekie were pioneer literature evangelists in the early years of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Australia. They worked in Western Australia, New South Wales, Queensland, and Victoria.