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Allan and Ruth Tilley both graduated from the Sydney Sanitarium and Hospital as nurses.
Charles Tinworth was an Adventist missionary and Sanitarium Health Food (SHF) Company Manager.
Togoba Hansenide Colony was opened in 1950 in order to treat cases of leprosy or Hansen’s disease in the Western Highlands of Papua New Guinea.
A part of the South Pacific Division of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, Tokelau is within the administrative area of the Samoa-Tokelau Mission in the Trans Pacific Union Mission. With a population of only around 1500 people living on three Pacific coral atolls, Tokelau is one of the smallest and most remote nations in the world, located approximately 500 kilometers north of Samoa.
South Pacific Division Tokelau Country (Based on SDA membership)
Athal Tolhurst was born in Tonga of missionary parents. He was a pastor, evangelist and administrator who was for a time a Union President, Secretary of the South Pacific Division and Under-Secretary of the General Conference. He was married to Linley (Willis), and together they served the Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) Church for 45 years.
Hubert Tolhurst was an early Adventist missionary to Tonga, teacher, pastor, administrator, and poet.
South Pacific Division Biography Groundbreakers Missionaries Martyrs/Prisoners for Faith
Tonga is a Polynesian kingdom of approximately 170 islands divided into three main groups—Tongatapu in the south, the Ha’apai group in the center, and the Vava’u group in the north.
South Pacific Division Tonga Country (Based on SDA membership)
Tonga was a charter member and deacon of the Titikaveka church, Cook Islands.
The territory of the Tonga Mission is comprised of the Kingdom of Tonga. It reports to the Trans Pacific Union Mission which is based in Tamavua, Suva, Fiji Islands.
Evelyn Totenhofer was known affectionately as Nurse Totenhofer. She served as a nurse at the time of the establishment of the Batuna Mission Station in the Solomon Islands, and then for thirty years as the nurse for Pitcairn Island.
Brian Townend was a principal, teacher trainer, and curriculum supervisor who is now remembered primarily for his many years of service as a librarian at Avondale College (now Avondale University). He and his wife, Daphne, established or upgraded 21 libraries, mostly in schools across the Pacific.
Max and Eunice Townend spent three years as missionaries to India. They subsequently served in the Australasian Division, based in Australia, and the Far Eastern Division, based in Singapore.
Walter Austin Townend was a Seventh-day Adventist pastor, author, teacher and administrator from New Zealand who had broad influence in the South Pacific Division.
The Trans Pacific Union Mission (TPUM) is a constituent union of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists and is one of four unions in the South Pacific Division of the General Conference (SPD).
The Trans-Australian Union Conference (TAUC), formerly known until 1977 as the Trans-Commonwealth Union Conference, was a constituent union conference of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists from 1949 until 2000, in the territory of the South Pacific Division of the General Conference.
The Trans-Tasman Union Conference (TTUC) was a constituent union conference of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, in the territory of the South Pacific Division of the General Conference.
Tuaine Solomona was a native Cook Islander and missionary who helped Septimus Carr and other Seventh-day Adventist missionaries to Papua.
South Pacific Division Biography Missionaries Martyrs/Prisoners for Faith
The Cook Islands Maori or Rarotongan-language magazine, Tua tua –mou [Truth], commenced publication in 1907 and ceased around 1947.
Charles and Eulalia Tucker were missionaries at Aore in the New Hebrides and at Batuna in the Solomon Islands in the years leading up to World War II.
Alan Keith Tulloch was very highly regarded Adventist surgeon at the Sydney Sanitarium and Hospital (now Sydney Adventist Hospital).