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Lionel Harold Turner was an educator at various academies and spent 16 years at Avondale College Mathematics and English departments.
William Gordon Turner was an Adventist pastor and administrator who held numerous administrative positions in the Seventh-day Adventist Church. He served as president of the Australasian Division based in Sydney, and also a vice president of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists based in Washington, D.C.
Robert and Emily Tutty were pioneering missionaries in Dovele (Solomon Islands), Bougainville, and the Admiralty Islands (New Guinea). He was the first Seventh-day Adventist missionary to New Guinea.
South Pacific Division Biography Groundbreakers Missionaries Couples
Tuvalu is an attached district of the Trans-Pacific Union Mission of the South Pacific Division. Its headquarters are on Funafuti Island, Tuvalu.
South Pacific Division Tuvalu Country (Based on SDA membership)
Carl Ulrich, an Adventist minister, held a number of significant managerial and leadership positions within the denomination in Australia over a timespan of almost forty years.
Laura Louisa Lee Ulrich Smith was a nurse, educator, and promoter of the Adventist health message and lifestyle.
Stuart Uttley worked in his early years of ministry in public evangelism, and the later years in local conference and union conference administration.
Vailoa Laymen’s Training School was operated by the Samoa Mission at various times between 1917 and 1986.
Valuegenesis is the study of faith development and values formation in Seventh-day Adventist youth.
Jacob Van de Groep was a pioneering literature evangelist Southeast Asia. He also worked in Australia for a short time.
South Pacific Division Biography Groundbreakers Missionaries
Vanuatu, formerly known as the New Hebrides, consists of thirteen main islands and many smaller islands all located in the southwest of the Pacific Ocean.
South Pacific Division Vanuatu Country (Based on SDA membership)
The Vanuatu Mission is a growing mission in the territory of the Trans-Pacific Union Mission of the South Pacific Division. Its headquarters are in Port Vila, Vanuatu. Before independence the mission was known as the New Hebrides Mission.
Vatuvonu Adventist High School is a coeducational day school and boarding college located on the southern shores of Buca (pronounced Bootha) Bay on the island of Vanua Levu, Fiji.
Pastor Dudley Vaughan was distinguished as a pioneer worker among Aboriginal people in Western Australia for the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
Luise Vetter held a number of positions in the institutions of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Australia. She was best known as the matron of the Australasian Missionary College (Avondale). In 1997, she received the Centenary Medal for her contribution to the College.
The Victorian Conference is a constituent of the Australian Union Conference. Its headquarters are located in Nunawading, Victoria, Australia. Its unincorporated activities are governed by a constitution which is based on the model conference constitution of the South Pacific Division of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.
Ronald Arthur Vince was a minister and church administrator in England and youth leader in the South Pacific Division of Seventh-day Adventists.
Wallis and Futuna Islands are French overseas territories located in the South Pacific Ocean. The Seventh-day Adventist Church established a presence in the islands in 2007.
South Pacific Division Wallis and Futuna Islands Country (Based on SDA membership)
Gustav Adolph Wantzlick was a pastor and church administrator. Wantzlick and his wife, Margaret, were missionaries to the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia).
The Warburton Sanitarium and Hospital operated under a number of names for 91 years between 1910 and 2001. It commenced as a health home and was sold in 2001 as a hospital and health resort.