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Upper Myanmar Adventist Seminary (UMAS) is a coeducational boarding institution located at Siyin, Gyothonbin Block 1, Bogyoke Road, Kalay.
The Upper Myanmar Mission is an administrative unit of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Myanmar in the Southern Asia-Pacific Division.
Ernest Hugo Vijsma was a minister, administrator, educator, and builder in many different places in Indonesia and in Australia.
Noble B. Vining, Jr., was a publishing house manager, editor, and author of several books. He served as the second manager of Philippine Publishing House (1950-1952).
Heber Herbert Votaw was a minister, missionary, professor, Harding Administration executive, and religious liberty leader.
Werner Konrad Vyhmeister, a visionary, minister, administrator, and educator, whose services spanned over six decades, left a major impact on the Adventist Church’s mission throughout America, Asia, and Africa.
Anton Waworoendeng was a pastor and a church administrator, and he was the first Indonesian to serve as the union president in East Indonesia.
Formerly West Kalimantan Attached District, West Kalimatan Region was organized in 2000 and renamed in 2017. It is a part of the West Indonesia Union Mission in the Southern Asia-Pacific Ocean Division of Seventh-day Adventists. Its office is in Pontianak, West Kalimantan, Indonesia.
West Papua Mission was formerly part of Papua Mission organized in 2013. It is located on the western tip of Papua Island whose capital city is Manokwari. It is under East Indonesia Union Conference. It comprises 12 regencies and 1 municipality such as Sorong, Fakfak, Kaimana, Teluk, Bintuni, Sorong Selatan, Raja Ampat, Manokwari, Manokwari Selatan, Teluk, Wondama, Tambrauw, Maybrat, and the city of Sorong.
Western Mindanao Adventist Academy, formerly Western Mindanao Academy, a secondary boarding school, belongs to the worldwide Seventh-day Adventist educational system. The main campus is located in Dumingag, Zamboanga del Sur, Philippines, and the annex campus are in Ozamiz City, Misamis Occidental, Philippines. It operates in the territory of Western Mindanao Conference, under the South Philippine Union Conference.
Western Mindanao Conference (formerly Western Mindanao Mission) is part of South Philippine Union Conference in the Southern Asia-Pacific Division of the Seventh-day Adventists.
Louis Marie Dirk Wortman, commonly known as L.M.D. Wortman, was an educator, and school administrator, who together with his wife Sibylla Habel Wortman, a nurse, served as missionaries to Indonesia.
Yangon Adventist Seminary (YAS) is a Christian institution owned and operated by Myanmar Union Mission of the Seventh-day Adventist Church since 1975. The school is located in Bahan Township, Yangon, Myanmar.
The Yangon Central Seventh-day Adventist church was the first congregation to be organized in Burma (now Myanmar).
Yangon Mission (formerly Yangon Adventist Mission) was established in 1977 as Yangon Attached District. Yangon Mission is a part of the Myanmar Union Mission in the Southern Asia-Pacific Division of Seventh-day Adventists.
Rodulfo Regulacion Yap, known more to his colleagues as Rudy, was a student colporteur, evangelist, pastor, church planter, stewardship promoter, and church administrator.
John Spain Yates was a missionary in Java, Indonesia, and administrator in the United States.
Youngberg Memorial Adventist Hospital, a medical institution situated in Singapore, was named in memory of Gustavus B. Youngberg, a missionary to North Borneo.
Gustavus Benson Youngberg Jr. was a nurse, obstetrician, and gynecologist. He served as a missionary physician to the Far East Division.
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Gustavus Benson Youngberg was a pioneer Adventist missionary among the headhunters on the Tatau River of Sarawak in Borneo—the third-largest island in the world, which is now politically divided among three countries: Indonesia, Brunei, and Malaysia.
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