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Formerly named the Madhya Bharat Section, the Rajasthan Section is a part of the Northern India Union Section in the Southern Asia Division of Seventh-day Adventists. Its headquarters is in Jaipur, Rajasthan, India.
Located in North Bengal, India, on a strip of land between Bhutan, Nepal and Bangladesh, Raymond Memorial Higher Secondary School is the premier boarding higher secondary institution serving the Northern Union of Seventh-day Adventists.
Riverside Adventist Academy is the only school managed by the Northeast India Union Section. It is located on 23 acres of land beside the Didram river at Chichotcheng village, P.O. Bajengdoba, North Garo Hills district of Meghalaya, India.
Saurashtra Region is a part of the Western India Union Section in the Southern Asia Division of Seventh-day Adventists. It was organized in 2004. Its headquarters is in Rajkot, Gujarat, India.
The Scheer Memorial Adventist Hospital is located in Banepa, a small village 18 miles east of Nepal’s capital, Kathmandu. Situated near the Himalayan Mountains, it lies in a fertile valley at an elevation of nearly 5,000 feet. Named after a New Jersey couple who donated money for the institution, it was founded in June 1957 by Dr. and Mrs. Stanley Sturges.
The story of Adventist education at Hapur began with Milton M. Mattison and his wife Nora who arrived in India in 1912. By January 1917 they had settled in Hapur.
Olaf Alexander Skau, a Norwegian by birth, an American by adoption, chose to be a life-long missionary to Southern Asia Division and was involved in varied responsibilities of the church: teacher, school administrator, departmental director, publishing house manager, and a caring leader of needy children who turned out to be strong workers and leaders of the church.
Ervin Leslie Sorensen served the Seventh-day Adventist Church as an evangelist, teacher, and union president in the Southern Asia Division; as a pastor, principal, and professor in the North American Division; and as a teacher and administrator in the Far Eastern Division.
Organized in 2000 and reorganized in 2006 and 2018, South Bengal Section is a part of Northern India Union Section of the Southern Asia Division of Seventh-day Adventists.
South India Training School was established to train indigenous workers at the high school level for Adventist missions in South India; over time it developed into Spicer College, the flagship institution of the Southern Asia Division. Spicer Adventist University in Pune and Lowry Adventist College in Bangalore both grew from this institution.
South Maharashtra Section is a part of the Western India Union Section in the Southern Asia Division of Seventh-day Adventists. It was organized in 2004 and reorganized in 2011. Its headquarters is in Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India.
South-Central India Union Section is part of the Southern Asia Division of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. South-Central India Union Section was organized in 2001 and reorganized in 2003.
The Southern Asia Division (SUD) is an administrative unit of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. The territory was first organized in 1910 as the India Union Mission, then as a part of the Asiatic Division from 1915 to 1918. It was reorganized in 1919, and in 1920 it became the Southern Asia Division.
Southern Asia Tidings (published as Eastern Tidings from 1902-1917, 1920-1954; India Union Tidings, 1917-1919) is the official organ of the Southern Asia Division printed in English at the Oriental Watchman Publishing House, Pune.
Southwest India Union Section is part of the Southern Asia Division of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. Southwest India Union Section was organized in 2000 and reorganized in 2003.
Spicer Adventist University is the premier educational institution of the Southern Asia Division of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.
Berthold Herbert Stickle served the Seventh-day Adventist church as a teacher, treasurer, and auditor, along with his wife, Alice, who was a teacher, secretary, and editor, in Canada and India.
Albert Floyd Tarr served the Seventh-day Adventist Church as an editor and administrator, while his wife Edna May served as an editor and musician in the South African Division, Southern Asia Division, Northern Europe Division, and later at the General Conference.
Deep Bahadur Thapa served the Seventh-Day Adventist Church as the first Nepali ordained minister and pioneer evangelist, along with his wife, Miron Bala Pandit, a nurse, in Nepal and other parts of northern India, Southern Asia Division.
Kollegal School for Speech and Hearing Impaired is located in a rural setting just outside the town of Kollegal in Karnataka, India. Funded by Asian Aid, Australia, and Child Impact International and operated by the Adventist Church, it is a boarding school with one hundred students.