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It was said of Ib Jensen that “Ib loves the Faroe Islands and the Faroe Islands love Ib.” He gave 45 years of service as a literature evangelist to the islands.
Svein Karl Birger Johansen was a Norwegian missionary to Scandinavia, West Africa, and the Middle East for almost 40 years.
Odd Jordal was an Adventist pastor and administrator. His great interest in relief and development work led to his appointment as aid coordinator for the Northern European Division of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (NED) and NED’s first ADRA director.
Pastor R. S. Joyce, a pioneer evangelist, served in the British Union Conference, the Central Union Conference, and the Lake Union Conference. Starting as a literature evangelist, Joyce would serve the church as a district pastor and a conference president.
Ernests Klotinsh (Klotiņš) was an Adventist pastor and administrator who led the Church during the oppressive years of the Soviet Communist regime.
In his service for the Seventh-day Adventist Church, Thorvald Kristensen inspired a number of people and left his appreciable impression on the work of the Church in Denmark and West Africa. He worked as Bible teacher, evangelist, pastor, administrator, missionary, and editor. By his side was his faithful wife, Irene, with her pleasant attitude and dignified manners.
Zoltán Andor Tivadar Kubinyi was a Hungarian Adventist pastor during the dark times of the Holocaust. He saved many lives at the cost of his own life.
Trans-European Division Hungary Biography Died/Imprisoned for Faith
Herbert Camden and Lillian Lacey were teachers in Australia in the years of the Australian Mission when there were no Seventh-day Adventist educational institutions yet established. Herbert was also a minister and church administrator.
Don Lale and his wife Ann were Adventist teachers serving as missionaries in Zimbabwe when in 1981 they were brutally murdered by suspected Mozambican rebels in a dawn attack at the school where they taught. The rebels were carrying out reprisals against an attack by South African forces, and the Lales were innocent victims of their rage.
Trans-European Division United Kingdom Biography Missionaries Died/Imprisoned for Faith
Latvian Conference is an administrative unit of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Latvia. It is a part of the Baltic Union Conference in the Trans-Europrean Division of Seventh-day Adventists. Its headquarters is in Riga, Latvia.
A Swedish-American pastor, Gustaf Lindsay served the church as a teacher, youth leader, treasurer, and president.
Lithuanian Conference is a church administrative unit of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Lithuania. It is a part of the Baltic Union Conference in the Trans-European Division of Seventh-day Adventists. It’s headquarters is located in Kaunas, Lithuania.
Alf Lohne served in various leadership positions in the Seventh-day Adventist Church for more than 50 years. Most of the time his influence was felt primarily in the Scandinavian countries and Northern Europe, but as a milepost in his service was his work at the General Conference for the Church in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe during the communist era.
Harry W. Lowe served as associate and field secretaries at the General Conference, union president, mission president, administrator, and managing editor of Ministry magazine.
Elsa Luukkanen was an Adventist musician, pastor, and evangelist in Finland. Her ministry is credited with gathering large audiences, and it resulted in baptizing hundreds of converts.
As an evangelist and leader in the Adventist Church in Denmark and Norway for many years, Jens Madsen was well known and appreciated for the contribution he made. In a time when secularism and moral decline increasingly impacted the society around him, he was steady like a rock, when the church needed a calm and firm hand at the helm. His focus on the soon coming of Christ, and the hope we have in Him, characterized his leadership and preaching.
John Gottlieb Matteson (b. Johannes Gottlieb Mathiesen) was a minister, editor, and pioneer missionary in Scandinavia.
Trans-European Division Biography Missionaries Groundbreakers
Constance Mary Maxwell was a missionary to Kenya, arriving in 1920 and serving until her death in 1942. She was the wife of Spencer George Maxwell, who served as superintendent of the East Africa Union before moving to Blantyre after her death in Kenya.
Trans-European Division Biography Died/Imprisoned for Faith Missionaries Women
Spencer Maxwell was a pioneer missionary to East, Central, and Southern Africa. As soon as he arrived in Africa, Spencer Maxwell displayed unusual eagerness to carry out mission work. He established the work in many unentered areas, pioneered many mission stations, fields and conferences, travelled great distances, and braved grave dangers in what would be a four-decade missionary sojourn in Africa.
Trans-European Division Biography Groundbreakers Missionaries
John Alexander McMillan served as president of the British Union Conference, South England Conference and Scottish Mission, departmental leader, director of the Voice of Prophecy, as well as evangelist and pastor.