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Calvin and Myrtle Parker devoted 35 years to exceptionally effective service as missionaries in the South Pacific region.
Philip Albert Parker, along with his wife, Irene, served the Seventh-day Adventist Church as a missionary in Myanmar for 21 years.
Edith (Ward) Parkin was a pioneer of Adventist Education in Australasia. As one of the earliest graduates of Avondale School’s teachers’ training course, Ward made a significant contribution to church school work through the establishment of primary schools in New Zealand and briefly in her work on Nulla Nulla Mission in New South Wales, Australia.
On September 26, 1881, Frederick Parkin was born in Williamstown, Victoria, the son of British immigrants George and Esther (Williamson) Parkin. As a young man, he accepted the Seventh-day Adventist faith and attended the Avondale School for Christian Workers, completing six subjects between 1900 through 1903.
Robert Parks was a missionary in the Philippines where he served in education, administration, evangelism, and music.
Keith Samuel Parmenter, after holding a number of pastoral, evangelistic, and administrative roles, served as the secretary and then president of the Australasian Division.
Highly esteemed author and editor Robert (Bob) H. Parr served the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the South Pacific for 37 years in full-time employment as educator, pastor, and church administrator, and in retirement as part-time writer and prison chaplain. He is best known for his 14 years as editor of the Australasian Record, the 16-page church weekly, and the Signs of the Times, the church’s outreach journal, during the late 1960s and 1970s.
Pasay City Academy (PCA) is a recognized junior high school of Central Luzon Conference under the North Philippine Union Conference in the territory of the Southern Asia Pacific Division. The school is in the heart of Metro Manila, currently situated in the compound of North Philippine Union Conference, Pasay City, Philippines.
Cyril and Marie Jean Pascoe worked for the Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) Church for 33 years, mostly as missionaries in Papua New Guinea, and then spent a further 12 years as self-supporting missionaries in the South Pacific, which enabled them to work in areas closed to the SDA Church.
Martin Pascoe and his wife, Joyce, were Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) missionaries in Papua New Guinea (PNG) for more than 27 years.
James Pascoe served the Adventist Church for over 30 years in various capacities, including president of South New Zealand and Victoria Conferences.
William Henry Pascoe was a pioneer Seventh-day Adventist pastor, missionary, evangelist, and church administrator in New Zealand and Australia from 1901 to 1954.
William Lewis Pascoe held a number of clerical and financial positions in the Australasian Division before becoming an assistant treasurer of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists in Tacoma Park, Washington, D.C.
João Batista Rodrigues dos Passos was a teacher, dean, and pastor from Brazil.
José Rodrigues dos Passos was a pastor, evangelist, administrator, and teacher in Brazil.
The Pastor Manoel Soares Academy (Instituto Educacional Pastor Manoel Soares or IEMS) is an academy that offers early childhood, primary, and secondary education in a boarding and day school system. It is located in the mission field of the South Brazil Union Conference (União Sul-Brasileira or USB) and, although it is not part of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (SDA) worldwide education network, it seeks to offer integral education in accordance with the values of Adventist education. The academy is located on Vila Longuinópolis at Zip Code 85430-000 in the city of Braganey in the state of Paraná, Brazil.
Pathfinder was the name given to two floating clinics that operated sequentially on the Sepik River, Papua New Guinea, beginning in 1965.
Born in Cooranbong, NSW, Arthur was the youngest child of Bertha Emma (née Pocock), who as a girl had known Ellen White in Cooranbong, and William Nelson Patrick.
James Elisha Patterson was the first black Seventh-day Adventist to go out from the United States as a foreign missionary.
Paul Yin Hee Phang was a pastor and administrator in Singapore and Malaysia.