Browse Articles
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) 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 worldwide education network, it seeks to offer integral education in accordance with the values of Adventist education. The academy is located in Braganey, 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.
Elisha Paul was an Adventist pastor, evangelist, and administrator in Myanmar.
Montana Paul was a teacher, pastor, principal, mission president, and union department director.
Pe Yee was an Adventist pastor, administrator, and writer in Myanmar for more than thirty years.
Gerald and Winifred Peacock were career missionaries in the South Pacific Division of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, serving in a variety of roles in Papua, New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, and the New Hebrides (Vanuatu today). Gerald Peacock was later the leader of the developing work of the Church in the northern part of the state of Queensland, Australia. Their final assignment was four years together developing the Aboriginal work at the Mona Mona Mission in North Queensland.
Sarah Peck was an educational pioneer and curriculum author, and a literary assistant to Ellen G. White.
Emanuel W. Pedersen lived on four continents and in six different countries while serving at all levels of the Adventist Church organization from colporteur, teacher, and pastor in his homeland to general field secretary at the General Conference. In his lifetime of more than 100 years, he saw his Church grow from fewer than 100,000 members to more than 13 million.