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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.
Inter-American Division Biography Groundbreakers Missionaries
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.
David Paulson was a medical missionary physician and social reformer who, with his wife, Dr. Mary Wild Paulson, led an array of humanitarian endeavors in Chicago and founded Hinsdale Sanitarium in the city’s western suburbs.
North American Division Biography Groundbreakers Medical Workers
Mary Wild Paulson, M.D., and her husband, David Paulson, M.D., co-founded Hinsdale Sanitarium near Chicago and led a multi-faceted work on behalf of the city’s poor and disadvantaged.
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.
Paul N. Pearce was a college professor, a promoter of Adventist radio in its earliest years, an editor, and an active lay member of the church after his relatively brief career in Adventist denominational employment.
Emily Catherine Clemons was an educator, author, poet, and from 1844 to 1845 a Millerite “laborer” exhorting people to be ready for Christ’s impending return.
Walter Leonard Pearson, Jr. was an African-American pastor, media evangelist, and denominational administrator, and the first Seventh-day Adventist preacher to be inducted into the Martin Luther King, Jr. Board of Preachers and Collegium of Scholars at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia.
Sarah Peck was an educational pioneer and curriculum author, and a literary assistant to Ellen G. White.
North American Division Biography Educators Groundbreakers Women
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.
A devoted church leader, Pein Kyi was an important figure of second-generation Adventists in Myanmar.
Rolando Enrique Peinado Hernández was an Adventist mathematician and educator from Colombia.
Penfigo Adventist Hospital (Hospital Adventista do Penfigo or HAP) is a medical missionary institution of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Brazil and is part of the Adventist Health International Network.
Ronald Ernest Pengilley gave forty-six years of service to the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the South Pacific Division. He is best remembered as the manager of the Signs Publishing Company in Victoria for almost eighteen years (1962–1980).
Antônio Leôncio da Penha was a literature evangelist and pioneer Adventist in Bahia, Brazil.
Peninsular Malaysia is the western part of Malaysia, located between Thailand in the North and Singapore in the South with a total land area of 130,590 square kilometers.