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Barnabas Pana was one of the first ordained Solomon Islanders, and he worked over 40 years as a missionary among his people and was integral to the translation of the Marovo Bible.
South Pacific Division Biography Groundbreakers Missionaries
Panama is located in the southeast of Central America. Adventism reached Panama in the late nineteenth century.
Panama Adventist Institute or Instituto Adventista Panameño (IAP) is a secondary level educational boarding institution within the Seventh-day Adventist Church educational system. For over 70 years, IAP has offered a solid education based on spiritual values, and a strong academic curriculum. It is the only boarding institution in the Panama Union Mission’s territory.
Panama Union Mission is one of 24 unions of the Inter-American Division (IAD) and serves the entire country of Panama with a population of more than four million people.
Fernando Gomera Pangca was an Adventist missionary, teacher, and administrator from the Philippines.
Papa’aroa Adventist College is located at Titikaveka, on Raratonga, Cook Isands. It offers classes from elementary level to grade 10. It is administered by the Cook Islands Mission, a mission organization in the New Zealand Pacific Union Conference, South Pacific Division.
Papua Mission of Seventh-day Adventist Indonesia, formerly known as Irian Jaya SDA Mission of Indonesia, is located on the island of Papua, perched like a giant bird above Australia.
Papua New Guinea is located between 0 and 10 degrees south of the equator, to the north of Australia.
South Pacific Division Papua New Guinea Country (Based on SDA membership)
The Papua New Guinea Union Mission, established in 1972, is the administrative body of the Seventh-day Adventist Church which has oversight of the entities and activities of the Church in Papua New Guinea.
The Pará-Amapá Mission (Missão Pará-Amapá or MPA) is an administrative unit of the Seventh-day Adventist Church located in the territory of the North Brazil Union Mission (União Norte Brasileira or UNB).
Paracentral El Salvador Conference is a part of El Salvador Union Mission in the Inter-American Division of Seventh-day Adventists.
The Paraguay Adventist University is an educational institution of the Seventh-day Adventist Church that operates in the territory of the Paraguay Union of Churches Mission.
The Paraguay Union of Churches Mission, an administrative unit of the Seventh-day Adventist Church within the territory of the South American Division, has its administrative offices in the city of Asunción, Paraguayan Republic.
Georges Comlavi Paraïso was the founding elder of the second Seventh-day Adventist Church in Lomé, Togo. A great singer, he founded the first Adventist quartet in Togo and played a pioneering role in Adventist music in Togo.
Parana Adventist College (Instituto Adventista Paranaense, IAP) offers early childhood, elementary, high school, and undergraduate education. It belongs to the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Brazil and is part of the worldwide Adventist education network. It operates in the mission field of the South Brazil Union.
Alexander Fyodorovich Parasey was an Adventist pastor, translator, and church administrator in Ukraine.
Earl Jennings Parchment, pastor, evangelist, department director, and administrator, was born December 31, 1919, in the picturesque rural district of South Field, Saint Elizabeth, Jamaica. He was the last of seven children born to Ira and Earline Parchment.
Arthur Frederick Parker was a pastor who gave over 41 years of service to the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Together with his first wife Muriel, he served in New South Wales and the Solomon Islands. With his second wife Dorothy, a physician, he served in the Solomon Islands and Victoria, Australia.
Calvin and Myrtle Parker devoted 35 years to exceptionally effective service as missionaries in the South Pacific region.
Harry and Irene Parker were American missionaries to China from 1916 to 1935.