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The Apples of Gold Library was a series of small pamphlets designed to be enclosed with personal correspondence.
The Arabic Union Mission of Seventh-day Adventists had a brief 17-year history (1927-1944).
Middle East and North Africa Union Mission Church Administrative Unit
Jairo Tavares de Araujo, minister, educator, and administrator, was born in 1916 in the city of Timbauba, state of Pernambuco, Brazil.
Wandyr Pires de Araújo was a pastor, administrator, and teacher.
Bender Lawton Archbold was the first native born Inter-American to be president of the Inter-American Division of Seventh-day Adventists, serving from 1970 to 1980, the decade when the division became the fastest growing and the largest of the SDA world divisions. He was also a renowned preacher, dean of men, teacher, academy principal, departmental director, and administrator.
The Office of Archives, Statistics, and Research (ASTR) is an office of the General Conference (GC) of Seventh-day Adventists. While it was founded in 1975 as the Office of Archives and Statistics, ASTR is the successor to the Statistical Secretary’s Office (or department) which was established in 1904. This article covers the full history. ASTR’s current roles include managing the archives and records management program of the GC, collecting and publishing crucial organizational information and statistics, and supporting the research and analysis needs of the Seventh-day Adventist Church’s World Headquarters, particularly strategic planning and executive decision-making by the General Conference officers. ASTR is also responsible for the production of the Encyclopedia of Seventh-day Adventists. A secondary but important role is supporting scholarship and Church researchers throughout the world. Those who are interested in Adventist history and Adventist studies may make use of the General Conference Archives and the Rebok Memorial Library, both of which come under ASTR.
Nikolai Mikhailovich Arefyev served the Seventh-day Adventist Church as a pastor and administrator in the city of Leningrad (now St. Petersburg, Russia) in the 1920s and 1930s.
Júlio Miñán Ares, canvasser, pastor, evangelist, and manager, was born September 17, 1897, in the city of La Coruña, in the state of Galiza, Spain.
Argentina Food Factory (Alimentos Granix or Granix) is a vegetarian food industry of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, located in the territory of the South American Division. Its objective is to promote health through the food industry, starting with the manufacture and commercialization of foods that correspond to the biblical ideal of integral health.
The Argentina Union Conference constitutes an administrative unit of the Seventh-day Adventist Church within the South American Division. It oversees the work of the Adventist Church in the Argentine Republic.
Keith Argraves was an American Seventh-day Adventist who gained fame among Adventists church members during World War II as a medic in the United States Army’s 509th Parachute Infantry Regiment and for surviving internment as a prisoner of war in Italy and Germany.
José Antonio Argueta Pérez was a layman, master guide, youth leader, church builder, and community worker.
Rufino Serapio Arismendi was an important figure in the expansion of the Adventist message among the indigenous people of the territory of Gran Sabana during the twentieth century. He served as a pastor and administrator in the Colombo-Venezuela Union Mission.
Arizona Conference Corporation is a church administrative unit in the Pacific Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.
The Arkansas-Louisiana Conference is an administrative unit of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Southwestern Union Conference.
James Awurade Miezah Arloo was one of the first seven ministers ordained in the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Ghana, and one of the pioneering Adventist workers in the country.
The first Adventist congregations were formed in Armenia by the end of the 19th century.
Euro-Asia Division Armenia Country (Based on SDA membership)
Armenian Field is part of the Euro-Asia Division of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. Armenian Field was organized in 2001, and reorganized in 2020. Its headquarters is located in Yerevan, Armenia.
Mary Mortensen Tripp Armitage was a Bible worker, foster mother to Ellen White’s granddaughters, and pioneer missionary to Africa.
Frank Benjamin Armitage was an Adventist minister and missionary in Africa.