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Pudukkottai-Thirumayam Region is one of the newest administrative church units in the Southeast India Union Section, which is a part of the Southern Asia Division of Seventh-day Adventists. It was organized in 2006. Its headquarters is in Pudukottai, Tamil Nadu, India.
The Puerto Rican Union Conference was established in 1994 when the Antillian Union was divided.
The first Seventh-day Adventist post-elementary school set up in New Zealand, Pukekura Training School ran both high-school and training-school courses from 1908 to 1912.
Qatar is a low-lying desert peninsula extending about 100 miles (161 kilometers) into the Persian Gulf. It currently has an area of 4,473 square miles (11,586 square kilometers) after settling land disputes with Bahrain and Saudi Arabia in the 2000s. The population (2020) is 2.4 million. Most Qataris are Arabs, adhering to the Sunni branch of Islam, and Arabic is the official language of the country. An estimated 88% of the population of Qatar is made up of expatriate workers.
Middle East and North Africa Union Mission Qatar Country (Based on SDA membership)
Martha May Taylor Quantock served as an officer of the India Mission/Union Mission from its inception in 1895 to 1915.
Quicuco Mission is one of the pioneering Seventh-day Adventist mission stations in southern Angola.
Southern Africa-Indian Ocean Division Church Administrative Unit
Willis B. Quigley, pastor, church administrator, and associate secretary of the General Conference Ministerial and Stewardship Association, was born August 17, 1922, in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, to John and Hettie Quigley. He married Ellinor Gainer in 1943. They had one son, Robert Lynn (b. 1949).
Paul Elmore Quimby (Chinese name 孔保羅, pinyin Kǒng Bǎoluó) served the Seventh-day Adventist Church as an educator in New York State, China, Tennessee, and California from 1922 to 1971 and beyond.
George Quinlin was the first Australian Aborigine to be ordained as a Seventh-day Adventist pastor. He ministered in churches around Australia over a period of 29 years, during which time he was one of the pioneers of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Ministries (ATSIM), first as a department of the South Pacific Division, then as the Australian Union Conference.
Rollin D. Quinn was a minister, conference and union conference president, General Conference field secretary, and author.
Roberto Mendes Rabello was a pastor, evangelist, and pioneer of the Voice of Prophecy radio programs in Brazil.
Radio Lira, a non-profit organization in Costa Rica, offers its audience varied spiritual programming that includes blocks of music and messages by dynamic speakers.
Jack Radley served the Seventh-day Adventist Church caring for the mission boats in the island missions, working primarily as a captain, engineer, carpenter, and slip manager.
Julius Christensen Raft was a Danish pastor, evangelist, and administrator. He served as president of the Danish Conference, from 1906 to 1908, and the Scandinavian Union, from 1908 to 1922. He was a field secretary in the European Division from 1922 to 1928, and a field secretary of the Southern European Division until 1932. For many years he was chairman of the Scandinavian Philanthropic Society and owner of Skodsborg Sanitarium, which grew to be the largest health institution within the Adventist Church during his time.
Kata Ragoso, an Adventist Solomon Islander pastor, held numerous leadership positions in the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Solomon Islands. He was the superintendent of the church from 1942 to 1945 during the of World War II. He represented the Australasian Division at the General Conference Session in San Francisco in 1936 and again in 1954.
Raichur-Bellary Region was organized in 2004 and is a part of the South-Central India Union Section in the Southern Asia Division of Seventh-day Adventists.
Alipati Rainima, a Fijian Seventh-day Adventist, commenced working as a literature evangelist in 1903. He pioneered many new areas in Fiji in his nine years of service for the Church before he died.
Arthur John Raitt was a British missionary educator in Southern Africa who became a teacher at Solusi College. He was diagnosed with cancer and died young at the age of only 27. However, he greatly impacted the students he taught in the fleeting years of his life.
East-Central Africa Division Biography Educators Missionaries
William Raitt and his wife Hilda were British missionaries to East Africa, serving in Tanganyika and then Kenya in later years. He was the founder of the Kenya Coast Mission in 1934 and was responsible for the establishment and spread of the Adventist faith in the Kenyan coast.
East-Central Africa Division Biography Missionaries Couples Groundbreakers
Formerly named the Madhya Bharat Section, the Rajasthan Section is a part of the Northern India Union Section in the Southern Asia Division of Seventh-day Adventists. Its headquarters is in Jaipur, Rajasthan, India.