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Margaret Rowen claimed to have the prophetic gift soon after the death of Ellen G. White (1827-1915) and led a breakaway group that took the name “Reformed Seventh-day Adventists.” She was discredited by failed predictions, exposure of fraudulent claims, and imprisonment for an attempted murder of a former follower, and her movement virtually disappeared after about a decade.
Neil Wilson Rowland, an Adventist educator and administrator, was born in Singapore on July 5, 1919 to James Wilson and Gertrude Solomon Shaffer Rowland (1886–1968; 1886–1981).
Wells Allen Ruble was a physician, college professor, college president, medical and health administrator, and medical superintendent.
Edmund Rudge and his wife Gladys trained as nurses but served the Adventist Church in pastoral ministry in Australia, Fiji, and Great Britain. Edmund Rudge became the president of the Australasian Division in 1939 and held that position during the years of World War II.
Philip Bulpit Rudge was an Australian Seventh-day Adventist businessman who established the Church’s health-food business in Australia as a financially viable concern. He later became an evangelist and pioneered the Adventist missions for the Aboriginal people of Queensland and New South Wales.
George H. Rue, MD, missionary physician, led in developing widely respected Adventist medical institutions in Korea despite repeated setbacks and forbidding circumstances during the years of World War II and the Korean War.
North American Division Biography Groundbreakers Medical Workers
Pedro de Oliveira Ruela was a missionary physician from Brazil.
South American Division Biography Missionaries Died/Imprisoned for Faith
Aubrey Henry Rulkoetter, an Adventist pastor, teacher, and administrator, was born on February 18, 1891, in Saint Louis, Missouri.
George Rusa, a Solomon Islander, was significantly involved in the care, maintenance and operation of the fleet of mission vessels operated by the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Solomon Islands and New Guinea Islands during the second half of the twentieth century.
Rusangu Rural Health Centre is a grant-aided health institution of the Southern Zambia Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.
Rusangu Secondary School is a Seventh-day Adventist boarding school under the South Zambia Conference. The school is recognized by the government of Zambia.
Southern Africa-Indian Ocean Division Educational Institutions
Rusangu University is a co-educational institution of higher learning jointly owned and operated by the Northern Zambia Union Conference and the Southern Zambia Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.
Southern Africa-Indian Ocean Division Educational Institutions
It was from the small hill named “Got” in Rusinga Island, Kenya, where missionary A. Watson first ignited the torch of Adventist faith that is now burning in the Suba North and Suba South counties in Kenya.
Soren Ruskjer, minister, home missionary leader, and conference administrator, served as president of the Western Canadian and Southern union conferences in North America.
James and Carolyn Russell were devoted missionaries who spread the gospel though persecuted in several locations around the world.
K. C. Russell, evangelist and conference president, was a prominent leader in Adventist work for religious liberty and in its urban evangelistic initiatives during the first two decades of the 20th century.
Riley Russell (露說, Rho Seol) was the first medical missionary to enter Korea as a medical doctor. He devoted himself to missionary work and medical service in Korea for 15 years as the director of Soonan Dispensary-Hospital, the head of the Workers’ Training School, and the director of the West Chosen Mission.
Northern Asia-Pacific Division Biography Groundbreakers Missionaries Medical Workers Couples
Russia is a country in Eastern Europe and Northern Asia, which for most of the twentieth century was part of the communist Soviet Union. Today, aside from other Christians, the Seventh-day Adventist Church has a small representation in the country.
The term "Samizdat" is used as a symbol for reproducing the literature works censored by the state. The works were often copied in handwriting and then distributed. During the Soviet regime, Adventists were forced to produce "Samizdat" editions of Adventist literature.