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Riverside Adventist Academy is the only school managed by the Northeast India Union Section. It is located on 23 acres of land beside the Didram river at Chichotcheng village, P.O. Bajengdoba, North Garo Hills district of Meghalaya, India.
Riverside Hospital was an innovative medical institution in Nashville, Tennessee, dedicated to providing Adventist health care to the African American community.
Andrew Joseph Robbins was a pastor, Bible teacher, a pioneer missionary to China and the Philippines, a professor, a hospital chaplain, evangelist, and church administrator.
Southern Asia-Pacific Division Biography Groundbreakers Missionaries Couples
Frank H. Robbins devoted 37 years to church administration – 19 as president of the Columbia Union Conference and another 18 as president of conferences in the Columbia Union.
Grant Alonzo Roberts was a pioneering missionary, evangelist, pastor, church administrator, and the second president of the Inter-American Division of Seventh-day Adventists from 1936 to 1941.
Inter-American Division Biography Groundbreakers Missionaries Couples
Robert Franklin Roberts and his wife, Jan, served as missionaries in several countries in Africa from 1976 to 1992, until they were called to serve at the Adventist Aviation-Indonesia in the territory of Papua, Indonesia, for more than twenty years. Under Robert’s leadership, Adventist Aviation Indonesia (now Adventist Aviation) developed and expanded.
Vincent L. Roberts, pastor and administrator, was the first African American executive officer of a union conference in the North American Division, serving as treasurer of the Southwestern Union. Prior to that he was the first secretary-treasurer of the Southwest Region Conference and subsequently the conference’s president for 13 years.
Alfred and Carrie Robie from North America were pioneers of the Avondale Health Retreat in Cooranbong, New South Wales, Australia. Subsequently they were moved to a similar facility that was being established in Rockhampton, Queensland but the enterprise was short-lived and they returned to the United States.
South Pacific Division Biography Groundbreakers Missionaries Couples
Mario Robinson Kemble was a renowned musician, pastor and church administrator in Colombia, Venezuela, and the United States.
Asa T. Robinson served as an evangelist and administrator in the United States and Australia and led out in organizing the Adventist work in South Africa.
Christopher Robinson was a British-born Seventh-day Adventist pioneer in southern Africa.
Dores Alanzo Robinson was an evangelist, educator, and administrator who served in South Africa, England, and India during the early period of Seventh-day Adventist world mission.
North American Division Biography Educators Missionaries Died/Imprisoned for Faith
Loretta Farnsworth is credited with being the first Seventh-day Adventist Bible worker. She served as a pioneer city mission worker, evangelist, pioneer missionary to South Africa and Australia, chaplain, and religion teacher.
North American Division Biography Groundbreakers Missionaries Women
Milton Robison was an American missionary educator, administrator, and evangelist who dedicated much of his career to establishing and developing the education ministry in Africa. He served as the inaugural principal of Helderberg College in South Africa, and later held key positions such as secretary, education secretary, and eventually field secretary for the Southern African Division.
East-Central Africa Division Biography Educators Missionaries
Henry Robson was a long-serving missionary to Tanganyika and Uganda. He and his wife, Ada, helped establish and develop the Adventist mission work in Africa, serving there for 32 years.
Trans-European Division United Kingdom Biography Groundbreakers Missionaries Couples
José Miranda Rocha was a pastor and teacher in Brazil.
Hermann August Rockel, pastor and missionary, was born on August 23, 1877 in the city of Woydehnen, Shatrovo, Russia, son of Ludwig Rockel and Wilhelmine Schulz.
Alfonso Panis Roda was president of Philippine Union College.
Peter Gustavus Rodgers, evangelist and pastor, was one of Adventism’s most effective spokespersons in America’s black urban communities during the first four decades of the twentieth century and a leading voice in the struggle for black equality within the church.
Pavel Rodionov was a Russian by birth and a mission pioneer in Manchuria and Mongolia. In 1949 he transferred to Australia as the first Seventh-day Adventist minister to nurture any of the many groups who had migrated from Europe to Australia after the Second World War. He established the Russian church in Sydney before his premature passing.