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Saurashtra Region is a part of the Western India Union Section in the Southern Asia Division of Seventh-day Adventists. It was organized in 2004. Its headquarters is in Rajkot, Gujarat, India.
In July 1901 Friedensau, Germany, was the venue for the consideration of changes within the Adventist Church in Europe. A camp meeting began on July 18 during which the 19 delegates from the Scandinavian countries formed what was to become the Scandinavian Union Conference, comprising the Swedish, Norwegian, and Danish Conferences, and the mission fields of Finland, Iceland, and Greenland.
Wilhelm and Olga Schaeffler worked as missionaries for the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Argentina, and the United States.
Børge Schantz’s denominational service included pastoral work, church administration, teaching, and lecturing at colleges and universities. He set up a global center for Islamic Studies and taught Adventist-Muslim relations. He wrote books and articles that had worldwide readership.
Mimi Scharffenberg was a Bible instructor, translator, editor, and pioneer missionary, the first single female Adventist missionary to Korea.
Inter-European Division Biography Groundbreakers Missionaries Women
The Scheer Memorial Adventist Hospital is located in Banepa, a small village 18 miles east of Nepal’s capital, Kathmandu. Situated near the Himalayan Mountains, it lies in a fertile valley at an elevation of nearly 5,000 feet. Named after a New Jersey couple who donated money for the institution, it was founded in June 1957 by Dr. and Mrs. Stanley Sturges.
Herman and Lydia Schell were missionaries in Indonesia, Korea and the Phillippines. The Schells gave their life to mission service, enduring difficulties and imprisonment during the war years.
Southern Asia-Pacific Division Biography Missionaries Died/Imprisoned for Faith
Fred E. Schlehuber was a missionary to Kenya, Tanganyika, and the Far East.
Arturo Schmidt was a pastor, ministerial secretary, and evangelist in South America and Europe as well as a missionary among the Muslims.
Isaac Chester Schmidt was a colporteur, pastor, teacher, church leader, school administrator, and missionary who served in Indonesia.
Santiago Schmidt was an Adventist pastor, missionary, and administrator from Argentina.
Chester Clarence Schneider was a pastor, physician, and administrator in South America.
Charles Schowe, in addition to holding a number of other portfolios, including a brief time at Atlantic Union College in the United States, gave the majority of his service on the faculty of the Avondale School for Christian Workers (ASCW), Australia. He was instrumental in raising the academic profile and standards at the school.
Karl Schroeter was a German Adventist missionary to China. He directed the work in the Chekiang province, ministered in the Anhui and Jiangsu provinces, and served as chaplain and instructor at the Shanghai Sanatorium.
George William Schubert (also known as George William) was an evangelist, pastor, administrator, and general field secretary of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.
Walter Schubert was a pastor, administrator, ministerial secretary, and a great Adventist evangelist in the South American Division and the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.
Heinrich Franz Schuberth was a teacher, minister, editor, and president of several conferences, pioneering the work in various parts of Germany.
Henry Schultz was one of the pioneers of the Adventist work among the German-speaking Americans.
Bernardo Einrich Schünemann contributed more than 35 years as an administrator to the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Brazil and 26 years as manager of the Brazil Publishing House.
Arno Schwantes was a professor and administrator in Brazil.