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Nelson Schwantes, pastor, administrator, and evangelist was born on January 8, 1903, in the city of Cachoeira do Sul, state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
Siegfried Júlio Schwantes was a pastor, professor, archaeologist, and writer from Brazil. As a theology and sciences professor, he taught in ten institutions across five continents. He worked in Brazil, Perú, United States, Lebanon, France, Espanha, Mexico, Australia, and Rwanda.
Richard William Schwarz was a history professor, author, and educational administrator.
Seventh-day Adventists accept the value of science and seek to understand science, and also accept and seek to understand Scripture. Since its beginning, the church has a history of searching for the appropriate interaction between these two sources.
Alma J. Scott, a prominent Washington, D.C., social reformer, served as vice-chair of the Committee for the Advancement of the Worldwide Work Among Colored Seventh-day Adventists that helped bring about landmark change in church race relations during the mid-1940s.
Helen May Scott, an educational missionary, entered Chosen (Korea) as the fourth of the missionaries for the educational work of the Korean Adventist Church. She was the longest missionary in Korea, serving for 32 years.
Northern Asia-Pacific Division Biography Groundbreakers Missionaries Women
Henry Scott was a printer who came as one of 11 individuals to commence the work of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Australia and the South Pacific. He was one of the founders of the Echo Publishing Company in Melbourne and the printer of The Bible Echo and Signs of the Times. He remained in Australia for seven years before returning to America to work with the forerunner of Pacific Press.
Lida Funk Scott, heiress to the Funk & Wagnalls fortune, found a role for herself by investing her money in the advancement of Adventist work in the then-underprivileged Southeastern United States. She became a devoted follower of Edward A. Sutherland and his work in Madison, Tennessee, and ultimately, due to their need for physicians, gave major financial support to help the struggling young College of Medical Evangelists (now Loma Linda University) attain full Grade A accreditation.
Loron Allen Scott was a pioneer Adventist colporteur with Abram La Rue (1822-1903) to the Hawaiian Islands, then also called the Sandwich Islands.
One of Adventism’s first Oakwood-educated ministers, Sydney Scott was a prominent leader in the rise of Adventism among African Americans in the South and Midwest.
Walter Matthew Rhodes Scragg was an Australian Seventh-day Adventist evangelist and administrator who worked in Australia and New Zealand.
Walter Scragg, born in New Zealand, served the Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) Church as an evangelist, broadcaster, college principal, departmental director, and administrator. He spent 13 years at the General Conference headquarters in Washington, D.C., and was president of both the Northern European/West Africa Division and the South Pacific Division of Seventh-day Adventists.
Cord Ackman Scriven was an Adventist pastor and church administrator in the United States.
William Henry Sebastian, a pioneer of the black Adventist work, joined the work of the Southern Missionary Society led J. Edson White in 1900, and later ministered in the Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and Virginia conferences.
Andreas Seefried was the first Adventist missionary worker in the Bulgarian territory.
Inter-European Division Biography Groundbreakers Missionaries
Fred H. Seeney, pastor-evangelist, raised up the earliest Black Adventist congregations in Delaware and Maryland, and was prominent in the early development of the church’s work in Washington, D.C.
The Publishing work in South-East European Union Conference (SEEUC) is made up of three entities: 1) Publishing House “Preporod” (established in 1919, situated in Radoslava Grujića 4, Belgrade, Serbia); 2) Printing House “Euro Dream” (established in 2008, situated in Industrijska zona bb, Nova Pazova, Serbia); and 3) Bookstore “Knjigolovka” (established in 2016, situated in Njegoševa 19, Belgrade, Serbia).
Trans-European Division Serbia Publishing House/Media Institution
Damari Namdori Kangalu Sefue was the first native Tanzanian woman to obtain a teaching certificate. Damari inspired young women to go to school, demonstrating that women can excel if given an opportunity.
East-Central Africa Division Biography Educators Groundbreakers Women
Moses Segatwa was one of the first five Rwandans to be baptized in Rwanda and the first Rwandan to be ordained as a pastor in 1934. He also worked with David Elie Delhove, the pioneer founder of Gitwe, the first Seventh-day Adventist Mission Station in Rwanda.
Segero Dispensary is an Adventist health facility in Western Kenya that opened in 1975.