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Harold Douglas Singleton, Sr., served as a Seventh-day Adventist minister, editor, church administrator, and regional conference pioneer.
Musa araap Sino was a pioneer Adventist in the Tendwo area of southern Nandi, Kenya, and the first Terik Adventist.
Sint Eustatius is an island in the northern Leeward Islands southeast of the Virgin Islands. The Adventist message reached the island in 1920 through the efforts of Clifton Garfield van Putten and his wife, Maude.
The Adventist message reached the island in 1940. Adventist churches on the French side (Saint-Martin) are in the territory of French Antilles-Guiana Union Conference, and those on the Dutch side (Sint Maarten) are in the territory of Caribbean Union Conference
Inter-American Division Saint Martin Country (Based on SDA membership)
Francisco Nunes Siqueira was a pastor, educator, and administrator from Brazil.
José Nunes Siqueira was a pastor and administrator from Brazil.
Immanuel Siregar was the first local Indonesian converted to the Seventh-day Adventist Church, and the first local Indonesian pastor. His impact in the spread of the Adventist work in Indonesia is significant.
Frederika House was the youngest and only single person elected as an officer of the General Conference, and one of only three women to serve as a GC treasurer and GC officer.
North American Division Biography Groundbreakers Missionaries Women
William C. Sisley, architect and builder of many of Adventism’s earliest institutions, also served as manager of the church’s publishing houses in Battle Creek and London.
Sitoti SDA Mission Rural Health Center is owned by the West Zambia Field of Seventh-day Adventists, and is operated through government grants and donations.
John Miyambu Sitwala was a pastor, church administrator, and mentor to the youth and to young leaders.
Petra (Tunheim) Skadsheim was a pioneer missionary in Southeast Asia. Ultimately she gave her life in service in the mission field to which she committed her life.
South Pacific Division Biography Groundbreakers Missionaries Died/Imprisoned for Faith Women
Olaf Alexander Skau, a Norwegian by birth, an American by adoption, chose to be a life-long missionary to Southern Asia Division and was involved in varied responsibilities of the church: teacher, school administrator, departmental director, publishing house manager, and a caring leader of needy children who turned out to be strong workers and leaders of the church.
Henry Alfred Skinner was a missionary to Burma.
Skodsborg Badesanatorium (Skodsborg Sanatorium) is a pioneer Seventh-day Adventist medical institution at Skodsborg, a suburb of Copenhagen, Denmark. It was originally owned and operated by the Seventh-day Adventist Church and stood as a model and inspiration for other sanitariums and hospitals in Northern Europe. The institution is still being operated as a health resort under the name Kurhotel Skodsborg, but it no longer belongs to Seventh-day Adventists.
Oldřich Sládek was a pastor, president of the Czech-Slovakian Union Conference, and Euro-Africa Division secretary.
The Slovakian Conference was first organized in 1919 as a mission to oversee the Adventist activities in Slovakia.
Adventists became active in Slovakia at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. The first missionaries from Germany and Hungary worked in the then Prešpork (today’s Bratislava), Košice, as well as the Liptov region in central Slovakia. The first Adventist churches were formed in the period of 1911‒1919.
Inter-European Division Slovakia Country (Based on SDA membership)
Carrol S. Small, M.D., taught at the Loma Linda University School of Medicine from 1937 to 1997, except for seven years of mission service in India.
Mary Maud Smart, an Adventist educator, taught in the South Pacific for forty-six years. She was a respected pioneer of Seventh-day Adventist educational philosophy, principles, and practice.
South Pacific Division Biography Educators Groundbreakers Women