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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.
Heather-Dawn Kamille Ernie Small (née Barker) was a distinguished international leader, passionate women’s advocate, and visionary servant of God. She served with distinction for nearly three decades, beginning her ministry in the Caribbean in 1995 and later serving the worldwide Seventh-day Adventist Church until her untimely death on January 2, 2024. Her leadership was marked by creativity, high standards, and servant leadership.
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
Annie Rebekah Smith was a gifted writer, editor, and artist who devoted her abilities to the early publishing work of what would become the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
Cyrenius and Mary Smith were early Sabbatarian Adventists converted by Joseph Bates. Cyrenius was a farmer and, later, worked as a carpenter.
Kenneth Smith served the country of Thailand for 12 years, including a term as president of the Thailand Mission from late 1972 to mid-1974, and served the church for more than three decades.
Gordon and Maud Smith were pioneer medical missionaries in the South Pacific, Australia, and New Zealand. Several years after Maud died, Gordon married Vera Constance Aldred. Together they taught schools and worked with the Maoris in New Zealand.
South Pacific Division Biography Groundbreakers Couples Medical Workers Missionaries
Herbert and his wife, Thelma, were pioneer missionaries in Central China in the 1920s. Herbert’s ministry was tragically cut short when he was murdered by bandits. Thelma bravely continued her service in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan until her retirement in 1972.
Chinese Union Mission China Biography Groundbreakers Missionaries Died/Imprisoned for Faith
Leon Smith, son of noted pioneer Uriah Smith, was a longtime Adventist editor and writer.
Merrill E. Smith was a skilled electrician, mechanic, builder, baker, industrial teacher, professor of math and sciences, industry manager, college secretary, and college principal.
Read Smith and his wife, Lucy, did medical missionary work among the New Zealand Maoris.
South Pacific Division Biography Missionaries Died/Imprisoned for Faith
Samuel Parker Smith, known as Parker or S. Parker, was a missionary to the Island of San Luis, Colombia and Panama.
Thelma Smith was an american missionary in The United States, China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan from 1927 until 1984. Smith’s husband Herbert was murdered by bandits in China weeks after arriving at their first mission posting as young newlyweds and young parents. Mrs. Smith remained in Asia as a missionary for most of the next forty-seven years.
William James Smith was born in Hanworth, Middlesex, England, on May 4, 1867, and christened there on June 9. He migrated to New Zealand and married Eliza Wall in 1888. She also was from England, born in Lewes, Sussex, on July 2, 1857. They became Seventh-day Adventists under the ministry of Eugene Farnsworth in 1896. William, at the time, was a schoolteacher with the New Zealand Education Department. As new church members they attended a small Sabbath School company with Sidney Amyes on the Irwell farmlands, near Christchurch, and became close friends. When the central Christchurch meetinghouse was organized in Barbados Street, both men were among its leading officers.
William R. Smith and his wife, Addie, were the first Korean Adventist missionary couple to be sent to Korea from the General Assembly, and were faithful leaders of the Korean Church with Williams serving as a pastor, educator, and administrator while serving as missionaries for 20 years.
Northern Asia-Pacific Division Biography Groundbreakers Missionaries
Joseph Grady Smoot was president of Andrews University and also served on the faculty of Columbia Union College (now Washington Adventist University) and Pittsburg (Kansas) State University.
Benjamin Franklin Snook was a Seventh-day Adventist minister and administrator from 1860 to 1865, and afterward joined an offshoot group.