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Harry Thomson was a carpenter to Avondale College, Avondale Health Retreat, and the community through his work on Ellen White’s home Sunnyside and individual contracts.
William Wilson Thomson was an Adventist minister and administrator in the Caribbean Union for thirty-two years.
Ethelbert and Lily Thorpe served as pioneer missionaries in Tonga and Java.
Louis P. Thorpe, musician, educator, and prolific author of widely-acclaimed books on psychology, taught at two Seventh-day Adventist colleges (Emmanuel Missionary College, now Andrews University, and Walla Walla College, now University) and at the church’s medical school (College of Medical Evangelists, now Loma Linda University) before becoming a professor at the University of Southern California.
Neil Ramon Thrasher was a missionary doctor and medical director. He was a surgeon, and a certified specialist in radiology who served with his wife, Lucille Bertha (Daniel), in North America, Africa, and in several countries in the Far Eastern Division.
Alan Thrift, a singer and conductor, and his wife Yvonne Zanotti Thrift, a pianist, singer, and conductor, were associated with the music program at Australasian Missionary College (AMC), later Avondale College of Higher Education (Avondale), for over forty years.
Lyndon and Grace Thrift served in the Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, and Australia.
Richard Alfred Roy Thrift, an Adventist minister and administrator, and is wife, Ethel Thrift, a department secretary, served the Church in Australia, India, and Papua.
John Thurber sang second tenor in the Voice of Prophecy King’s Heralds quartet during the 1960s, served as a teacher, choral director, pastor, and conference president, and was noted for innovation as a conference and union youth leader.
William Henry Thurston was a North American administrator, missionary, and literature evangelist, and one of the first missionaries to arrive in Brazil at the end of the nineteenth century.
While the conversion and early missionary efforts of Tidbury are not as well known in Adventist historiography, he was an early self-supporting educator who contributed in a significant way to the early founding of Adventist missionary work in Hong Kong and Canton, China. Such efforts were often collaborative, self-supporting, and worked under the aegis of the first official missionaries.
An evangelist and administrator in France and Switzerland, Léon-Paul Tièche was one of the first leaders of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the European French speaking countries.
Maurice Tièche was an Adventist educator, pastor, author, and broadcaster from France.
Paul Tièche was evangelist, pastor, teacher, and administrator in France and the French part of Switzerland in the 1900s.
Allan and Ruth Tilley both graduated from the Sydney Sanitarium and Hospital as nurses.
Klaas Tilstra, an Adventist administrator and missionary, was born in 1897 in the Dutch province of Friesland (Frisia).
Klaas Tilstra served as pastor, evangelist, and conference and union president in Indonesia, as union president in the Netherlands, and as educator and builder in New Guinea.
Known as “Asia’s newest nation” and the first new sovereign state of the 21st century, the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste (East Timor) is a small nation with a complex history and, according to Adventist leaders there, huge potential.
Southern Asia-Pacific Division Timor-Leste Country (Based on SDA membership)
The Timor-Leste Mission is an attached mission of the Southern Asia-Pacific Division of Seventh-day Adventists. It was officially organized in 2009 and then renamed and reorganized in 2011.
Tin Tun Shin was a leader of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Myanmar.