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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.
Charles Tinworth was an Adventist missionary and Sanitarium Health Food (SHF) Company Manager.
Tirad View Academy was established in 1965. It is in Quirino, Ilocos Sur, Philippines.
Tobago Mission was organized in 2004. It is a part of Caribbean Union Conference in the Inter-American Division of Seventh-day Adventists.
Tobias Tobiassen became an Adventist in his 40s when he began his preaching ministry. He was one of the most successful Seventh-day Adventist preachers in Denmark and Norway of his time, and later also added administrative responsibilities to his service for the church. Many were led to the Savior through his ministry.
Tocantins Mission is an administrative unit of the Seventh-day Adventist Church located in the territory of the West Central Brazil Union Mission. Its headquarters is currently in the city of Palmas, state of Tocantins, Brazil.
Introduction of the Adventist message in Togo began in 1959 with the arrival of a European literature evangelist named Georges Vaysse who had come from Ghana to Togo and Benin to distribute pamphlets and Christian books.
West-Central Africa Division Togo Country (Based on SDA membership)
Togoba Hansenide Colony was opened in 1950 in order to treat cases of leprosy or Hansen’s disease in the Western Highlands of Papua New Guinea.
Toishan Hospital and Dispensary, better known by the pinyin of its Chinese name as Taishan Christos Hospital, was one of the short-lived, yet important Adventist health institutions in southern China that emerged after World War II but was soon taken over by the government due to political changes in China.
A part of the South Pacific Division of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, Tokelau is within the administrative area of the Samoa-Tokelau Mission in the Trans Pacific Union Mission. With a population of only around 1500 people living on three Pacific coral atolls, Tokelau is one of the smallest and most remote nations in the world, located approximately 500 kilometers north of Samoa.
South Pacific Division Tokelau Country (Based on SDA membership)
Tokyo Adventist Hospital (Tokyo Eisei Adventist Byoin) is a medical corporation owned and operated by the Japan Union Conference. It includes a 186-bed hospital, three medical clinics, a dental clinic, and a home-visit nursing station, with over 500 employees. Located about 15 km west of downtown Tokyo, the hospital shares its campus with Amanuma Church, the largest Adventist church in Tokyo, and Saniku Gakuin College of Nursing, the only Adventist nursing college in Japan.
Athal Tolhurst was born in Tonga of missionary parents. He was a pastor, evangelist and administrator who was for a time a Union President, Secretary of the South Pacific Division and Under-Secretary of the General Conference. He was married to Linley (Willis), and together they served the Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) Church for 45 years.
Hubert Tolhurst was an early Adventist missionary to Tonga, teacher, pastor, administrator, and poet.
South Pacific Division Biography Groundbreakers Missionaries Died/Imprisoned for Faith
Tonga is a Polynesian kingdom of approximately 170 islands divided into three main groups—Tongatapu in the south, the Ha’apai group in the center, and the Vava’u group in the north.
South Pacific Division Tonga Country (Based on SDA membership)
Tonga was a charter member and deacon of the Titikaveka church, Cook Islands.