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Hendrik Twijnstra was a pioneer Seventh-day Adventist pastor and leader in the Netherlands East Indies (now Indonesia).
Trans-European Division Netherlands Biography Groundbreakers Missionaries
Ethel Louise Twing was an Adventist missionary and a registered nurse who devoted her entire life to serving the continent of Africa.
East-Central Africa Division Biography Missionaries Medical Workers Women Educators
James Arthur Twing was an Adventist medical missionary and pioneering flying doctor in Tanzania. He established and served 22 dispensaries across the country and personally invested in purchasing an airplane to improve access to remote medical facilities. Tragically, his life was cut short at age 51 in an aircraft accident, limiting his medical service in Tanzania to two years, from 1970 to 1972.
East-Central Africa Division Biography Groundbreakers Missionaries Medical Workers Died/Imprisoned for Faith
Friday Okoro Ubani was a pastor and administrator in Nigeria.
UChicago Medicine AdventHealth Hinsdale (2023 to present) is a general acute-care hospital located in Hinsdale, approximately 17 miles (30 kilometers) west of Chicago’s main business district. It started in 1904 as Hinsdale Sanitarium (1904-1983), then Hinsdale Hospital (1983-1997), and AdventHealth Hinsdale (1997-2022), it is the largest and oldest hospital in DuPage County, Illinois.
Otto Uebersax served in the Seventh-day Adventist pastoral ministry in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, and Israel.
Ufunuo Publishing House (UPH) in Morogoro, Tanzania, began as a printing plant prompted in 1969 by the need to produce Voice of Prophecy lessons for the Tanzanian Mission Field.
East-Central Africa Division Publishing House/Media Institution
Uganda is a landlocked country bordered by Kenya in the east, South Sudan in the north, Democratic Republic of the Congo in the west, Rwanda in the southwest, and Tanzania in the south. Uganda’s total land area is 241,559 sq km. About 37,000 sq km of this area is occupied by open water while the rest is land. The southern part of the country includes a substantial portion of Lake Victoria, which it shares with Kenya and Tanzania.
East-Central Africa Division Uganda Country (Based on SDA membership)
Uganda Union Mission is a church administrative unit of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Uganda and is part of East-Central Africa Division.
The first Adventist tracts were brought to Ukraine in 1882 and actively distributed in Crimea by Philipp Reiswig. The first Adventists appeared in 1886 in Crimea in the village of Berdy Bulat, as a result of baptism conducted by Pastor L. R. Conradi.
Ukrainian Union Conference Ukraine Country (Based on SDA membership)
The Ukrainian Adventist Center of Higher Education (UACHE) is located in the town of Bucha, Kiev Region, Ukraine. The UACHE incorporates the Ukrainian Institute of Humanities and the Ukrainian Adventist Theological Institute and offers a wide range of academic programs.
The Ukrainian Union Conference was organized in 1977 and reorganized in 1987, at that time becoming part of Euro-Asia Division of Seventh-day Adventists. It was reorganized and attached to the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists in 2022. Its headquarters is in Kiev, Ukraine.
Carl Ulrich, an Adventist minister, held a number of significant managerial and leadership positions within the denomination in Australia over a timespan of almost forty years.
Laura Louisa Lee Ulrich Smith was a nurse, educator, and promoter of the Adventist health message and lifestyle.
UNASPRESS (The Adventist University Press) is the publisher of the Brazil Adventist University (UNASP), and it is in the building of the Rectory of UNASP, Engenheiro Coelho campus (UNASP-EC) that is in Lagoa Bonita neighborhood, in the city of Engenheiro Coelho, state of São Paulo, Brazil.
Several unofficial Adventist educational centers were organized during the Soviet regime, because the government officials denied the Adventist church an opportunity to train future ministers. Such centers were, among other places, in Rostov-on-Don, under the leadership of J. J. Wilson, and Kyiv, under the leadership of I.A. Lvov.
Union Adventist University is a co-educational institution of higher learning in Lincoln, Nebraska, founded as Union College by the Seventh-day Adventist Church in 1891. The college has continuously operated on the same site since it was founded.
Unión Radio is an Adventist radio that broadcasts its programs throughout Guatemala and beyond.
Before 1922, the state of New York was divided into three Adventist conferences: the Greater New York Conference (1902- ), which encompassed the metropolitan New York City area; the Western New York Conference (1906-1922), which operated a secondary school near Salamanca successively called the Tunesassa School (1906-1907), Tunesassa Intermediate School (1907-1913), Fernwood Intermediate School (1913-1917), and Fernwood Academy (1917-1921); and the Eastern New York Conference (1906-1922), which operated Clinton Academy for one year (1920-1921).
The first mention of a Seventh-day Adventist living in UAE was in 1975 when Mrs. Darlene Pickle held a series of health cooking classes in Dubai, where she lived. She also conducted a weekly Story Hour for the neighborhood children with help from her own five children.
Middle East and North Africa Union Mission United Arab Emirates Country (Based on SDA membership)