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The Atlantic Conference, though short-lived (1889-1901), fostered the early development of Seventh-day Adventist work in the large cities on the mid-Atlantic coast of the United States. It was parent to the Chesapeake, Greater New York, and New Jersey Conferences.
Atlantic Honduras Conference is an organization that is a part of the Honduras Union Mission of Seventh-day Adventists.
Atlantic Panama Conference is an administrative unit of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Panama. It is a part of Panama Union Mission in the Inter-American Division of Seventh-day Adventists.
Atoifi Adventist Hospital is a Seventh-day Adventist medical and surgical institution situated on the isolated east cost of Malaita, one of the larger of the Solomon Islands’ 992 islands.
Auckland Adventist hospital was located at 188 St. Heliers Bay Road, St. Heliers, Auckland, New Zealand. It was administered as an institution of the Trans-Tasman Union Conference, South Pacific Division. It operated between 1974 and 1999.
The Auckland Seventh-day Adventist High School is located at 119 Mountain Road, Mangere Bridge, Auckland, New Zealand.
Jeciliah Wawuru Audu was the first nurse to serve at the Seventh-day Adventist Hospital in Jengre, Plateau State, Nigeria. Her nursing career at the hospital reached a remarkable milestone when she assisted in the delivery of the first set of triplets ever born there. In addition, she notably served as the first Dorcas Society leader—now known as Adventist Women’s Ministries—for the former Northern Nigeria Mission (presently the Northern Nigerian Union Conference).
West-Central Africa Division Biography Women Medical Workers
Louis Aufranc was one of the earliest converts to the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Switzerland and contributed significantly as a self-supporting member to advancing the mission.
Emery P. Auger helped pioneer dissemination of Adventist literature in the French language, both in Europe and North America.
Daniel Andrè Augsburger was an educator at Emmanuel Missionary College, later Andrews University, who specialized in the Protestant Reformation and John Calvin. His sixty-year career made him one of the institution’s longest serving faculty members and the namesake of their annual faculty teaching award.
Erich Aurich was a German Adventist missionary to China. His work focused on Manchuria.
Linda Austin was a pioneering educator and administrator who was one of the founding members of the East Caribbean Training School (now the University of Southern Caribbean), in Maracas Valley, in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago.
Inter-American Division Biography Educators Groundbreakers Women
Australasian Conference Association Limited (ACA) is the most significant and oldest Seventh-day Adventist legal organization in the South Pacific Division of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists (SPD).
ACAST is an acronym for the Australasian Conference Association Superannuation Trust. It is a fund from which employees of the Seventh-day Adventist Church are paid a pension in their retirement. Alternatively, employees may instead choose to receive a lump sum at retirement. The fund was established in response to Australian federal government legislation under the Self-Managed Superannuation Funds Taxation Act (1987) and the Productivity Benefit Act (1988).
Australasian Medical Missionary and Benevolent Association (1897-1900) aimed to promote the principles of healthful living of the denomination and the establishment of the church's medical and charitable enterprises.
The Australasian Research Institute (ARI) began July 20, 2004, to coordinate research activities within the Sydney Adventist Hospital (SAH) and also conduct and promote research in association with other Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) organizations and the community.
Over the period between 1894 and 1985, the territory of the administrative entity known as the Australasian Union Conference changed a number of times and the title of the entity also changed a number of times. The Australasian Union Conference as such existed between 1894 and 1949. However, between 1922 and 1949 it was also known as the Australasian Division. After 1949 it continued to be known as the Australasian Division but was also known more commonly as the Australasian Inter-Union Conference. By 1957 the name ‘Australasian Inter Union Conference’ was being phased out and the term Australasian Division was used until the entity was renamed as the South Pacific Division in 1985. Throughout we are describing the same administrative organization.
Australasian Division income during the depression was remarkable in the face of widespread adversity. Any progress made by the church during the worst years was in sharp contrast to numerous bankruptcies and business failures in the secular world.
The close proximity of Australia to Southeast Asia naturally led union conference officials in Australia to adopt responsibility for the establishment of Seventh-day Adventist missions in that region, first in Sumatra, then Singapore, followed by the Philippine Islands and Java.
Australia is the only independent country that occupies a whole continent. Located in the Southern Hemisphere it has a population of some 25.5 million people. The Seventh-day Adventist Church commenced its work in Australia in Melbourne, Victoria in 1885.
South Pacific Division Australia Country (Based on SDA membership)