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Sterrie Wellman’s church career is distinguished by pioneer mission work in the Caribbean and India followed by lengthy service as an associate secretary of the Sabbath School Department at General Conference headquarters.
North American Division Biography Groundbreakers Missionaries
An administrator for most of his ministerial career, George W. Wells served as president of four local conferences and one union conference and as a General Conference field secretary.
Egil Wensell was a pastor, educator, educational manager, and rector of Adventist educational institutions.
Gunnar Wensell was a doctor, an ordained pastor, and a missionary in Bolivia, Peru, Paraguay, and Argentina; a medical director of Adventist hospitals; and the mayor of Libertador San Martín, Entre Ríos, Argentina.
Niels Wensell was a pastor, professor, and administrator in the South American Division.
Erick Walter Were, an Adventist photographer, film producer, and writer, was born on June 21, 1914, in Adelaide, South Australia.
Louis Fitzroy Were (April 29,1896 - April 2, 1967) was a pastor, evangelist, and author who worked for the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Australia and New Zealand from 1919 to 1943.
Veryl D. Mitchell was an Australian missionary nurse who served in Kenya at the Kendu Mission Hospital for ten years. She was one of several Australian nurses who dedicated their lives to serve in Kenya.
East-Central Africa Division Biography Missionaries Medical Workers Women
Pieter Johannes Daniel Wessels was a pioneer lay worker.
Southern Africa-Indian Ocean Division Biography Groundbreakers
The West African Union Mission (WAUM) is one of the unions in the West-Central Africa Division. It was organized in 1973 and reorganized in 2000 and 2013. Its headquarters is in Sinkor, Monrovia, Liberia.
West Amazon Adventist Academy (Instituto Adventista da Amazônia Ocidental, or IAAmO) is a boarding school in Brazil that offers elementary and high school education.
The West Amazon Conference is an administrative unit of the Seventh-day Adventist Church located in the territory of the Northwest Brazil Union Mission. Its headquarters is in Porto Velho, which is the capital of the state of Rondônia, Brazil.
The Adventist mission work in Iran was officially organized as the Iran Mission and was part of the Central European Division in 1935 with headquarters located in Tehran. The Iran operated as a mission until 1957 when it was changed to Iran Section under the Middle East Division. Since 2017 the country of Iran is under the administration of the West Asia Field of the Middle East and North Africa Union.
Middle East and North Africa Union Mission Church Administrative Unit
West Bolivia Mission (Misión Boliviana Occidental or MBO) is an administrative unit of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (SDA) located in the Bolivia Union Mission (Unión Boliviana or UB) territory.
West Cameroon Conference is part of Cameroon Union Mission in the West-Central Africa Division of Seventh-day Adventists.
The West Central Brazil Union Mission is an administrative unit of the Seventh-day Adventist Church located in the territory of the South American Division. Its head office is in the city of Brasília, territory of the Federal District, Brazil.
West Central Korean Conference (aka Seojunghanhaphoe) is one of the five units comprising the Korean Union Conference of the Northern Asia-Pacific Division of Seventh-day Adventists. First named the Central Chosen Mission when the Chosen Union Mission was formed in 1919, then reorganized as the West Central Korean Mission in 1978, and it was elevated to the West Central Korean Conference in 1983.
West Central Venezuela Conference is an administrative unit of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in West Venezuela Union Mission in the Inter-American Division of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.
The West Chiapas Conference is part of the Chiapas Mexican Union Conference in the Inter-American Division of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. Its headquarters is in Tuxtla Gutierrez, Chiapas, Mexico.
Continued growth in the El Salvador Union Mission led to the creation of the West El Salvador Conference in 2006.