Browse Articles
Rodolpho Wagner Belz was a pastor, evangelist, teacher, and church administrator.
Urbanus Bender was a minister, conference president, and educator in the United States, the West Indies, and Africa.
Benghazi Adventist Hospital was a general hospital owned and operated by the Nile Union Mission and the Middle East Division from 1956 to 1969 in Benghazi, Cyrenaica, Libya. It was administered by a medical director and it included medical, surgical, and obstetrical departments, in addition to providing laboratory, x-ray, and pharmaceutical services.
Middle East and North Africa Union Mission Medical Institution
The first Seventh-day Adventist worker in Benin for whom there is any record was George Vaysse, a missionary in the field of European literature, who went to the country in 1957 after having worked in the neighboring West African territories.
West-Central Africa Division Benin Country (Based on SDA membership)
The Benin Mission, encompassing the country of Benin, was established in 1964 and reorganized in 1987. Its headquarters are located at C/1109 “D,” Wologuede, Cotonou. As of the end of 2019, the membership was 5,859 with twenty-eight organized churches and sixty-one companies.
West-Central Africa Division Benin Church Administrative Unit
Bernard Wilfred Benn dedicated more than fifty years of his life to Christian education as a teacher, principal, professor, department chair, and college president.
Harry Benson served for over 35 years as a minister and missionary teacher in Japan and Korea. He was the longest serving expatriate missionary in the Far Eastern Division during the pre-Second World War years.
Isaac Ackah Benson was an Adventist minister and the first Ghanaian national personal ministry director.
Roy Benton served the church in several leadership capacities, including nearly 20 years in the Southwestern Union Conference as a local conference president and then president of the union.
LeRoy Arthur Benzinger, Jr. was a teacher, educator, missionary, and school manager and administrator.
The Grenadine Island of Bequia, a three-square mile island in area, forms part of the state of St. Vincent and the Grenadines and has a population of just over 4,000. The primary Bequia Adventist School was established in 1952. The Bequia Seventh-day Adventist Secondary School began sometime around 1956. The Adventist church is credited with introducing secondary school education on the island of Bequia.
Bere Adventist Hospital is located in Tandjilé province, Central Tandjilé department, about 400 kilometers southwest of N’Djamena, Chad.
The Berean Library was a set of core denominational books issued as inexpensive paperbacks for use in reading programs intended to enhance members’ understanding of and involvement in the mission of the church.
Henrique Berg was a pastor, missionary, and administrator in South America.
Albert Berger, canvasser and missionary, was born in Gutenberg, Germany, on November 5, 1865.
Theophilo is considered one of the Seventh-day Adventist pioneers in the Brazilian states of Pernambuco and Bahia.
William H. Bergherm was an Adventist evangelist, pastor, and administrator. He was the second Adventist minister to become a commissioned chaplain in the United States Army during World War II.
North American Division Biography Died/Imprisoned for Faith Groundbreakers
Esther Bergman was a leading medical missionary nurse and educator in the United States and in Ethiopia, where she made a critical contribution to the early development of Adventist mission.
North American Division Biography Died/Imprisoned for Faith Missionaries Medical Workers Women
Alma and Adolpho Bergold made an important contribution to the Adventist Church as employees of two denominational institutions. Adolpho’s dedication to the agricultural sector contributed to the development of the Brazil College’s farm in its early days and to Sandia View Academy. Alma contributed significantly in the educational field to which she dedicated her life.
Edgard Ernesto Bergold, pastor and administrator, was born on October 19, 1932, in Taquara in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The son of Hugo Bergold and Maria Rocher Bergold, Edgard had two older siblings, Hary and Edith, and the youngest one, Lily Elsa.