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Kenneth Alvin Boehm devoted most of his building career to denominational and missionary service in Papua New Guinea (PNG), contributing significantly to the SDA Church’s development during a period of rapid change. By the time he retired to Australia, church leadership in PNG had been fully nationalized. His more than six decades in PNG, most of it in missionary service, standing as a remarkable and likely unparalleled record.
Leonid Bogdanow was a canvasser, pastor, and conference-level director in the South Brazil Union.
Walter Boger’s contribution had great significance for the Adventist Church in Brazil, and his performance in administrative positions was especially important to the Rio Grande do Sul and Paraná Conferences and to the Adventist radio program Voice of Prophecy. He also made a significant contribution to education as director of both UNASP campuses São Paulo and Engenheiro Coelho.
First organized in 1912, the Bohemian Mission was reorganized and renamed several times until it became the Bohemian Conference after the Second World War.
Joseph Ngussa Bohole was a renowned literature evangelist and pastor who played a key role in bringing many souls to Christ across Tanzania.
Wattafeni Boiori (‘Watti’) was a Papuan who was baptized as one of the first Seventh-day Adventists in Papua. He spent his life working for the church and was a pioneer missionary in the Papuan Gulf.
Ana Martha Bökenkamp, teacher and chef, was born in 1895 in the city of Bielefeld, Germany.
Geraldo Bökenkamp made an important contribution to the Seventh-day Adventist Church as an administrator of the Brazil Food Factory (Superbom), manager of the Global Food Services, and in the auditing department of the South American Division.
Boliu Hospital on the Island of Mussau, Papua New Guinea was opened in 1955. It was closed in 1977 when a government facility opened approximately thirty minutes’ walk from the mission station.
Luis A. Bolívar was one of the most outstanding of the early Adventist workers along with Gilberto Bustamante, Tirso and Jorge Escandón, and Samuel Camacho. He distinguished himself as a preacher, administrator, and singer. Like Bustamante, he used his marvelous voice in ministry and evangelism.
During his lengthy career as an editor and author, Calvin P. Bollman was connected with all three of the major Seventh-day Adventist publishing associations then operating in North America and helped edit several leading periodicals, including Signs of the Times, Review and Herald, and Liberty. He also contributed in multiple ways to the early development of denominational institutions in the American South.
Irene Bomfim was an esteemed educator in Brazil and a fourth-generation Seventh-day Adventist, descended from a family with a long and deeply rooted tradition of missionary service.
Bonaire is a small island located in the Caribbean Sea to the north of Venezuela.
Inter-American Division Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba Country (Based on SDA membership)
Bonaire Mission was organized in 2017 as a part of the restructuring of Curaçao and Bonaire Conference. Its territory comprises the island of Bonaire.
Frank Starr Bond and his brother Walter were the first two missionaries who brought the Adventist message to Spain.
Inter-European Division Biography Groundbreakers Missionaries
Walter Bond was one of the first Adventist missionaries to Spain.
North American Division Biography Died/Imprisoned for Faith Groundbreakers Missionaries
Clarissa “Clara” Bonfoey was a close friend of and housekeeper for James and Ellen White for about eight years.
Bongo Adventist Mission was the first mission station to be established in Angola by the Seventh-day Adventist missionaries.
Southern Africa-Indian Ocean Division Church Administrative Unit
Charles Ronald Bonney, whose service to the Seventh-day Adventist Church began in his native British Isles, extended to the Indian subcontinent, and concluded in the United States, distinguished himself as a teacher, pastor, radio speaker, Voice of Prophecy director, and secretary of Southern Asia Division as it was in 1962-- India, Burma, Ceylon (Sri Lanka), Pakistan (Pakistan-Bangladesh), Nepal and Bhutan.
Arna Bontemps was a key figure in America’s Harlem Renaissance literary movement of the 1920s.