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Eliza J. Burnham devoted nearly 40 years to editorial service in the Adventist publishing work, during which she helped edit several of the church’s leading periodicals and assisted Ellen White in her literary work.
Pastor Nelson Burns and his wife, Colina, worked in Australia, New Zealand, India, and Fiji, where Pastor Burns was a greatly respected pastor, evangelist, missionary, and teacher as well as chair of the Bible department at Avondale College for 14 years.
South Pacific Division Biography Educators Missionaries Couples
George Burnside was one of the most successful evangelists of his time in the South Pacific Division of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
Samuel Gayie Buro was an Adventist minister and pioneer worker in Ethiopia.
For more than fifty years Natelkka Izetta Edith Burrell served in the Seventh-day Adventist educational system as a teacher, principal, department chair, professor, and residential dean.
Nanibala Biswas, born in 1885 in a high caste Hindu family in Calcuta (Kolkatta), was the first non-Christian to accept the Adventist message in India in 1896.
Shirley Ann Burton was an Adventist communication professional who served the Oregon Conference, the Pacific Union Conference, and the General Conference.
Since its beginning after World War I, the Adventist work in the African country of Burundi has been challenged by strongholds of Islam and Catholicism and political upheaval.
East-Central Africa Division Burundi Country (Based on SDA membership)
Seventh-day Adventist health services in Burundi can be traced back to the early days of the Adventist church in the country. In 1925 David E. Delhove, Burundi’s first Adventist missionary, settled in Buganda, in Cibitoke province. He reached people through evangelism, education, and health programs. In 1983 Seventh-day Adventist Welfare Services (SAWS), now Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA), launched in Burundi.
Burundi Union Mission is a part of the East-Central Africa Division of Seventh-day Adventists. Its headquarters is in Kiriri, Bujumbura, Burundi, and it covers the country of Burundi.
Busan Adventist Hospital (aka Sahmyook Busan Byeongwon) is one of the medical missionary organizations administered by the Korean Union Conference. Located at 170 Daetiro, Seo-gu, Busan, as of the end of 2020, the hospital had 49 doctors, 280 nurses, and 191 other employees with a total of 520. The hospital has 271 beds.
Busegwe Girls High School is located on the site of the first Seventh-day Adventist mission established in Tanzania in 1903. The location operated as the headquarters of the Seventh-day Adventist Church from that time until 1978, when the mission office was moved to Arusha. Some of the buildings used by the school are those that were built by the missionaries. It is the only Adventist girls’ school in Tanzania.
Busegwe Mission Station occupies an important place in the history of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Tanzania. Established in 1909 in the Lake Victoria region of what was then German East Africa, Busegwe became one of the denomination’s earliest mission centers outside the Pare Mountains and an important gateway for Adventist work among the Zanaki people and neighboring communities in what is the present-day Mara Region.
East-Central Africa Division Tanzania Church Administrative Unit
Caleb Busienei was a pioneer Nandi Seventh-day Adventist who came to the faith through the early work of David Sparrow in Western Kenya.
Gilberto Bustamante Zárate was among the pioneers of the Adventist work in Colombia.
Ann “Annie” Emma Butler was an Adventist missionary to Europe. She worked closely as an assistant and translator for Michael Belina Czechowski (1818-1876).
North American Division Biography Groundbreakers Women Missionaries Died/Imprisoned for Faith
Francis James Butler's long denominational service included various administrative positions in Australia.
George Ide Butler served the church for 30 years (1865-1888; 1901-1908) as pastor and president of the Iowa, Missouri, Michigan and Florida conferences, the Southern Union Conference, and the General Conference.
Pastor Lance Butler was an Australian, an astute financial manager who spent his working life in the service of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. He was treasurer of the Australasian Division for twelve years and then treasurer of the global General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists between 1980 and 1985.
Lewis Allan Butler (known as Allan and subsequently referred to as Allan to distinguish him from his father, Lewis Butler) was a business studies graduate from Australasian Missionary College who gave 45 years of service to the Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) Church in the Australasian Division (now South Pacific Division) as accountant, manager, teacher, evangelist, and administrator, with seven years as a conference president.