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Joseph Clarke was one of the most influential Adventist laypersons in the nineteenth century. A gifted writer who published hundreds of articles in denominational periodicals, he was a radical reformer who advocated for the abolition of slavery, equal rights and righteous voting, among many other reforms.
Colongondat Clément Claude was among the first native people to be recruited as an evangelist in Central African Republic.
This article presents the development of the understanding of the validity of the Pentateuchal laws regarding clean and unclean food among Seventh-day Adventists. An integral part of the Seventh-day Adventists’ 28 Fundamental Beliefs is making the distinction between clean and unclean food in order to avoid eating what is unclean, i.e., not fit for human consumption.
Eva May Clements was an Australian missionary to India.
South Pacific Division Biography Died/Imprisoned for Faith Missionaries Women
E.E. Cleveland was preeminent in Adventist public evangelism during the second half of the twentieth century. As an exceptionally gifted preacher who trained thousands of pastors, Bible instructors, and ministerial students in evangelistic methods, his ministry had a global reach that transcended race. At the same time his leadership was of singular significance for the American church’s struggle to overcome its accommodation to racism during an era of rapid social change.
Clifford University is an educational institution owned and operated by the Seventh-day Adventist church in Nigeria.
British-born Francis George Clifford served the Seventh-day Adventist Church for over forty years as a pastor-evangelist, departmental leader, and senior church administrator in two world divisions.
Gerald Francis Clifford was a life-long educator with most of his career spent in leadership roles. An able administrator, Clifford was to have the unusual distinction of having served as the director of Education for two world divisions of the Seventh-day Adventist Church: the then-Trans-Africa Division and later the South Pacific Division.
Jesse Clifford began his mission work in Sierra Leone. Later, he and his wife, Mary Catherine "Katie," pioneered Adventist mission work in Nigeria, the Ivory Coast, and Ghana.
Trans-European Division Biography Missionaries Groundbreakers Couples
William John Clouten and his family were some of the first converts to the Seventh-day Adventist faith in the Cooranbong area in the mid-1890s at the time a site was being sought to establish Avondale College.
Juan Gastón Clouzet Jenkins was a pastor, journalist, writer, director, publisher, teacher, lecturer, and administrator in the Chile Union Mission and in the South American Division.
Australians Pastor Rex and Winnie Cobbin served the Seventh-day Adventist Church for just over thirty-eight years. Twenty of those years were spent as missionaries in the Island Nations of the South Pacific including Pitcairn Island, New Hebrides (now Vanuatu), Fiji, and Papua New Guinea. During that time Rex was a pastor, evangelist, mission and conference president, union departmental director, and union president. Winnie, a highly qualified nurse, worked closely by his side wherever they were sent, supporting the work of the church and caring for their four children.
South Pacific Division Biography Missionaries Medical Workers Couples
Wallace O. Coe served the church for more than four decades as pastor, departmental director, conference president, union president, and General Conference vice president.
Manoel Soares Coelho, pastor and publishing leader, was born January 25, 1905, in the British territory of Bermuda.
Dr. Day and Edyth Coffin (高清瑞) served as missionaries in southern China for twenty-two years, including many years in war conditions. Day served as a medical doctor, and Edyth served as treasurer bookkeeper, and matron. They developed a medical institution at Nanning, Guangxi Province, leaving it functioning as a well-respected sixty-bed hospital, and then transferred to care for the Canton Sanitarium and Hospital in Guangdong Province.
Chinese Union Mission Biography Missionaries Medical Workers Couples
Harold Glen Coffin was a Seventh-day Adventist scientist, trained as an invertebrate zoologist. He taught high school and college-level biology, worked as a staff scientist at Geoscience Research Institute, published in peer-reviewed scientific literature, and wrote several books and numerous articles for denominational publications in defense of a recent six-day creation and global Flood.
Dr. C. Joan Coggin, pediatric cardiologist, co-founded the Loma Linda University Overseas Heart Surgery Team which initiated and upgraded open-heart surgery programs in hospitals around the world.
North American Division Biography Groundbreakers Educators Medical Workers Women
Larry Roy Colburn was a Seventh-day Adventist minister, publishing leader, missionary administrator, General Conference associate secretary, and administrative assistant to the General Conference president. Over more than four decades of denominational employment, he served in the United States, Taiwan, Indonesia, and Singapore.
George Washington Colcord was a pastor, evangelist, conference president, and educator who founded two academies that were forerunners of universities (Walla Walla University and Southern Adventist University).
Willard Allan Colcord was an editor and religious liberty advocate.