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John Martin Cole was an early missionary to the South Pacific, a conference president in Australia, New Zealand, and the West Indies, and a minister in the United States, mainly in the Northwest.
Sidney Cole was a food chemist who was influential in development and research for Seventh-day Adventist food companies in Australia and South and Central America and became director of the International Health Food Association for the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.
Colegio Timón, an Adventist elementary (preschool and primary) and secondary school in Madrid operated by the Spanish Adventist Union.
Larkin Baker Coles (or Cole) was a physician, a Millerite lecturer, a writer, and an abolitionist. His book "Philosophy of Health" was the most comprehensive statement on health to come out of the Millerite community and had an enduring influence on the Seventh-day Adventist Church’s conception of health reform.
College Food (Daehakshikpum) was the profit company that led the development of Sahmyook University by producing dairy products such as Sahmyook Milk, Sahmyook Ice Cream. The company was located on the premises of Sahmyook University and operated from 1949 to 2004, but has been closed. The company has a historical significance because it has made a significant contribution to the development of Sahmyook University, a higher education institution of the Adventist Church in Korea.
Northern Asia-Pacific Division Publishing House/Media Institution
One of the industries established during the early years of Caribbean Training College (now University of the Southern Caribbean) was the printing industry. Professor R. S. J. Hamilton started the operation in 1930 in what was called the Print Shop (the Press), which was located in a section of the women’s dormitory.
The Collegiate Sabbath School Quarterly—best known by its later title Collegiate Quarterly and its familiar initials CQ—was the Seventh-day Adventist Sabbath School Bible-study guide developed for college students and other young adults.
Trevor Collett was a self-supporting missionary working a timber plantation on the islands of Mussau and Emirau in New Guinea before World War II. His wife Olga and their daughter Anthea escaped to Australia but he lost his life in the Japanese invasion.
The first Seventh-day Adventist to arrive in Colombia was Frank C. Kelly, a North American who was not an employee of the church. He settled in Bogotá in 1895. The record shows that American pastor Frank J. Hutchins and Australian medical missionary John Eccles died in Colombia in 1902; so, although they were originally missionaries in Panama, they came to work in Colombia. Samuel Smith, son of Uriah Smith, arrived in San Andrés in 1901, where he worked with Hutchins and Eccles. The first converts to the church in Colombia were baptized in San Andrés.
Inter-American Division Colombia Country (Based on SDA membership)
Colombia Adventist University Corporation (Corporación Universitaria Adventista, also UNAC) is a nonprofit university institution whose primary objective was to offer post-secondary education at the university level. The Inter-American Division endorsed the institution’s establishment, and the Adventist Accrediting Association recognized the programs it offered.
Colombian Islands Mission is located in the archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia, and Santa Catalina. Colombian Islands Mission was a part of the former Colombian Union Mission until it divided into two unions. It is now a part of North Colombian Union Conference.
The Adventist Church in Colonial Kenya made its mark in Education, Healthcare, and Publishing, and all of them created jobs for many Africans. The Church was criticized by early nationalists for actively dissuading them from the clamor for independence.
Colorado Sanitarium, also known as Boulder Sanitarium, was an Adventist health facility in Boulder, Colorado that continues to exist today as AdventHealth Avista in nearby Louisville. It was the third Seventh-day Adventist health institution to be founded in the denomination. A nursing school connected to the sanitarium that during its heyday produced some of the best trained nurses in the region. Today the medical facility offers comprehensive medical, emergency, and Level III trauma care.
Ellis R. Colson served the church as a teacher, business manager, and school principal at the mission school in Sweden, treasurer for the Northern European Division, business manager of Atlantic Union College, secretary-treasurer of the Minnesota Conference, and pastor in the Minnesota Conference.
John Frederick Coltheart was an innovative and successful evangelist in Australia and Europe.
The Columbia Union Conference is an administrative unit of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the North American Division comprising the following local conferences: Allegheny East, Allegheny West, Chesapeake, Mountain View, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Potomac.
The Columbia Union Visitor is the official publication of the Columbia Union Conference, providing church members in its territory with news and information along with inspiration and insight to enhance their involvement in the mission of the church.
William Commin was an early church administrator in Southern Africa. He also served as editor for early Adventist publications in Africa and worked to deepen the publishing ministry in the young Adventist Church in Africa.
The Community Hospital of Seventh-day Adventists is located in Port of Spain, Trinidad, West Indies.
The Complete Health Improvement Program (CHIP) was founded in the United States in 1988. CHIP is a community-based lifestyle intervention program. It uses behavioral change principles in a group or self-guided setting. It is a powerful disease reversal tool that disrupts and curtails the rising chronic disease rates in a highly effective manner which is now owned and operated under the auspices of the Sanitarium Health and Wellbeing company in the South Pacific Division.