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Carlos Emilio Drachenberg was a doctor, pastor, educator, and founder of medical institutions in Argentina, Paraguay, and Mexico.
South American Division Biography Educators Groundbreakers Medical Workers
Dumituru Dragomirescu was a renowned Adventist educator and scientist from Romania.
Laurie and Joy Draper served as missionaries in Papua New Guinea. Dr. Laurie Draper also held roles as an educator and educational administrator.
South Pacific Division Biography Missionaries Educators Couples
Ruby Dray was treasurer of the North New South Wales Conference and then the North New Zealand Conference for over thirty years.
Paul Drinhaus served the Seventh-day Adventist Church from 1906 to 1930, as an evangelist, pastor, and administrator.
Peter Drinhaus was a Seventh-day Adventist pastor, evangelist and missionary in Germany, Africa and Asia.
Adventist missionary and philanthropist Phebe Helen Rankin Druillard, known as Nellie, was an administrator, treasurer, and founder of institutions.
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Du Shuyren (杜樹人) served the church for five decades across China—including Hunan, Jiangxi, Manchuria (Liaoning, Heilongjiang, and Harbin), Guizhou, Shanghai, and Jiangsu—demonstrating steadfast leadership and enduring faith through war, persecution, and political upheaval.
Dual allegiance is a form of divided religious dependence in which a person who identifies as Christian continues to seek spiritual protection, healing, guidance, explanations of misfortune, or other religious assistance from a second religious source that functions alongside or in place of Christian trust. For Seventh-day Adventists, dual allegiance has been treated both as a theological concern and as a mission and discipleship challenge.
Duan Yongqian (段雍虔) served the Seventh-day Adventist Church across China—including Hebei, Shandong, Chahar, Shanxi, Jiangsu, and Shanghai—for sixty-four years, enduring war, imprisonment, and persecution while advancing the gospel, training church leaders, and demonstrating unwavering devotion to Christ.
Chinese Union Mission China Biography Died/Imprisoned for Faith
Charles Edward Dudley, Sr. minister and conference president, was one of the Seventh-day Adventist Church’s leading advocates for racial justice and structural change during the second half of the twentieth century.
T. F. Duke was a missionary to Kenya and founder of Ranen Conference.
East-Central Africa Division Biography Died/Imprisoned for Faith Missionaries Groundbreakers
The Düna Conference was a short lived Russian church unit that operated from 1914 until sometime after 1917.
George Dunder served with his wife, Virginia, as a missionary to Kenya and Tanzania.
Alma Virginia Dunder, née Closser, was a missionary to Tanzania and Kenya with her husband, George, spending 11 years in both countries with the bulk of it in Tanzania.
East-Central Africa Division Biography Educators Missionaries Women
Abbie Florence Dunn (Chinese name: 鄧福恩, pinyin: Dèng Fúēn) was a teacher and colporteur in Oklahoma and New Mexico and a long-term missionary to China and Taiwan. Dunn remained in China during World War II, continuing her evangelistic work in “Free China.” After the war she continued as a Bible worker and educator until China expelled foreign missionaries after the Communists won the Chinese Civil War, at which time she was transferred to Taiwan. Dunn was notable for her encouragement of, and participation in, the education and training of local Chinese women as Bible workers.
Chinese Union Mission China Biography Educators Missionaries Women
Brian Dunn was the first Seventh-day Adventist in mission service in the South Pacific Islands to lose his life by violent means in the course of duty.
South Pacific Division Biography Died/Imprisoned for Faith Missionaries
Julio David Dupertuis was one of the first people to learn about the Adventist message in Argentina.
Loreto Desquitado Duriquez was an Adventist minister and administrator from the Philippines.
A. N. Durrant was an outstandingly energetic and pioneering Jamaican Seventh-day Adventist pastor-evangelist and one of the earliest Adventist converts in his country.