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Loretta Farnsworth is credited with being the first Seventh-day Adventist Bible worker. She served as a pioneer city mission worker, evangelist, pioneer missionary to South Africa and Australia, chaplain, and religion teacher.
North American Division Biography Groundbreakers Missionaries Women
Ana Stahl was a nurse, an educator, and a pioneer missionary with her husband, Fernando (1874-1950), to South America for three decades. Ana Stahl was remembered as the “Florence Nightingale of the Peruvian jungle.”
Missionary to China, colporteur, fundraiser for Adventist and Red Cross hospitals and educational institutions, writer, and public speaker. Oss witnessed the Shanghai incident and the Second Sino-Japanese War in Shanghai and was a World War II Japanese concentration-camp survivor. Oss with her husband John returned to China after recuperating in the United States and stayed until they were forced to leave by the Communist Chinese government in 1950.
Chinese Union Mission Biography Missionaries Died/Imprisoned for Faith Women
Florence Muriel Howe was a nurse and missionary to China and Africa.
South Pacific Division Biography Missionaries Medical Workers Women
John Howse was a Seventh-day Adventist minister and pioneer Pacific Islands’ missionary who together with Merle spent about 40 years of their lives in four different island groups - Samoa, Solomon Islands, Kiribati and Tuvalu - as well as some years in New Zealand ministering to congregations largely consisting of members of island origin.
South Pacific Division Biography Groundbreakers Missionaries Couples
Doctor Noel Pavitt Clapham, Ph.D., Dip. Ed. Admin., was a Seventh-day Adventist educator who spent more than three decades lecturing at Avondale College in New South Wales, Australia, also contributing strongly to the music program of the college and in the community.
The South New South Wales Conference is a constituent of the Australian Union Conference. Its headquarters are located at 3 McKay Gardens, Turner, Australian Capital Territory (ACT), Australia. Its unincorporated activities are governed by a constitution based on the model conference constitution of the South Pacific Division of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists (SPD). Its real and intellectual property is held in trust by the Australasian Conference Association Limited, an incorporated entity based at the headquarters office of the SPD in Wahroonga, New South Wales.
The acronym ALINSA, which means Alimentos Integronaturales, S.A., constitutes the legal name of the Adventist health food brand commercially known as Alimentos COLPAC in Mexico.
Otto E. Reinke gave leadership to Adventist mission work in the United States, Switzerland, Germany, and Russia. During World War I and the Russian Revolution of 1917, he persisted in leading the church forward in the face of severe hardship, violent upheaval, and repression, until exhaustion and illness led to his death at age 46.
North American Division Biography Missionaries Died/Imprisoned for Faith
Alvin Nathan Allen, pastor, evangelist and missionary, was born in Portage, Wisconsin, on June 25, 1880.
Marvin E. Loewen served as a pastor-evangelist and administrator in China, the Philippines, and the United States, and as director of Department of Public Affairs and Religious Liberty at the General Conference.
William (Bill) Wilson was the longest serving manager of the Church’s Sanitarium Health Food Factory at Cooranbong, occupying that position for almost 30 years. During that time he worked closely with Avondale College and was very involved in community outreach in the Lake Macquarie and Newcastle districts.
The Sydney Adventist Hospital is owned and operated by the South Pacific Division of Seventh-day Adventists. It is located in suburban Sydney at Wahroonga, NSW, Australia. It was opened on January 1, 1903.
Born in New Zealand, John Keith entered the ministry of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in 1937 in Victoria, Australia. He later became a union president in two unions in the Australasian Division.
Niue is a large coral atoll in the South Pacific.One young woman of Niuean-Samoan parents, Vaiola Malama Kerisome, became a Seventh-day Adventist while overseas and returned to Niue in 1915 as a self-supporting missionary.
South Pacific Division Niue Country (Based on SDA membership)
Bass Memorial Academy is a regionally and denominationally accredited co-educational boarding high school operated by the Gulf States Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.
North American Division United States Educational Institutions
Battle Creek Academy (BCA) is a K-12 Seventh-day Adventist day school located in Battle Creek, Michigan.
Chuck Loreto O. Garcia IV was an Adventist missionary doctor, singer, and administrator from the Philippines.
Charles W. Irwin was a professor and educational administrator who gave leadership to the early development of three schools that would become major Adventist institutions of higher learning: the Southern Industrial School (later Southern Adventist University), the Avondale School for Christian Workers (later Avondale University College), and Pacific Union College.
Minnie Hawkins Crisler was a proofreader and editor for multiple denominational papers, one of the first teachers at Avondale School and at Far Eastern Academy, a missionary to China, a World War II Japanese internment camp survivor, and a literary assistant to Ellen G. White.
North American Division Biography Educators Groundbreakers Missionaries Died/Imprisoned for Faith Women