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James H. Howard was a federal government clerk, physician, pioneer of Seventh-day Adventism in Washington, D.C. and eloquent opponent of racial segregation in the church.
Fernando Chaij was an outstanding Adventist scholar, pastor, administrator, writer, editor, and religious freedom supporter from Argentina. His ministry strengthened the church in South and Central America, and in the United States of America.
Vere Fitzroy Chamberlayne was a literature evangelist of English origin. He was converted to Adventism in Patagonia, Argentina, through contact with the canvassing program to which he then dedicated his life.
Arnaldo Benedicto Christianini was a pioneering Seventh-day Adventist pastor, editor, and educator.
North Caucasus Mission is a part of the Caucasus Union Mission in the Euro-Asia Division of Seventh-day Adventists. It was organized in 2001, and its territory was reorganized in 2017. Its headquarters is in Mineralnye Vody, Stavropol Territory, Russian Federation.
Alexander Fyodorovich Parasey was an Adventist pastor, translator, and church administrator in Ukraine.
Charles and Beatrice Baron accepted an appointment on Lord Howe island in 1894. They also served on Norfolk Island, New Zealand and Australia, sometimes as paid workers and sometimes self-supporting.
Ministry is an international periodical edited and published bimonthly by the Brazil Publishing House.
John Ives Tay was a carpenter, machinist, and inventor. Hannah Tay was a seamstress. Together they served as pioneer Adventist missionaries across the Pacific Ocean.
North American Division Biography Groundbreakers Missionaries Died/Imprisoned for Faith
Isaac Doren Van Horn was an evangelist, minister, and conference president. Among his many roles, Van Horn is credited with bringing Seventh-day Adventism to the Pacific Northwest and establishing the first Adventist church in Walla Walla, Washington.
George Vandeman was an ordained Adventist minister, founder of the It Is Written telecast, and its lead speaker for thirty-four years.
Jasper Wayne was an Adventist layperson and entrepreneur who started the practice of “Harvest Ingathering” (the “harvest” prefix was dropped in April 1942). During Ingathering, Adventists would appeal for funds from the general public to be used for missionary purposes.
Godofredo Block was one of the first ordained Adventist ministers in Argentina and an influential pastor and evangelist, especially among the German communities in the country.
Bernardo Einrich Schünemann contributed more than 35 years as an administrator to the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Brazil and 26 years as manager of the Brazil Publishing House.
Luther Loomis Howard II, evangelist and first president of the Maine Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, was born on October 18, 1825, in Leeds, Androscoggin County, Maine, to Luther Loomis Howard, Sr. and Rhoda Mitchell Howard. Five months later, Luther, Sr. died and two years after that, Rhoda married Luther’s brother, Warren.
In the early 1900s, because educational opportunities were rare, correspondence education was increasing in popularity within the United States. Adventist educators at Walla Walla College and Keene Academy had attempted to develop correspondence schools. Goodloe Harper Bell, the first teacher of the first Adventist school, who is also considered to be the founder of Adventist education, hoped to develop such an organization. Eventually, Bell collaborated with educator Frederick Griggs, secretary of education for the General Conference, who envisioned educating people around the world. As a result, The Fireside Correspondence School was established in 1909. The goal was to provide the benefits of an education to those unable to attend traditional schools.
George William Greer taught voice and conducted choirs at several Adventist schools in an influential career especially noted for innovation and excellence in a cappella choral music.
Germano João Frederico Conrad, canvasser, evangelist, and administrator, was born April 9, 1887, in Campos dos Quevedos, in the municipality of São Lourenço do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul.
Richard B. Craig was a canvasser for more than forty years in the United States and Argentina.
Maud Sisley Boyd was a Bible teacher, editor, compositor, Bible worker, school matron, and missionary. She was the first woman missionary sent by the Seventh-day Adventist Church’s Foreign Mission Board.
North American Division Biography Groundbreakers Missionaries Women
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