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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.
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Metcalfe Hare played a crucial role in the establishment of Avondale College and helped in turning the fledgling Australian Health Food industry into a profitable enterprise.
Severino Jutba Balansag, Sr. was an Adventist literature evangelist, pastor, church leader, and administrator.
Yuka Adventist Mission Hospital is owned and operated by the Southern Zambia Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.
Fred L. Mead was an early leader in Adventist colporteur ministry and, with his wife Rosie Cochran Mead, among the church’s earliest missionaries to the indigenous people of southern Africa.
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The first Adventist missionaries arrived in British East Africa in 1906. They primarily focused their work on the African people. The mission work among the European settlers came later, specifically through the period 1911 to 1963.
Fred H. Seeney, pastor-evangelist, raised up the earliest Black Adventist congregations in Delaware and Maryland, and was prominent in the early development of the church’s work in Washington, D.C.
Romualdo Kalbermatter was a descendant of one of the first Adventist families in Argentina, administrator of medical institutions in Church fields, and pioneer of an Adventist Sanitarium in the north of Argentina.
Alfred and Carrie Robie from North America were pioneers of the Avondale Health Retreat in Cooranbong, New South Wales, Australia. Subsequently they were moved to a similar facility that was being established in Rockhampton, Queensland but the enterprise was short-lived and they returned to the United States.
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John Gottlieb Matteson (b. Johannes Gottlieb Mathiesen) was a minister, editor, and pioneer missionary in Scandinavia.
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Julius Edward Jayne served as the president of the Conference and Tract Society; editor of The Home Missionary; secretary of the Foreign Mission Board; and president of the Southern New England Conference, Greater New York Conference, and British Union Conference.
After initial organization as a denomination in 1863, the Seventh-day Adventist Church underwent a period of organizational reform between 1901 and 1903 which resulted in a modified Church structure.
Maui Pomare was the first Maori New Zealander to qualify as a physician.
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