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Heung-Cho Sohn was the first Korean Adventist to be baptized in Japan along with Eung-Hyun Lee, who laid the foundation for the Korean Adventist Church.
Lula Edna Padgett-Roache established an accredited nursing program at Oakwood College (now a university) that continues to produce certified health-care professionals.
For more than four decades Adell Warren, Sr., served the Seventh-day Adventist Church as the business manager of Oakwood College in Huntsville, Alabama, and Riverside Sanitarium in Nashville, Tennessee.
Julius and Nellie Böttcher worked as teachers and missionaries, and Julius was an administrator for the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the United States, Germany, Switzerland, and what was then the Russian Empire.
Inter-European Division Biography Educators Missionaries Couples
Lyman Bowers, a printer, accountant, and institutional manager, and Ella Mae (Chatterton) Bowers, a teacher, served together as missionaries in Asia for 25 years.
Dr. C. Joan Coggin, pediatric cardiologist, co-founded the Loma Linda University Overseas Heart Surgery Team which initiated and upgraded open-heart surgery programs in hospitals around the world.
North American Division Biography Groundbreakers Educators Medical Workers Women
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.
Niels B. Jörgensen, DDS, pioneered use of intravenous sedation combined with a local anesthetic in dental operations, a breakthrough that became known as the “Loma Linda Technique.”
North American Division Biography Educators Groundbreakers Medical Workers
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.
Worthie Holden was an author whose poems frequently were featured in the Review, sometimes on the front cover.
George and Alicia Marriott were among the earliest missionaries for the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Fiji Islands.
South Pacific Division Biography Groundbreakers Missionaries Couples
Alfred Walter Martin was a missionary, educator, and administrator from Australia.
Lillian Dale (Avery) Stuttle was an editor, poet, hymn writer, and author of Adventist conduct literature.
Shuichi Tatsuguchi’s life was one of significant service to Adventist medical evangelism in the United States and Japan. From the 1890s through the 1930s, Tatsuguchi’s commitment to Adventism was apparent in both his personal life and in his work in Hiroshima, where his faith increasingly placed him—and his family—at odds with Japanese authorities in the decades leading into the Asia-Pacific War. “[O]ne of the first Japanese” to covert to Adventism, Tatsuguchi and his family became key figures in Adventist communities on both sides of the Pacific.
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.
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.
Lilakai (Lily) Neil was the first Navajo to become a Seventh-day Adventist and the first woman to become a member of the Navajo Nation Council.
Roscoe Sydney Lowry contributed to the Seventh-day Adventist Church as an educator and as the longest serving president of the Southern Asia Division; while his wife, Jessie Louise, supported his ministry as a teacher, office staff, and musician.
Richard B. Craig was a canvasser for more than forty years in the United States and Argentina.
Boliu Hospital on the Island of Mussau, Papua New Guinea was opened in 1955. It was closed in 1977 when a government facility opened approximately thirty minutes’ walk from the mission station.