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Grace Edith Amadon was a musician, teacher, illustrator, and writer. She served in North America and South Africa.
Lewis Allan Butler (known as Allan and subsequently referred to as Allan to distinguish him from his father, Lewis Butler) was a business studies graduate from Australasian Missionary College who gave 45 years of service to the Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) Church in the Australasian Division (now South Pacific Division) as accountant, manager, teacher, evangelist, and administrator, with seven years as a conference president.
Charles and Violet Wittschiebe were educators, missionaries to China, and World War II Japanese internment camp survivors. Charles served as a religion professor at Southern Missionary College and the Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary, first in Washington D.C. and later Berrien Springs, MI. Charles authored three books, his best-known of which is God Invented Sex.
Harold Bulmer Priestly Wicks was a missionary to the Cook Islands, Solomon Islands, and Tahiti. His first wife, Madeline, was a devoted missionary who died of a stroke in the Cook Islands. Gwendolen served with Harold in Queensland and New South Wales, Australia.
South Pacific Division Biography Missionaries Died/Imprisoned for Faith
Norman and Alma Wiles were among the first missionaries to Malekula Island, New Hebrides. After just a few years on Malekula, Norman Wiles died of blackwater fever. After her husband’s death Alma Wiles served in New Guinea, Australia, Nigeria, and the United States as a nurse specializing in tropical diseases and midwifery.
South Pacific Division Biography Groundbreakers Missionaries Died/Imprisoned for Faith
Adventist Academy-Bacolod (AA-B), formerly Negros Mission Academy (NMA), is part of the worldwide Seventh-day Adventist educational system. Furthermore, the school received full accreditation by the Adventist Accreditation Agency from April 2013 to April 2016 and a level II accreditation from the Association of Christian Schools, Colleges, and Universities–Accrediting Agency Incorporated (ACSU–AAI) from November 10, 2013, to December 31, 2014.
William Lawrence Murrill was a church planter, pastor, educator, administrator, treasurer, missionary, missiologist, and philantrophist.
Elwin Snyder was a missionary in Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay, and Cuba with his wife, Jane Ketring, and was one of the first canvassers sent from the United States to South America.
Walter Johanson worked for the Seventh-day Adventist Church for thirty years, working in finance and management. The last nine years of his working life were spent as the manager of the Signs Publishing Company in Warburton, Victoria, Australia.
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
Southern Luzon Mission is located in Bicol Region 5, Philippines.
Albert Hessel was a German missionary to Ethiopia and Iran.
Esther Bergman was a leading medical missionary nurse and educator in the United States and in Ethiopia, where she made a critical contribution to the early development of Adventist mission.
North American Division Biography Died/Imprisoned for Faith Missionaries Medical Workers Women
Pastor Jesse P. Acosta, Sr. was a colporteur, minister/evangelist, and leader from the Philippines.
One of the first Koreans to become an Adventist, Eung Hyun Lee, was baptized by Kuniya Hide in Kobe, Japan, in 1904.
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.