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Reinhardt Hetze was one of the first Adventists in South America and the first person to accept the Adventist message through the missionary work of Geörg (Jorge) Heinrich Riffel (1850-1917) in Argentina.
Francis James Butler's long denominational service included various administrative positions in Australia.
Joseph and Mabel Watson were pioneer missionaries to Africa.
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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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Charles de Vere Bell, known as Vere, was a versatile teacher, minister, and director of the Advent Bible School for the Australasian Union Conference.
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.
Charles and Eulalia Tucker were missionaries at Aore in the New Hebrides and at Batuna in the Solomon Islands in the years leading up to World War II.
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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Originally owned and operated by the Seventh-day Adventist Church, Nutana was a health food factory in Denmark.
Nyhyttan Health and Medical Centre was an Adventist health resort in the deep woods of an isolated region in Mid-Sweden. In 1898 when the Nyhyttan property was purchased, the Adventist church membership in the area was around 700, mostly people of lesser means. So it was indeed a venture in faith. It lasted for almost 100 years.
John Muderspach was a highly respected leader who was known for his professional skills in business and finance and who in the middle of the hustle and bustle of his work found time to be human in the best sense of the word. He served the church for 47 years in Denmark, West and East Africa, as well as at the Headquarters of the Northern European/Trans-European Division.
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.
Maui Pomare was the first Maori New Zealander to qualify as a physician.
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Jennie L. Ireland (1871-1961) served the Adventist cause through publishing, healthcare, pastoral ministry, evangelism, Bible worker training, and conference departmental leadership. As a white woman, one of her defining achievements was partnering with Black Americans in Los Angeles to start the first successful Black Adventist church west of the Mississippi River.
Daniel Nestares was a pastor, church institutional and field administrator, and department director in the Austral Union Conference of the South American Division as well as in the Philippines and Nepal.
Jonathan Trumbull Orton was an early convert to Sabbatarian Adventism in Rochester, New York.
Daniel R. Palmer was a prosperous shopkeeper noted for generous support of the Adventist movement.
Rufus W. Parmele was a minister, president of three conferences in the American South, and pioneering mission administrator in the territory that became the Inter-American Division.
The Pennsylvania Conference is an administrative union of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Columbia Union Conference.