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A. H. Williams was a pioneer missionary, church administrator, and medical director who served the Seventh-day Adventist Church with Mabel, his first wife, a teacher and midwife, in the Southern Asia Division, and with Iris, his second wife, a midwife, in Watford, England.
Southern Asia Division Biography Groundbreakers Missionaries Couples
UNADECA is a Seventh-day Adventist co-educational university located in Alajuela, Costa Rica. It exists to offer Christian university education to Central American youth and others who will then provide needed leadership and professional services to the Seventh-day Adventist Church and society in general.
Pastor James Kio was the fifth president of the Edo-Delta Mission of the Nigeria Union Mission from 1998 through its elevation to conference status in 2002 and continued in this role until his retirement in 2004.
Palenque Mission is a part of Chiapas Mexican Union Conference in the Inter-American Division of Seventh-day Adventists.
Charles M. Kinny was the first African American ordained minister in the history of the Seventh-day Adventist church subsequent to organization of the General Conference in 1863.
Sine Renlev was Denmark’s first female Seventh-day Adventist preacher. With her pleasant personality, her guitar, and her beautiful singing voice, she drew large numbers to her Bible lectures in public halls, tents, or the homes of interested people. Having become a Seventh-day Adventist in 1879, she almost immediately set out to preach the present truth, and no one could stop her from sharing her newfound faith.
Trans-European Division Denmark Biography Groundbreakers Women
The South Queensland Conference is a constituent conference of the Australian Union Conference.
Josephine Gotzian was one of the wealthiest and most consistent financiers of early Adventism from the time of her conversion in the early 1880s to the end of her life. She was a close friend and confidant of Ellen G. White.
Edith M. Graham held multiple church leadership responsibilities in Australia and New Zealand and served as head of the Home Missionary Department of the General Conference.
William Calhoun Grainger was an educator, college president, and pioneer missionary to Japan.
Miles Grant, an Advent Christian leader and editor of The World’s Crisis and Second Advent Messenger, was a vocal opponent of Seventh-day Adventism.
Heman and Eliza Gurney were early Millerite believers and close friends of Joseph Bates. They were among the first to accept the seventh-day Sabbath and became stalwart supporters of James and Ellen White.
Harbor Springs Convention (July 15 – August 17, 1891) is noted by Adventist historians as a decisive “turning point” in the development of Adventist education because during that meeting the Church embarked on creating a distinctive philosophy of Adventist education. This “educational convention” held in Harbor Springs, Michigan was the first meeting of its kind held by the Church.
George T. Harding II, M.D., hospital founder and administrator, was instrumental in initiating Adventist involvement in the field of psychiatry.
North American Division Biography Groundbreakers Medical Workers
Walter Harper was one of the pioneers of colporteur work in the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Ellen White wrote counsels to him during his two divorces.
Josiah Sidney Hart was a pioneer Adventist minister and evangelist in the Iowa Conference.
Thomas Wilson Steen was an educator, administrator, minister, and psychologist.
Guilherme Stein Jr. was the first citizen to be baptized as a Seventh-day Adventist in Brazil.
Conrad F. Stoehr was a pastor, teacher, principal, and evangelist for the Seventh-day Adventist Church in South America.
Pioneer Adventist missionaries to China. Winferd’s Chinese name was 漢謹思 温弗雷德 (Hànjǐnsī Wēnfúléidé) and Bessie’s (or Bess’) was 漢謹思 贝西 (Hànjǐnsī Bèixī). Together they would spend fourteen years, primarily based around Amoy (Xiamen), building up an Adventist missionary presence through evangelism, distributing and translating literature, organizing churches and training workers, and in particular for Bessie, teaching school and ministering to women.
Chinese Union Mission China Biography Educators Missionaries Couples
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