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William Elmer Perrin served the Seventh-day Adventist Church as a pioneer missionary, printer, administrator, and editor, with his wife, Sarah, in the United States, Canada, and the Southern Asia Division.
Southern Asia Division Biography Groundbreakers Couples Missionaries
Ellsworth E. Wareham, pioneering cardiothoracic surgeon and co-founder of the Loma Linda University Overseas Heart Surgery Team, also became widely known during the final 15 years of his life for the vigorous health that made him an exemplar of the Loma Linda, California, region in “The Blue Zones” longevity study.
North American Division Biography Groundbreakers Medical Workers
Anton Hugo Weil was an Australian missionary to the New Hebrides (Vanuatu).
Lionel Brooking, English Adventist nurse, canvasser, teacher, was one of the first converts and missionaries in Argentina.
John Lewis Brown was an Adventist pastor, missionary in three continents, pioneer in El Salvador and the Amazon region of Brazil, diffuser of Adventist publications and church administrator.
Howard Francis Rampton served the Seventh-day Adventist church in literature evangelism, pastoral evangelism, and as a departmental director at conference, division and General Conference level.
Petra (Tunheim) Skadsheim was a pioneer missionary in Southeast Asia. Ultimately she gave her life in service in the mission field to which she committed her life.
South Pacific Division Biography Groundbreakers Missionaries Died/Imprisoned for Faith Women
Johann H. Effenberg was a German pioneer missionary to China for 23 years.
Inter-European Division Biography Groundbreakers Missionaries
Helen Williams was a pioneering minister, Bible worker, teacher, and missionary in South Africa.
North American Division Biography Educators Groundbreakers Women Missionaries
Stanley and Greta Gander were Australian missionaries to Papua New Guinea.
The mission work among the Baluba people of the Democratic Republic of Congo was established in 1921 on a 500-acre (200 hectares) plot at Songa. The medical work began June 8, 1927, with the arrival of Dr. J. Hubert Sturges and his wife, Violet. They first treated patients on the veranda of their thatch-roofed house. Because of fear and superstition, few patients came, and many village people even fled from their homes.
Kendu Adventist Hospital is the oldest and largest Adventist medical facility in Kenya.
William Ralph Howse was an Australian Seventh-day Adventist printer who ran printing presses at Adventist mission stations in French Polynesia and in the Cook Islands and then worked in Australia for almost 15 years at Signs Press at Warburton, Victoria, and 17 years at Avondale Press at Cooranbong, New South Wales.
Australians by birth, Allan and Ivy Maberly were pioneering Seventh-day Adventist missionaries to Tibet.
South Pacific Division Biography Groundbreakers Missionaries Couples
Ernest Steed, an Australian pastor, was distinguished by his commitment to principles of good health, and particularly to the temperance activities of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
Adventist Media (AM) is the official media production entity for the South Pacific Division (SPD). AM operates at two locations: The Adventist Media building adjacent to the SPD administrative offices in Fox Valley Road, Wahroonga, Sydney, Australia, and at Signs Publishing in Warburton, Victoria.
Gilbert Temple Wilson was a church administrator, including New Zealand Conference president.
Esda Sales and Service (Esda) was an agency of the South Pacific Division under the auspices of its treasury department located in New South Wales, Australia. Initially its office was situated in Hardy’s Chambers, 5 Hunter Street, Sydney. Subsequently, its operations moved to the Division Services Building at 83 Hunter Street, Hornsby, on the northern edge of metropolitan Sydney and close to the South Pacific Division headquarters. Esda Sales and Service was discontinued at the end of 1988. Many of its functions were transferred to the South Pacific Division under what was known as "Central Supplies."
Charles Edward Dudley, Sr. minister and conference president, was one of the Seventh-day Adventist Church’s leading advocates for racial justice and structural change during the second half of the twentieth century.
Hadley Memorial Hospital served a densely populated, predominantly black, low-income section of Washington, D.C. It was the only Seventh-day Adventist hospital in the District of Columbia until it was sold in 1990.