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Hilliard Christian School is a coeducational day school for students from pre-kindergarten to grade 10, located in the suburb of Moonah in Hobart, the capital city of the state of Tasmania in Australia.
The North New South Wales Conference is a constituent of the Australian Union Conference in the South Pacific Division of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.
Lauretta Eby Kress, the first female physician to practice in Montgomery County, Maryland, was widely respected for her skill as an obstetrician and her expertise in women’s health and prenatal care. She and her husband, Daniel H. Kress, founded Adventist sanitariums and promoted public health in England, Australia, and the United States.
North American Division Biography Groundbreakers Medical Workers Women
New Zealand born Henry Kirk served as a teacher in mathematics at the Australasian Missionary College in New South Wales, Australia. For a brief time in the early 1920s he held the position of principal at the college and later became principal of New Zealand Missionary College at Longburn.
William and Marguerite Lock were missionaries to Papua New Guinea.
Ralph and Betty Murray gave 31 years of practical ministry, paid and voluntary constructing buildings for the Adventist mission work in Papua New Guinea and the South Sea Islands. He died in an accident in Samoa while in active service when 61 years of age.
G. Ralph Thompson was executive secretary of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists for 20 years (1980-2000)—the longest period of service in this position in the denomination’s history. Thompson also served as acting president of the General Conference for three weeks in 1999. He was a vice president of the General Conference from 1975 to 1980.
Walter Miller, a printer, was an early convert to the Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) faith in Melbourne, Australia.
The Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) Church in the South Pacific region has been fortunate that issues of military service have been relatively few and that national governments in the region have been prepared to work cooperatively with the Church on practical solutions that have met the needs of governments while respecting the SDA stand on noncombatancy.
Edward Hare and his wife, Elizabeth, were the first known Seventh-day Adventists in New Zealand.
The Madang Manus Mission is the Seventh-day Adventist administrative entity for the Madang Region of mainland Papua New Guinea and the islands of Manus, also known as the Admiralty Islands, off the north coast of the mainland. Its headquarters are in Madang, Papua New Guinea.
William and Jessie Litster served the Seventh-day Adventist church in various capacities in Samoa, Fiji, and Australia.
James William Kent, a Seventh-day Adventist pastor and evangelist in Australia and New Zealand, pioneered inner-city evangelism. In his eighties, Kent championed the rebuttal of the “new theology” promoted by Desmond Ford.
Thomas and Edith Howse spent almost fifty years working for the Seventh-day Adventist Church. They were pioneer missionaries in Samoa and served in other islands as well as in Australia and New Zealand.
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Edward Clarence Halsey was a baker who was invited to come to Australia from the United States. He was responsible for developing many of the health-food products which were to become icons for Sanitarium Health food Company in the South Pacific.
Marcel and Dorothy Fernandez were missionaries in Tahiti and Cameroon.
Vesta Farnsworth was an author and editor.
Eva Edwards was a teacher in Australia and New Zealand and a missionary to Tonga and Fiji.
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Andrew William Dawson, general manager of the Sanitarium Health Food Company and manager of Australasian Conference Association, Ltd.
Nurse Pocock was known and respected as a midwife and founded a small hospital in Cooranbong, New South Wales, Australia.
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