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Sidney Cole was a food chemist who was influential in development and research for Seventh-day Adventist food companies in Australia and South and Central America and became director of the International Health Food Association for the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.
Anna and George Wood, from Australia, committed their lives in service to the people of Java and Sumatra. After Anna Wood’s death, George Wood died in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in 1944.
South Pacific Division Biography Missionaries Died/Imprisoned for Faith
John and Melva Lee served 34 of their 39 years of denominational employment in the South Pacific mission fields of Papua New Guinea, Tonga, and the Solomon Islands. Melva Lee trained as a nurse and used her knowledge and skills to treat disease and teach the principles of healthy living. John Lee trained as a teacher. After a period of school and system-wide leadership in education he was ordained, assuming leadership responsibility at local church, mission and union levels of the church structure.
Margherita Freeman was the first female Seventh-day Adventist in Australasia to graduate from university medical studies.
South Pacific Division Biography Groundbreakers Medical Workers Women
As a pastor of the early Korean Adventist church, Choi Tai-hyun was one of the martyrs who were persecuted and eventually executed because of their faith by the Japanese military during Japan’s occupation of the Korean peninsula in the Second World War.
Northern Asia-Pacific Division Biography Died/Imprisoned for Faith
Frederick Paap was born in New Zealand. He was a pastor who was for a time the head of the Home Missionary Department at the General Conference in Washington, D.C.
William Gordon Turner was an Adventist pastor and administrator who held numerous administrative positions in the Seventh-day Adventist Church. He served as president of the Australasian Division based in Sydney, and also a vice president of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists based in Washington, D.C.
William R. Guthrie, minister and conference president, served as president of the Canadian Union Conference and the Lake Union Conference.
W. T. Knox, treasurer of the General Conference (1909-1922) and the first president of the Pacific Union Conference (1901-1904), was noted for administrative acumen in fostering the development of organizational structures and institutions that would shape Adventist life into the 21st century.
Maude Miller was the first Adventist missionary who died in China, the foreign country to which she dedicated her selfless service.
Chinese Union Mission Biography Died/Imprisoned for Faith Missionaries Women
Stenographer, private secretary, editor, bibliophile, researcher, author, and trusted literary assistant to Ellen G. White, Clarence Crisler was also a missionary, missiologist, and administrator.
Alfred John Dyason was an inspirational leader for Sabbath School, Home Missions, and Youth in five Australian states and New Zealand.
Ole Oppegard, a pioneer from Norway, served in Argentina as a literature evangelist and as the first Adventist missionary in South America dedicated to medical missionary efforts.
South American Division Biography Groundbreakers Missionaries
The West Puerto Rico Conference was established in 1969 and is one of four conferences in the Puerto Rico Union.
Clifford L. Bauer, a conference administrator in the United States and South America, served the Pacific Union Conference for more than 20 years, first as secretary-treasurer and then as president.
Franklin E. Belden was the most prolific writer of hymn tunes, gospel songs, and related texts in the early years of the Seventh-day Adventist church, and was prominent in various facets of the church’s publishing work.
As the founding teacher of the denomination’s first official sponsored school, Goodloe Harper Bell is considered by some historians as the “founder” of the educational work of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
Harry Benson served for over 35 years as a minister and missionary teacher in Japan and Korea. He was the longest serving expatriate missionary in the Far Eastern Division during the pre-Second World War years.
Ernest Chapman was an Australian missionary to India.
Maria Haseneder served the Seventh-day Adventist Church for 35 years as a nurse, medical missionary, teacher, and medical consultant in Ethiopia, Switzerland, the Belgian Congo, Ruanda-Urundi, South Africa, and India.
Inter-European Division Biography Educators Missionaries Medical Workers Women