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Baldur Pfeiffer was both an important Adventist mission historian – one of the first to explore Adventist missionary impulses coming from Europe – and a dedicated humanitarian. He contributed both to the Seventh-day Adventist denomination and to the landscape of education and humanitarian work internationally by building up institutions and organizations such as Middle East College, Theologische Hochschule Friedensau, the European Adventist Archives, and Support Africa.
Inter-European Division Biography Educators Groundbreakers Missionaries
Oliver S. Beltz was among the most influential musicians in the Seventh-day Adventist Church during the twentieth century.
Oscar Olsen (or Olson) served as a missionary, first in Sweden as a publishing director and later in Persia as an education, publishing, and youth director.
Middle East and North Africa Union Mission Biography Groundbreakers Missionaries
The Battle Creek Sanitarium was a world-renowned Adventist health resort in Battle Creek, Michigan, United States.
Issa George Kharma was an Adventist educator with a pastoral touch. His high standards as well as his kind and constructive guidance inspired many young people, and his name became closely connected with Adventist elementary and secondary education in Lebanon.
The genesis and growth of literature by Adventist Caribbean writers in the Caribbean Union cannot be separated from the growth of the repository of what is officially termed “West Indian Literature,” a twentieth-century phenomenon because of the historical/political reality in the region. The growth of Adventist Literature in the Caribbean Union was fostered by the existence of magazines and journals, which allowed for literary expression.
Nikolai Mikhailovich Arefyev served the Seventh-day Adventist Church as a pastor and administrator in the city of Leningrad (now St. Petersburg, Russia) in the 1920s and 1930s.
Paul N. Pearce was a college professor, a promoter of Adventist radio in its earliest years, an editor, and an active lay member of the church after his relatively brief career in Adventist denominational employment.
Faith for Today, a television ministry sponsored by the Seventh-day Adventist Church, became the first national religious telecast in North America within a few months of its first broadcast in New York City in 1950.1 Instead of making preaching its central feature, the ministry has for more than 70 years offered programming in a variety of formats intended to draw viewers to the gospel message by showing how it connects with contemporary issues.
George Arthur Keough was an educator, administrator, editor, and missionary who served the Seventh-day Adventist Church for 57 years on four continents. He founded Middle East College and later served as its president. He was the author of four books, several adult Sabbath School quarterlies, and numerous articles.
Middle East and North Africa Union Mission Biography Groundbreakers
Sarah Peck was an educational pioneer and curriculum author, and a literary assistant to Ellen G. White.
North American Division Biography Educators Groundbreakers Women
Dr. Carl Ottosen was a founder, promoter, and leader of the Seventh-day Adventist health work in Scandinavia. Together with his wife, Johanne Pauline, he founded Frydenstrand Sanatorium and Skodsborg Sanatorium in Denmark, following Dr. John Harvey Kellogg’s model from Battle Creek in America. His influence and groundbreaking work set a new trend for preventive and curative health work in Denmark and earned him the respect of his colleagues and the order of Knight of Dannebrog from the Danish king.2 He was a strong supporter and participant of the Adventist church work in his home country, Denmark.
Trans-European Division Biography Groundbreakers Medical Workers
Floyd Greenleaf was a history professor, academic administrator, and author of several influential works on Seventh-day Adventist history.
During his lengthy career as an editor and author, Calvin P. Bollman was connected with all three of the major Seventh-day Adventist publishing associations then operating in North America and helped edit several leading periodicals, including Signs of the Times, Review and Herald, and Liberty. He also contributed in multiple ways to the early development of denominational institutions in the American South.
Asa O. Tait was an editor of the evangelistic periodical "Signs of the Times" for more than three decades.
Brian S. Bull was a Seventh-day Adventist physician, educator, research scientist, inventor, administrator, and philanthropist, who worked during most of his professional career for Loma Linda University (LLU) in Southern California.
Diran Tcharakian was a poet, artist, author, university professor, and convinced atheist before he became a Seventh-day Adventist minister and modern-day Paul in Turkey’s Ottoman Empire. Following in the steps of Adventist pioneers Theodore Anthony and Zadour Baharian, he became known as “the new apostle” to the interior of Asia Minor, where in the end he sacrificed his life for the Adventist cause.
Middle East and North Africa Union Mission Biography Educators Missionaries Died/Imprisoned for Faith
Judson and Minnie James were the first Adventist missionary in South India.
Southern Asia Division Biography Groundbreakers Missionaries Couples
Edwin was a professor at Washington Missionary College (1915-1920). Later he became a prominent lawyer and law professor, serving for most of his career at Northwestern University. Barbara was a musician and professor of harmony and music history.
Lie Sek Hong, later also known as Dr. Elisha Liwidjaja, was a dedicated Adventist layperson who generously contributed his time and wealth to the development of the Adventist mission work in Indonesia.
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