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Riley Russell (露說, Rho Seol) was the first medical missionary to enter Korea as a medical doctor. He devoted himself to missionary work and medical service in Korea for 15 years as the director of Soonan Dispensary-Hospital, the head of the Workers’ Training School, and the director of the West Chosen Mission.
Northern Asia-Pacific Division Biography Groundbreakers Missionaries Medical Workers Couples
Rufus and Theodora Wangerin were a missionary couple who led the missionary work of the Korean Adventist Church in the early days.
Northern Asia-Pacific Division Biography Groundbreakers Missionaries Died/Imprisoned for Faith
Abbie Florence Dunn (Chinese name: 鄧福恩, pinyin: Dèng Fúēn) was a teacher and colporteur in Oklahoma and New Mexico and a long-term missionary to China and Taiwan. Dunn remained in China during World War II, continuing her evangelistic work in “Free China.” After the war she continued as a Bible worker and educator until China expelled foreign missionaries after the Communists won the Chinese Civil War, at which time she was transferred to Taiwan. Dunn was notable for her encouragement of, and participation in, the education and training of local Chinese women as Bible workers.
Chinese Union Mission China Biography Educators Missionaries Women
Donald Nathan Holm was a medical doctor and a missionary who served his calling to the people of the Far Eastern and the Afro-Mideast Divisions and helped pioneer the medical mission work there.
Carrie Ericksen was a missionary nurse to China in the early 1900s. Her Chinese name was 艾瑞克 (Pinyin ài ruì kè).
Chinese Union Mission Biography Missionaries Medical Workers Women
Henry Albert Novak was a missionary medical doctor, hospital director, and World War II veteran.
John Nevins Andrews, M.D., and Dorothy Spicer Andrews pioneered Adventist mission to the people of Tibet. John was the namesake of his grandfather, John Nevins Andrews (1829-1883), Adventist scholar and first missionary to Europe.
Arthur Eugene Anderson was a pastor and the only Seventh-day Adventist missionary to the Chin people of Burma (now Myanmar).
Southern Asia-Pacific Division Biography Groundbreakers Missionaries
Jess C. Holm was a soldier, missionary medical doctor, medical director, educator, and writer who served in Far Eastern, Afro-Mideast, and Inter-American divisions.
Southern Asia-Pacific Division Biography Educators Medical Workers Missionaries
John Westrup ministered to Scandinavian communities in America prior to mission service in Henan Province, China, 1905 through 1914.
Herbert and Anna White were Adventist missionaries to China.
James Henry and Margaret White were Adventist missionaries to China.
The West Szechwan Mission (川西区会; West Sichuan Mission) started in 1919 as a subdivision of the West China Union Mission. The provincial capital of Chengtu (成都Chengdu), a Buddhist stronghold, became the headquarters for mission activities.
The North Fukien (today’s Fujian) Mission, 闽北区会 grew out of the subdivision of the original Fukien (or Fujian) Mission, 1917 through 1920.
Alva Paul and Avanelle Ruth Ritz spent two decades as missionaries in the Far Eastern Division. They were instrumental in the establishment of the first Adventist church in Bangkok in 1933. They also pioneered the Adventist work in the northern part of Thailand.
Southern Asia-Pacific Division Biography Groundbreakers Missionaries Couples
Milton Elmer Nebblett was a dynamic Honduran evangelist, pastor, and administrator who served most notably in the eastern Caribbean and in the state of Maryland in the United States for almost 50 years. He served as pastor of congregations in the Southern California and Allegheny East Conferences. In the early to mid-1970s, he worked for the American government as an advisor to the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) for the coordination and distribution of food in Vietnam during the country’s war years.
Kenneth and Florence Wood were missionaries in China from 1912 to 1941. On return to the homeland Kenneth served as a minister in California.
Elizabeth Zeidler was a long-serving secretary in the General Conference Secretariat, working through the transition between the headquarters in Battle Creek, Michigan and the headquarters in Takoma Park, Maryland. She served as secretary to several successive General Conference Secretaries and as the recording secretary to the General Conference Committee (now the General Conference Executive Committee).
Lorena Florence Plummer (née Fait) was a church administration, a teacher, an author, and a Sabbath School director at the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.
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