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Fiji consists of approximately 330 islands in the mid-South Pacific Ocean, the largest being Viti Levu and Vanua Levu.
South Pacific Division Fiji Country (Based on SDA membership)
Daniel T. Bourdeau was a pioneer pastor-evangelist in northern Vermont, among French-speaking communities in Canada and the American Midwest, in California, and in Europe.
Charles L. Boyd was an evangelist, conference leader, and pioneering missionary to South Africa.
Sarah Grace Young was among the first Sabbathkeepers and Seventh-day Adventist converts on Pitcairn Island.
Heinrich Franz Schuberth was a teacher, minister, editor, and president of several conferences, pioneering the work in various parts of Germany.
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.
The eastern Caribbean comprised of the numerous Leeward and Windward Islands, were among the early places outside of the U.S.A. that Seventh-day Adventist missionaries labored in significant numbers, for around eighty years. “The English-speaking regions of the Caribbean were the first to attract Adventist workers.”
Dr. Sanford P. S. Edwards was prominent in Adventist medical missionary work during the first decade of the 20th century. Despite debilitating health problems that prevented him from sustaining full-time labor after 1908, he found a variety of ways to continue enhancing the mission of the church and the well-being of society.
Elon and Anna Everts were early Millerite Adventists who were among the first Sabbatarian Adventists in Vermont. Elon is considered the one to have coined the term “investigative judgment” in connection to Sabbatarian Adventists. He was also one of the first Sabbatarian Adventist ministers to be ordained in 1853.
Nathan Fuller was an evangelist and president of the New York-Pennsylvania Conference before moral failure brought an end to his ministry in 1869.
William Claggett Gage was a publisher, preacher, health reformer, and the first Adventist elected mayor of a city.
William Hunt was the first known American Seventh-day Adventist to come to South Africa.
Southern Africa-Indian Ocean Division Biography Groundbreakers Missionaries
Oliver S. Beltz was among the most influential musicians in the Seventh-day Adventist Church during the twentieth century.
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
The Battle Creek Sanitarium was a world-renowned Adventist health resort in Battle Creek, Michigan, United States.
Sarah Peck was an educational pioneer and curriculum author, and a literary assistant to Ellen G. White.
North American Division Biography Educators Groundbreakers Women
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.
Charles O. Taylor, a pioneer preacher in upstate New York, is best known as the first minister to disseminate the Seventh-day Adventist message in the Deep South of the United States.
Josiah Rice Hart was a pioneering tent meeting evangelist in the New England and Midwestern states.
North American Division Biography Groundbreakers Died/Imprisoned for Faith
Adelia Van Horn was an assistant to Ellen G. White, the editor for The Youth’s Instructor, and the first female treasurer for the General Conference.