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Lucille Spence, whose refusal for treatment at an Adventist hospital was a catalyst for the organization of regional conferences, was born to Harriett and Jesse Spence on September 22, 1877, in Petersburg, Virginia. Lucy’s parents were both born into slavery in southern Virginia in the 1850s and emancipated with the millions of other African Americans during and at the close of the Civil War. The Spences had eight children in all: five daughters, including Lucy, and three sons. Harriett Spence raised the children, while Jesse Spence made a living as a fireman for a railroad company.
Eli B. Miller was a pioneer Adventist educator and missionary, the first professor of elocution or homiletics in Adventist history, and contributor and editor of Bible Readings and some of the earliest Sabbath School lessons.
North American Division Biography Educators Groundbreakers Missionaries
A. C. Bourdeau, a French-speaking pastor-evangelist, was a pioneer of the Adventist cause in the American state of Vermont, in Quebec, Canada, and in a number of European nations.
North American Division Biography Groundbreakers Missionaries
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.
The Helping Hand Mission (1898-1907) in Melbourne was a charitable enterprise that benefited the poor and needy as a result of efforts by the Seventh-day Adventist church members.
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.
The initial Seventh-day Adventist missionaries to Australasia used literature and tent crusades to win converts but it was less than a decade before they experimented with Dr. John Harvey Kellogg’s model of evangelism, one that promoted a healthy lifestyle, simple hydrotherapy, and massage treatments.
Anna Leonore (Ingels) Hindson served the church in California as secretary of the California Tract Society for nine years and, for more than forty years, she served in Australia in various positions including secretary of the Australian Tract Society, secretary of the Australasian Union Conference; secretary [director] of the Home Missions department, the Young People’s department; and the Sabbath School department, and editor of the Australasian Union Record and the Missionary Leader.
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.
Arthur Currow was the first Australian Seventh-day Adventist missionary to Fiji. He was instrumental in the conversion of Ratu Meli, one of the first Seventh-day Adventist converts in Fiji.
South Pacific Division Biography Groundbreakers Missionaries Couples
Dr. Edgar Caro, a gifted doctor, was the medical superintendent of the Sydney Medical and Surgical Sanitarium of Summer Hill in Australia from 1898 to 1901.
The South Australian Conference is a constituent of the Australian Union Conference in the South Pacific Division of the Seventh-day Adventists.
The Adelaide Electro-Hydropathic Institute and Sanitarium was opened in July 1899, the brainchild of Alfred Semmens. It existed for ten years as a struggling institution until it was superseded by the Adelaide Sanitarium which was opened at another site in 1908.
The Wire Hill Mission Station in Kenya was opened in 1909.
Albert Watson was one of the pre-war (First World War) missionaries pioneering the mission station at Rusinga Island on Lake Victoria, Western Kenya. He worked in Kenya for a total of 17 years as a missionary.
Trans-European Division Biography Groundbreakers Missionaries
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