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Law Keem (Liu Jian) was a pioneer medical missionary in southern China and the first Adventist Chinese national to return to serve in his homeland.
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Lo Hing So (羅慶蘇 pinyin: Luó Qìngsū) was best remembered as an outstanding teacher, scholar, author, counselor, pastor, and education leader who served the church in the South China Union Mission for 42 years. One of his most significant contributions was in the area of Chinese-English interpretation and translation. His wife, Rose Wai Chee Chung (锺惠慈, pinyin: Zhōng Huìcí), was a nurse, school teacher, and librarian who served the church for 28 years alongside her husband.
Ezra Leon Longway, known to his Chinese friends as Luó Wēi (羅威), was a pioneer missionary to Thailand for several years and later devoted his ministry to administration in the China Division, the South China Island Union Mission, and the Far Eastern Division. The period included the eventful years of the Japanese occupation of China, World War Ⅱ, and the Communist takeover of mainland China.
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John Oss (史約翰; Pinyin Shǐ Yuēhàn) was an Adventist colporteur, minister, administrator, and missionary to China. He was the official pioneer missionary to open the first wave of the denomination’s work in Mongolia. He witnessed wars in China and was a prisoner of war.
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Helen May Scott, an educational missionary, entered Chosen (Korea) as the fourth of the missionaries for the educational work of the Korean Adventist Church. She was the longest missionary in Korea, serving for 32 years.
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The Chinese Signs of the Times Publishing Association, located in Taipei, Taiwan, is the only official Chinese publishing house of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in China.
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George Abbott, physician and author, was the first dean of what became the School of Medicine at Loma Linda University and served for more than three decades in the roles of medical director and surgeon at leading Adventist sanitariums. Dr. Cora Richards Abbott, an obstetrician, engaged in medical ministry in tandem with her husband.
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Advent Christian Church was a group of former Millerite believers who organized themselves as the Advent Christian Association in 1860.
The first and only issue of the "Advent Mirror," published January 1845 in Boston, Massachusetts, proved to be a milestone in the development of Seventh-day Adventist teachings concerning the pre-advent judgment and final ministry of Christ in the heavenly sanctuary.
Rudolf Constandt was an Australian educator and church administrator.
Albert Bodenmann was a missionary builder in Cameroon, pioneer missionary in Chad, and missionary administrator.
Ernests Klotinsh (Klotiņš) was an Adventist pastor and administrator who led the Church during the oppressive years of the Soviet Communist regime.
John Warren Bacheller, Jr. and his wife, Arvilla Marilda (born Lane), were early Sabbatarian Adventists and active in the formation of the denomination. Warren worked as a printer for James White in Rochester and later became a lifelong employee of the Review and Herald Publishing House.
Frederick and Katie Brown were Seventh-day Adventist missionaries active in medical and city mission work. Both served separately as missionaries to India with different missionary societies; met and married in India in 1891 and then in 1892 returned on furlough. Frederick became a physician and, during his medical studies, he converted to Seventh-day Adventism in 1897. Together they returned as Adventist missionaries to India in late 1898, and they spent about a year there before Frederick’s tragic death in late 1899.
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Marion Ernest Cady was an Adventist educator, author, and administrator who served as the president of four Adventist Colleges over the span of his career. He also served as education and Missionary Volunteer secretary for several conferences. He was a proponent of practical, biblically-based education, and was widely received as a public speaker.
Larkin Baker Coles (or Cole) was a physician, a Millerite lecturer, a writer, and an abolitionist. His book "Philosophy of Health" was the most comprehensive statement on health to come out of the Millerite community and had an enduring influence on the Seventh-day Adventist Church’s conception of health reform.
Hampton W. Cottrell was a widely-respected church administrator who was prominent in implementation of the reorganization of the Seventh-day Adventist governance structure that was initiated in 1901.
Ovid Elbert Davis was a pioneer missionary to the indigenous peoples of Alaska and British Columbia. He also served in ministry in Washington and Michigan states, and then became a pioneer missionary in British Guiana (after 1965 called Guiana) where he perished from blackwater fever while establishing a mission station near Mt. Roraima.
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Cyrus Kingsbury Farnsworth was a farmer from Washington, New Hampshire, who became an early and stalwart Sabbatarian Adventist.
William Farnsworth was a farmer from Washington, New Hampshire who was an early Sabbatarian Adventist.
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