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The history of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in South Sudan goes back as far as 1892 when the General Conference voted to send a missionary to Sudan. However, at the time Sudan was partitioned between the Christian denominations that entered the country ahead of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. This early attempt failed because there was no space left to be allocated to the Adventist Church. The second attempt to enter Sudan was during the leadership of Neil C. Wilson when he was president of the Nile Union Mission. According to the magazine the Columbia Union Visitor, in 1950 Neil C. Wilson “was elected President of the Nile Union Mission, comprising Egypt, Sudan, Aden, and the Arabian Peninsula.”
East-Central Africa Division South Sudan Country (Based on SDA membership)
The South Sudan Attached Territory of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (SSAT) is a constituent of the East-Central Africa Division (ECD) of the General Conference. It was organized in 2015. Its headquarters is located at Bilpam-Gudele Roundabout, plot no., 1, Block 2; Hai-Kuwait, Munuki; Juba; South Sudan.
The Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) is a global humanitarian organization of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. ADRA started in Sudan with the health clinic in Munuki Compound of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Juba in 1982.
Bulus Kakwi was the first African from Northern Nigeria to be ordained as a minister and the first indigenous president of the North Nigerian Mission.
Deneke Morie was a preacher and church planter who introduced Seventh-day Adventism to Hadiya. He was a strong advocate of Adventist education.
Egypt was where the Adventist work in the Middle East first began. Around 1877 Italian Adventists in Naples, Italy, sent the French paper "Signes des Temps" to their Italian friends in Alexandria, and corresponded with them about the church’s teachings.
Middle East and North Africa Union Mission Egypt Country (Based on SDA membership)
Bere Adventist Hospital is located in Tandjilé province, Central Tandjilé department, about 400 kilometers southwest of N’Djamena, Chad.
In response to Japan's post-war recovery and economic development, ADRA Japan was launched on March 30, 1985.
The Middle East Union Mission was operational in two separate periods from 1941-1951 and again from 1970-2011.
Middle East and North Africa Union Mission Church Administrative Unit
The Adventist faith first came to Western Kenya through the work of a South African settler farmer named David Sparrow and his wife Sallie who settled among the Nandi people in 1911.
Adventist Development and Relief Agency Middle East and North Africa (ADRA MENA) is a regional office of the global humanitarian ADRA network and a service of the Middle East and North Africa Union Mission (MENAUM), with an office in Beirut, Lebanon. ADRA MENA was established to provide administrative and programmatic support to national ADRA offices and coordinate relief work throughout its territory. Countries comprised in MENAUM are Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Western Sahara, Yemen, and North Cyprus.
Middle East and North Africa Union Mission Denominational Ministry
Chad Mission is an administrative unit of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Chad.
The North Orissa Region is a part of the East Central India Union Section in the Southern Asia Division. Its headquarters is in Sambalpur, Orissa, India.
Noel Aligo was a Seventh-day Adventist pastor and administrator from South Sudan.
Leslie Earl Anderson was an engineer, chief pilot, and director of Adventist Aviation Services for the South Pacific Division. He was killed in a plane crash when flying in the course of his duties.
Woldeselassie Gebregzabher Gebretsadik (formerly known as, Doda Gembero Belelo) was a lay evangelist, teacher and church planter in Ethiopia.
Levi Napagi was a literature evangelist and lay preacher who contributed to the Adventist mission in Uganda.
Daudi Inda Ogillo was a Tanzanian teacher, pastor, and pioneer missionary to Sudan.
East-Central Africa Division Biography Educators Groundbreakers Missionaries
Ret Chol Jock was the first Sudanese Adventist Mission director, from 1976 to 1978.
Rwanda Union Mission is part of the East-Central Africa Division. As of 2019, Rwanda Union was the largest union in the East-Central Africa Division in terms of membership.