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  Perry, James Charles Hamley (1902–1993) and Muriel Albertina (Powrie) (1902–1998)

  Graeme Perry

  James Charles Hamley Perry and his wife, Muriel Albertina, were partners for 16 years as pioneer missionaries for the Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) Church in the South Pacific Islands, and subsequently for 18 years of pastoral evangelism in Western Australia. The spirituality of this adventurous committed pastoral ministry was supported by practicality, his in managing boats, building projects and people; hers in supporting family life, dressmaking and hospitality.

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  Sydney Adventist Hospital, Australia

  Paul Race

  The Sydney Adventist Hospital is owned and operated by the South Pacific Division of Seventh-day Adventists. It is located in suburban Sydney at Wahroonga, NSW, Australia. It was opened on January 1, 1903. It is a not-for-profit acute-care private hospital offering acute medical, surgical, and obstetric care along with an emergency department, and as of 2019 is the largest private not-for-profit hospital in the most populated Australian state of New South Wales with a registered capacity for more than 550 licensed overnight beds. It is also a teaching hospital and has direct engagement with Avondale University College for undergraduate nurse education, and the University of Sydney for medical training.

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  Macquarie College, Australia

  Daniel Reynaud

  Tracing its humble beginnings to 11 students in the back of the Seventh-day Adventist church in Hamilton, New South Wales, Australia, in 1900, Macquarie College has grown to become one of the most recognizable Adventist educational institutions, offering education from Kindergarten through Year 12 in the Newcastle, New South Wales, area.

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  The Seventh-day Adventist Church and Military Service in the South Pacific

  Daniel Reynaud

  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. Both Australia and New Zealand have had various forms of compulsory military training over a number of decades of the twentieth century, and even conscription at times. The Church’s regional governing body (initially the Australasian Union Conference [AUC], later the Australasian Division [AD], then South Pacific Division [SPD]), after initial problems in finding a consensus position among its members, was able to negotiate an understanding whereby SDAs served in noncombatant roles, which permitted SDA young men to serve their country in ways that did not violate the stance of the Church, even during the crises of wars. In more recent times governments of Pacific nations with military forces either have purely voluntary armed services or have also made provision for conscientious objectors. Perhaps the most difficult circumstances were for nationals of Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands who were put to forced labor by Allied forces during World War II and who were most at risk of having their principles disregarded.

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  World War I and the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the South Pacific

  Daniel Reynaud

  The First World War (1914-1918) radically affected New Zealand and Australian society, but its impact on the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the region was limited by its geographic remoteness from the theaters of conflict and the Church’s circumspection over participation in the war. While almost all other religious groups actively promoted the war and the enlistment of their young men, the denomination walked a largely successful but very fine line between loyalty to the government and opposition to a worldly war that conflicted with the Church’s global mission and vision. Church leaders managed ultimately successful negotiations with governments to ensure that military service requirements accommodated Adventist positions on non-combatancy and the Sabbath. As far as possible, the Church remained firmly fixed on its mission, which by global standards was relatively unaffected by the war or by government policies.

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  World War II and the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the South Pacific

  Daniel Reynaud

  The Second World War had a significant impact on the work of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the South Pacific, most notably in New Guinea, Papua, and the Solomon Islands, which were the scenes of bitter conflict between Japanese and Allied forces. The Australasian Union Conference (AUC), which administered the work of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the region, had to respond to restricted travel and tightened finances while simultaneously meeting new demands on its energies and resources. In particular, the church had to negotiate its interaction with state authorities over support for the war effort and compulsory military service, and manage its work in war-affected regions.

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  Australasian Research Institute

  Carolyn Rickett and Paul Race

  The Australasian Research Institute (ARI) began July 20, 2004, to coordinate research activities within the Sydney Adventist Hospital (SAH) and also conduct and promote research in association with other Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) organizations and the community. The Institute is located on the campus of SAH and works in conjunction with the Adventist Health Ministries of the South Pacific Division, Avondale University College, and the Australian Health & Nutrition Association Limited, operating as the Sanitarium Health and Wellbeing Company.

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  Roennfeldt, Clarence Edwin (1902–1991)

  Ray C. Roennfeldt

  Clarence (Clarrie) Roennfeldt spent the majority of his life as a very active lay preacher and church worker in the West Australian Conference. However, as a young adult he was involved in mission service in Burma and then in colporteur ministry in South Australia.

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  Patrick, Arthur Nelson (1934–2013)

  Lynden Rogers

  A biography of the life of Seventh-day Adventist Evangelist Arthur Patrick.

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  Avondale Health Retreat, Australia (1899–1935)

  John A. Skrzypaszek

  The Union Conference Record dated January 1, 1900, announced the dedication of the Avondale Health Retreat on December 27, 1899.

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  Bible Echo and Signs of the Times

  John A. Skrzypaszek

  The Bible Echo and Signs of the Times was the first journal published by the Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) Church in Australia and the South Pacific region.

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  Ellen G. White’s Ministry in the South Pacific

  John A. Skrzypaszek

  Ellen White lived in Australia between 1891 and 1900. Her ministry within the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the South Pacific Division encompassed an expansion of mission-focused infrastructures fostered by her generous commitment to service and an inspirational visioning of sharing a Christ-centered gospel with the world.

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  The Australasian Bible School, Melbourne

  John A. Skrzypaszek

  Opened in Melbourne, Australia, in 1892, the Australasian Bible School was the forerunner of the Australasian Missionary College, which opened in Cooranbong, NSW, in 1897.

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  Lopa, Aaron Mou (c. 1942–2013)

  Jillian Thiele

  Aaron Lopa, a Papua New Guinean of Wuvulu Island, was a pastor, evangelist, and academic. He was the first Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) from Papua New Guinea to receive a Doctor of Ministry degree. He spent much of his life at Sonoma Adventist College and Pacific Adventist University preparing ministerial students for service.

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  ADRA Australia

  Brad Watson

  The Adventist Development and Relief Agency in Australia (ADRA/A) was established in Australia in 1978 to provide assistance to people in the South Pacific region. Initially referred to as the Seventh-day Adventist World Service in Australia (SAWS/A), the fledgling organisation was attached to the Australasian Division of the Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) Church and operated as a branch of the global SAWS organization with headquarters in Washington D. C.

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  Australian Indigenous Missionaries from Mona Mona Mission

  Brad Watson

  During the first half of the twentieth century at least three families from the Mona Mona SDA Mission for Indigenous Australians were sent as missionaries to Papua.

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  Hawkes, Lester Norval (1923–2017) and Freda May (Tiller) (1921–2014)

  Brad Watson

  Lester Norval and Freda May Hawkes were pioneering medical missionaries to Papua New Guinea.