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Encyclopedia of Seventh-day Adventists

 

This collection showcases entries by Avondale affiliated staff from the Encyclopedia of Seventh-day Adventists

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  • AdSAFE, South Pacific Division by Milton Hook

    AdSAFE, South Pacific Division

    Milton Hook

    AdSAFE is an entity established to address domestic violence and sexual abuse within the Seventh-day Adventist church community in Australasia. Its mandate includes providing information and resources concerning the various forms of abuse, training employees and church members to combat abuse, supporting victims of abuse, investigating allegations of abuse, and cooperating with law enforcement authorities in cases of abuse that appear in the civil courts.

  • Advent Correspondence School, South Pacific Division by Milton Hook

    Advent Correspondence School, South Pacific Division

    Milton Hook

    Correspondence courses were available through the Church in the South Pacific between 1925 and the mid-1990s. These courses were delivered by a number of means including the Fireside Correspondence School and the Advent Correspondence School.

  • Adventist Alpine Village, Australia by Milton Hook

    Adventist Alpine Village, Australia

    Milton Hook

    Adventist Alpine Village is a camp and conference center owned and operated by the South New South Wales Conference in Australia. It hosts the annual camp meeting of the conference as well as several specialized camps. It is located in the Snowy Mountains of Australia and provides a variety of accommodation options for families and groups to enjoy this unique environment.

  • Adventist Retirement Villages, South Pacific Division by Milton Hook

    Adventist Retirement Villages, South Pacific Division

    Milton Hook

    In the post-World War II era the number of Seventh-day Adventist retirement villages in the South Pacific Division has steadily increased. General provisions usually include church facilities on site or nearby, a visiting chaplain, fully trained nurses for high-care residents, medical and dental assistance by appointment, library and television facilities, and periodic social outings. All institutions are subsidized by the Australian federal government.

  • Aitken, John Daniel Kerr (1867–1925) by Milton Hook

    Aitken, John Daniel Kerr (1867–1925)

    Milton Hook

    John Aitken was the manager of the Avondale Press for thirteen years between 1909 and 1922. He trained many to operate a press and they in turn operated presses throughout the countries of the Australasian Union Conference.

  • Alert, Australasian Division by Milton Hook

    Alert, Australasian Division

    Milton Hook

    From 1955 until 1987 Alert was the premier temperance journal in the South Pacific Division. It made a strong contribution to the ministry of health in the South Pacific Division until it was discontinued in 1987.

  • Allbon, Rhae (1885–1927) by Milton Hook

    Allbon, Rhae (1885–1927)

    Milton Hook

    Rhae Allbon was qualified as both a government and church school teacher. She taught on the campus of the Australasian Missionary College, Avondale from the end of 1908 until the beginning of 1927. For most of that time she was head of the English Department at the College.

  • American Samoa by Milton Hook

    American Samoa

    Milton Hook

    American Samoa is located in the south-central Pacific Ocean approximately 1,600 miles (2,600 kilometers) northeast of New Zealand and 2,200 miles (3,500 kilometers) southwest of Hawaii. American Samoa includes the inhabited islands of TutuilaTau, Olosega, Ofu, and Aunuu. Swains Island an inhabited coral atoll about 280 miles (450 kilometers) northwest of Tutuila, was made a part of American Samoa in 1925. The capital of American Samoa is Pago Pago on the island of Tutuila.

  • Amyes Memorial Hospital, Solomon Islands by Milton Hook

    Amyes Memorial Hospital, Solomon Islands

    Milton Hook

    The Amyes Memorial Hospital was opened in 1939 at Kukudu on the Island of Kolombangara, Western Solomon Islands. Today it functions at the Kukudu Adventist Clinic.

  • Amyes, Sidney Herbert (1857–1935) by Milton Hook

    Amyes, Sidney Herbert (1857–1935)

    Milton Hook

    Sidney Amyes was a New Zealand national who strongly supported the Seventh-day Adventist Church with his means and influence in its early days in South New Zealand.

  • Appeal for Missions, South Pacific Division by Milton Hook

    Appeal for Missions, South Pacific Division

    Milton Hook

    The Appeal for Missions was an annual campaign in which church members voluntarily went door-to-door, soliciting donations from the public for the church mission program in the Pacific Islands.

  • Ashcroft, Charles Ernest (1872–1963) by Milton Hook

    Ashcroft, Charles Ernest (1872–1963)

    Milton Hook

    Charles Ashcroft was a pastor, church administrator, and one of the pioneers of the denomination’s senior educational institution in Western Australia.

  • Auckland Adventist Hospital, New Zealand by Milton Hook

    Auckland Adventist Hospital, New Zealand

    Milton Hook

    Auckland Adventist hospital was located at 188 St. Heliers Bay Road, St. Heliers, Auckland, New Zealand. It was administered as an institution of the Trans-Tasman Union Conference, South Pacific Division. It operated between 1974 and 1999.

  • Auckland Seventh-day Adventist High School, New Zealand by Milton Hook

    Auckland Seventh-day Adventist High School, New Zealand

    Milton Hook

    The Auckland Seventh-day Adventist High School is located at 119 Mountain Road, Mangere Bridge, Auckland, New Zealand. It comes under the administration of the North New Zealand Conference.

  • Australasian Conference Association Superannuation Trust (ACAST) by Milton Hook

    Australasian Conference Association Superannuation Trust (ACAST)

    Milton Hook

    ACAST is an acronym for the Australasian Conference Association Superannuation Trust. It is a fund from which employees of the Seventh-day Adventist Church are paid a pension in their retirement.

  • Australasian Medical Missionary and Benevolent Association by Milton Hook

    Australasian Medical Missionary and Benevolent Association

    Milton Hook

    Australasian Medical Missionary and Benevolent Association (1897-1900) aimed to promote the principles of healthful living of the denomination and the establishment of the church's medical and charitable enterprises.

  • Australasian Union Conference During the Depression by Milton Hook

    Australasian Union Conference During the Depression

    Milton Hook

    Australasian Division income during the depression was remarkable in the face of widespread adversity. Any progress made by the church during the worst years was in sharp contrast to numerous bankruptcies and business failures in the secular world.

  • Australasian Union Conference Involvement in Southeast Asia Before 1912 by Milton Hook

    Australasian Union Conference Involvement in Southeast Asia Before 1912

    Milton Hook

    The close proximity of Australia to Southeast Asia naturally led union conference officials in Australia to adopt responsibility for the establishment of Seventh-day Adventist missions in that region, first in Sumatra, then Singapore, followed by the Philippine Islands and Java.

  • Australia by Milton Hook

    Australia

    Milton Hook

    Australia is the only independent country that occupies a whole continent. Located in the Southern hemisphere it has a population of some 25.5 million people. The Seventh-day Adventist Church commenced its work in Australia in Melbourne, Victoria in 1885.

  • Australian Sentinel and Herald of Liberty, Australasian Union Conference by Milton Hook

    Australian Sentinel and Herald of Liberty, Australasian Union Conference

    Milton Hook

    The Australian Sentinel and Herald of Liberty was a short-lived journal published between 1894 and 1898. It was based on the journal American Sentinel and dealt with religious liberty issues.

  • Australian Tract and Missionary Society (1888–1902) by Milton Hook

    Australian Tract and Missionary Society (1888–1902)

    Milton Hook

    Australian Tract and Missionary Society (1888-1902) was an organization that promoted the distribution of Seventh-day Adventist publications and the church's evangelistic activities.

  • Avondale Press, Australia by Milton Hook

    Avondale Press, Australia

    Milton Hook

    Avondale Press was a printing establishment that operated in Cooranbong, New South Wales, from 1899 until 1919, when it became part of an entity named Avondale Industries.

  • Avondale University College, Australia by Milton Hook

    Avondale University College, Australia

    Milton Hook

    Avondale University College is the senior tertiary educational institution for the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the South Pacific region, located in Cooranbong, New South Wales, Australia. Formerly Avondale College of Higher Education, it was granted Avondale Australian University College status in August 2019.

  • Barham, Hubert Ernest (1897–1958) and Olive May (Cawse) (1898-2002) by Milton Hook

    Barham, Hubert Ernest (1897–1958) and Olive May (Cawse) (1898-2002)

    Milton Hook

    Hubert Barham was an engineer who gave thirteen years of service to the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Solomon Islands in the first half of the twentieth century.

  • Baron, Charles Dickens (1866–1953) and Beatrice Adelaide (Taylor) (c. 1873-1943) by Milton Hook

    Baron, Charles Dickens (1866–1953) and Beatrice Adelaide (Taylor) (c. 1873-1943)

    Milton Hook

    Charles and Beatrice Baron accepted an appointment on Lord Howe island in 1894. They also served on Norfolk Island, New Zealand and Australia, sometimes as paid workers and sometimes self-supporting.

 

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