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  Paap, Ella Sisley (Boyd) (1883–1951)

  Lester Devine

  Ella Boyd taught in Queensland, Tasmania, Tonga, and Avondale before marrying Leonard Paap, with whom she ministered in Tonga, New Zealand, and Australia.

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  Paap, Frederick William (1870–1950)

  Lester Devine

  Frederick Paap was born in New Zealand. He was a pastor who was for a time the head of the Home Missionary Department at the General Conference in Washington, D.C.

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  Pallant, Jesse (1862–1948)

  Lester Devine

  Jesse Pallant was born in Emu Bay, Tasmania, Australia, on September 3, 1862, to Joseph Pallant (1814–1909), a sea captain, and Mary Ann Tonkyn. The family moved to New Zealand by 1875 where a sister, Mary Pearce Pallant, and a brother, Frank Wanbrow Pallant, were born. While the circumstances leading to Jesse becoming a Seventh-day Adventist are not known, his mother and sister Mary when 12 years of age were baptized by A. G. Daniels, who was then working in New Zealand. Mary was to later become one of the first nurses to graduate from the Summer Hill Sanitarium in Sydney, Australia, precursor to the Sydney Sanitarium and Hospital.

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  Palmer, Nelson William (1920–2012)

  Lester Devine

  Pastor Nelson Palmer was a career pastor, missionary, and Bible teacher in the Australasian and the Trans-Africa Divisions of the Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) Church from 1941-1984. In retirement he and his wife continued their service as volunteers in Vanuatu and Lord Howe Island.

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  Parker, Arthur Frederick (1899–1985) and Muriel (Stace) (1907–1930); later Dorothy (Mills) (1901–1987)

  Lester Devine

  Arthur Frederick Parker was a pastor who gave over 41 years of service to the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Together with his first wife Muriel, he served in New South Wales and the Solomon Islands. With his second wife Dorothy, a physician, he served in the Solomon Islands and Victoria, Australia.

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  Peacock, Gerald (1890–1967) and Winifred Evelyn (Worth) (1898–1987)

  Lester Devine

  Gerald and Winifred Peacock were career missionaries in the South Pacific Division of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, serving in a variety of roles in Papua, New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, and the New Hebrides (Vanuatu today). Gerald Peacock was later the leader of the developing work of the Church in the northern part of the state of Queensland, Australia. Their final assignment was four years together developing the Aboriginal work at the Mona Mona Mission in North Queensland.

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  Pengilley, Ronald Ernest (1917–1989)

  Lester Devine

  Ronald Ernest Pengilley gave forty-six years of service to the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the South Pacific Division. He is best remembered as the manager of the Signs Publishing Company in Victoria for almost eighteen years (1962–1980).

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  Piper, Harold Edgar (1882–1965) and Lily Agatha (Brown) (died 1965)

  Lester Devine

  Apart from a brief period of service in Tonga, Harold and Lily Piper spent the rest of their forty-six years of denominational service in Australia and New Zealand. There, Harold was an evangelist and administrator. Remarkably, in his long career Piper served as the president of all but one of the then nine local conferences across Australia and New Zealand.

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  Scragg, Walter Robert Lambert (1925–2010)

  Lester Devine

  Walter Scragg, born in New Zealand, served the Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) Church as an evangelist, broadcaster, college principal, departmental director, and administrator. He spent 13 years at the General Conference headquarters in Washington, D.C., and was president of both the Northern European/West Africa Division and the South Pacific Division of Seventh-day Adventists.

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  Shields, Lawrence Graham (1941–1973) and Marion (Gibbons) Shields

  Lester Devine

  Lawrence Shields and his wife, Marion worked as a pastoral couple in Australia and were missionaries to Papua New Guinea. Lawrence was a pilot in the Seventh-day Adventist Church aviation program and was killed in a tragic plane crash in April 1973.

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  Smart, Mary Maud (1892–1963)

  Lester Devine

  Mary Maud Smart, an Adventist educator, taught in the South Pacific for forty-six years. She was a respected pioneer of Seventh-day Adventist educational philosophy, principles, and practice.

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  Thompson, Leonard C. (1909–1942)

  Lester Devine

  Leonard C. Thompson was the son of Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Thompson, of Albury. He was born in Victoria, Australia, in 1909. Leonard Thompson trained at Sydney Sanitarium and Hospital, graduating from the nursing course in 1933. He then worked as part of the hospital staff for the next two or three years. In December 1935, Thompson married nursing classmate Eileen Lethbridge from Perth in Western Australia. After Thompson qualified in radiography at Sydney University, the young couple accepted an appointment with the Public Health Department in the mandated territory of New Guinea. Their service was cut short when Thompson became a prisoner of war during the Japanese invasion during World War II. Thompson’s commitment was such that he preceded his family out to New Guinea two years before his wife and oldest daughter could get approval to join him.

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  Were, Eric Walter (1914–1997)

  Lester Devine

  Erick Walter Were, an Adventist photographer, film producer, and writer, was born on June 21, 1914, in Adelaide, South Australia.

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  Brinsmeadism

  Kayle B. de Waal

  Brinsmeadism arose within the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Australia during the 1960's and had run its course by the late 1980's. Its name derived from that of Robert D. Brinsmead, a Seventh-day Adventist church member, whose ideas became influential in small groups and meetings in Australia and along the West coast of the U.S.A. during that time.

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  Were, Louis Fitzroy (1896–1967)

  Kayle B. de Waal

  Louis F. Were (1896-1967) was a pastor, evangelist and author who worked for the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Australia and New Zealand from 1919 to 1943.

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  Coltheart, John Frederick (1924–1974)

  Michelle Down

  John Frederick Coltheart was an innovative and successful evangelist in Australia and Europe.

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  Down, David Kyrle (1918–2018)

  Michelle Down

  David Kyrle Down was a missionary, evangelist, pastor, and author from Australia. Down was well known in the secular world, as well as in Adventist circles, for his knowledge of biblical archaeology. Down authored a correspondence Bible course based on archaeology. He and a crew from the Adventist Media Centre traveled to the Middle East and filmed an evangelistic series on location that they called Digging Up the Past.

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  Adventist Professional

  Barry Gane

  Adventist Professional was a journal produced by the Association of Business and Professional Men in Australia beginning in 1989.

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  Association of Business and Professional Members, South Pacific Division

  Barry Gane

  The Association of Business and Professional Men (ABPM) was formed following discussions that took place between laymen in Sydney, Australia, in the late 1950s.

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  Davis, Clarence Henry (1895-1978 and Elsie Mary Morgan (1893-1915); later Beatrice (Amy) Collins (1911-1975)

  Barry Gane

  Clarence Davis was an Australian pioneer in Asia and did much to establish the colporteur ministry in China, as well as planting numerous churches and establishing schools in that country. He worked in the Far East for all but two of his 50 years of service.

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  Knight, Arthur Lyndon (1926-2012)

  Barry Gane

  Arthur Lyndon (Lyn) Knight was the founding member of the Association of Business and Professional Men, the driving force behind the journal Adventist Professional; founder of the Avondale College Foundation; fundraiser for Sydney Adventist Hospital; and pioneer of the “Carols by Candle” light program in Sydney as both the coordinator of the program and conductor of the choirs and orchestras.

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  Knight, Arthur William (1893–1978)

  Barry Gane

  Arthur William Knight was the first Tract Society secretary in North Zealand Conference. He was appointed the first leader of the literature ministry in India, Burma (Myanmar) and Ceylon (Sri Lanka).

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  Value-Genesis Surveys, South Pacific Division

  Barry Gane

  Valuegenesis is the study of faith development and values formation in Seventh-day Adventist youth.

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  Institute of Worship, South Pacific Division

  Lyell Heise

  The Institute of Worship is a ministry of the South Pacific Division (SPD) specializing in resource development, leadership training, and education for worship. It was established by the SPD in 2004 and located on the campus of Avondale University College. When the director retired in 2015, the division ceased funding the institute, and its resources and limited service functions were then administered by Avondale. The director continued in a limited volunteer role.

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  ACA Health Benefits Fund, South Pacific Division

  Milton Hook

  The ACA Health Benefits Fund is a fund into which church employees and local church officers can contribute so that it can assist with the payment of medical costs accrued by insured individuals.