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  Kiribati

  Milton Hook

  Kiribati, officially the Republic of Kiribati, is a sovereign state in Oceania. Kiribati straddles the equator in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The first Sabbath schools were officially established in the late 1940s, and the first Seventh-day Adventist church in 1954.

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  Knight, Frank (1890–1976)

  Milton Hook

  Frank Knight was born in 1890 on New Zealand’s North Island, the son of Sidney and Margaret (Watson) Knight.

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  Kukudu Adventist College, Solomon Islands

  Milton Hook

  Kukudu Adventist College is located on Kolumbangara Island, Western Province, Solomon Islands. It offers classes from elementary to grade 12.

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  Landa, Eugene Joseph (1908–2006) and Emmanuele Marie-Jeanne (Baldino) (1908–1967); later Olive (Hodgkinson) (1931–2018)

  Milton Hook

  Eugene Landa was a pastor and church administrator in Algeria, France, Israel, Tahiti, and Australia.

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  Lang, Frederick (1899–1930) and Lily (Maude)

  Milton Hook

  Frederick and Lily Lang were appointed to Fiji. Frederick and seven others lost their lives at sea in a hurricane in November 1930.

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  Longburn Adventist College, New Zealand

  Milton Hook

  Longburn Adventist College has been the senior Seventh-day Adventist educational institution in New Zealand since it was opened in 1913. It has undergone a number of name changes and often been restructured during its existence.

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  Lord Howe Island

  Milton Hook

  Lord Howe Island is situated in the Tasman Sea between Australia and New Zealand, 600 kilometres (370 miles) directly east of mainland Port Macquarie, New South Wales and 780 kilometres (480 miles) northeast of Sydney. It has an area of 14.55 square kilometres (5.62 square miles).

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  Lyndon, Frank Edward (1868–1945) and Almeda (Aikman) (1874–1960)

  Milton Hook

  Frank Edward Lyndon was a teacher, pastor, evangelist, and missionary. Frank and Almeda Lyndon are best remembered for their mission to the Polynesians, whom they served for twenty years.

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  Ma’afu, Henele (c. 1880–1915)

  Milton Hook

  Henele (or Henry) Ma’afu was one of a small contingent of Fijians who early served the Seventh-day Adventist Church as missionaries to a foreign land.

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  Maekera, Oti (1906–1984)

  Milton Hook

  Oti Maekera was a pioneering Solomon Island missionary responsible for initiating the work of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in New Britain, Mussau, Manus, and Kainantu in Papua New Guinea. Each of these areas was to become a center of Adventist influence in the country.

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  Martin, Alfred Walter (1899–1988) and Hilda Brown (1899–1938); later Enid Irene Peacock Adrian (1910–1998)

  Milton Hook

  Alfred Walter Martin was a missionary, educator, and administrator from Australia.

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  Martin, Harry Rowland (1874–1937) and Prudence Evangeline (Hill) (1883–1974)

  Milton Hook

  Harry Rowland Martin was an evangelist, educator, and church administrator. Harry Martin’s construction projects provided numerous facilities for the Seventh-day Adventist church in Fiji, Solomon Islands, and Australia.

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  Martin, John Radley (1912–1965) and Kathleen Josephine O’Connor Martin Tucker

  Milton Hook

  John and Kathleen Martin served the Church in Australia and the Mandated Territory of New Guinea. Kathleen Martin trained as a nurse and John Martin was a printer, pastor, and mission administrator. He served as a non-combatant in the Australian armed forces during World War II.

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  Mave, Joseph (1922–2009)

  Milton Hook

  Joseph Mave, from Emirau Island, Papua New Guinea, was the first Papua New Guinean to be elected as an officer of the Papua New Guinea Union Mission.

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  Medical and Surgical Sanitarium, Summer Hill, New South Wales

  Milton Hook

  The initial Seventh-day Adventist missionaries to Australasia used literature and tent crusades to win converts but it was less than a decade before they experimented with Dr. John Harvey Kellogg’s model of evangelism, one that promoted a healthy lifestyle, simple hydrotherapy, and massage treatments.

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  Michaels, Charles Philip (1854–1936)

  Milton Hook

  Pastor Charles Michaels commenced his working life with the Seventh-day Adventist Church as one of the first literature evangelists in Australia. He held a number of pastoral, departmental and administrative roles in his forty-nine years of service.

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  Mills, Joseph (1883–1927) and Jeanette Glenn Hamilton (Carswell) (1887–1961)

  Milton Hook

  Joseph and Jeanette (Nettie) Mills taught together at the Eastern Training School in Singapore. Joseph Mills later distinguished himself as the founding principal of the New Zealand Missionary College at Longburn. He also served as principal of the Australasian Missionary College at Avondale, New South Wales, and the Darling Range School at Carmel, Western Australia.

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  Mountain, Arthur, Jr. (1890–1975) and Leila (Minchin) (d. 1946); later Thora (Thomsen) (1914–1965)

  Milton Hook

  Arthur Mountain, Jr. spent forty-four years in the service of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, twenty-nine of them in mission work in Asia. He trained as a teacher, but worked as a literature evangelist, minister, business manager, treasurer, and mission president.

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  Murray, Ralph Stewart (1929–1990) and Betty Ruth (Hawken)

  Milton Hook

  Ralph and Betty Murray gave 31 years of practical ministry, paid and voluntary constructing buildings for the Adventist mission work in Papua New Guinea and the South sea Islands. He died in an accident in Samoa while in active service when 61 years of age.

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  Mussau, Emirau, and Tench Islands, Papua New Guinea

  Milton Hook

  Mussau, Emirau, and Tench islands were similar to Pitcairn Island, both had a heritage of murder and mayhem. The Seventh-day Adventist missionaries were excited by the prospect of converting the entire populations of these islands, albeit that the total population of the St. Matthias group was forty times more than that of Pitcairn Island.

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  Nacadruta, Josefati (d. 1910)

  Milton Hook

  Josefati (or Joseph) Nacadruta was one of the first Fijians, along with Pauliasi Bunoa and Alipati Rainima, to work for the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Fiji.

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  Na Davui ni Lotu (The Trumpet of the Church)

  Milton Hook

  Na Davui ni Lotu was a church paper printed for members in the Fiji Mission from 1928 to 1935.

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  Nakasamai, Mitieli (c. 1890–1945)

  Milton Hook

  Mitieli (or Mitchell) Nakasamai was born in Fiji about 1890. As a teenager he was one of the first students to attend the Buresala School on Ovalau Island in 1905. He first appeared in denominational periodicals as a missionary at Namarai in the Ra Coast region of Viti Levu in 1912.

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  Nauru

  Milton Hook

  The Adventist work in the island country of Nauru in the South Pacific was resisted by the governing authorities until they recognized the church in 2013, and construction of the first church building was completed in 2017.

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  Navesau Adventist High School, Fiji

  Milton Hook

  Navesau Adventist High School is a Seventh-day Adventist secondary school in the Wainibuka Valley on the island of Viti Levu, Fiji.