Timeline of Adventist Missionaries in South Africa
1887
The year when the first group of Adventist missionaries arrived in South Africa to begin the work among the European population.
1890
Organization of Beaconsfield Seventh-day Adventist church as the first Seventh-day Adventist church in Africa.
1894
The year of arrival of the missionaries to Solusi mission.
1895
The year of arrival of the American missionaries.
January 1895
The year when Ellen White wrote the letter counselling church leaders to take Solusi land.
1896
The year when chief Mlevu hid the belongings of the missionaries.
1898
The year of martyrdom. The year when missionaries succumbed to malaria.
1899
The year when Solusi opened the first centres outside Solusi: Mkupavula and Zihwabeni mission.
1899
The year when F. L. Mead came to take the button after the death of George Byron Tripp.
1901
The year when Jim Mayinza was baptized.
1901
The year when F. B. Armitage left to open Somabula mission, the first enduring mission post outside Solusi mission.
1901
The year when F. L. Mead succumbed to fever.
1903
The year when Melvin Studvent lost his only son, Johnathan.
1905
The year when W Anderson left to open Rusangu mission.
1910
The year when Melvin Sturdevent left to open Nyazura mission.
1911
The year when Debeers and Mafohlela Nkomazana went to open Shangani mission.
1919
The year when the first campmeeting was conducted at Lower Gwelo.
1921
The year when the first African missionaries, Harry Sibagobe, Isaac Xhibalengwe Nkomo, and Jim Mayinza were ordained into the Gospel Ministry.
