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Name: BARTLETT, William Thomas (Pastor)

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Birth Date: 28 Feb 1870 Kentish Town, London

Death Date: 1947, buried 22 Aug Chingford Mount Cemetery, Waltham Forest

First Date: 1922

Profession: Missionary

Area: Kisii, Kisumu

Married: 1899 Susan Edith Bray b. 31 Oct 1863 Truro, d. 1942 Essex, buried 13 Nov. Chingford Mount Cemetery, Waltham Forest

Children: Daughter

Book Reference: KAD, Red 25, Hut, Red 22

General Information:

Red 25 - Superintendent, Seventh Day Adventist Mission, Gendia Mission, Kisumu
Web: About EKUC: In 1920, the General Conference again sent other missionaries to Africa in one ship. Pr Carscallen returned home and Pr W.T. Bartlett took over. Pr Maxwell, Pr Armstrong, Pr E.R. Warland, Dr G.A.S. Madgwick together with two nursing sisters, Karen Nielsen and Carenze Olsen, were also on board to various churches. Work progressed rapidly under the leadership of these missionaries and the number of new members and churches increased. Schools for primary education were also built by the side of church buildings. In 1922, Pr Bartlett decided to start a synod that arranged for the employment of workers and administration of churches. Before the synod came into existence, one person had to do all the planning and directing of mission work. Pr Bartlett thought it wise to start a committee which would plan and direct the work of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. The synod enabled leaders to do better work. It planned: Employment of district leaders and posted them to the districts Made plans and directed activities in the three mission stations e.g. ways of receiving offerings and how the funds would be spent, formulating regulations for running churches smoothly etc. Complete authority in making plans for ordinations, baptisms, weddings and other functions Employment and remuneration of teachers and evangelists making the school syllabus, and other similar plans. Each mission station was to elect and send four representatives to the synod.
Previous to coming to EA he had been editor of the Stanborough Press
1939 England and Wales Register living in Hendon with wife, as Minister of Religion

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