An Explicit Confession Due the Church

Both were born into non-Seventh-day Adventist homes. Both took their stand and became Seventh-day Adventists by study and conviction and were baptized in their youth while attending public high school. Each has been in continuous denominational service for over 30 years with an aggregate of over 50 years in foreign mission service and each is at present serving in his appointed place carrying ministerial credentials of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Details of service over the years will be found in the relative issues of the Seventh-day Adventist Yearbook.

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Donald K. Short was born in Indiana. As a result of attending a series of evangelistic tent meetings in Daytona Beach, Florida, he was baptized into the Seventh-day Adventist Church in 1930, during his second year in high school. His subsequent education was all in denominational schools, Forest Lake Academy, Southern Junior College, graduating from Columbia Union College in 1940, with the bachelor’s degree. While in college he earned a living operating a private printing business. He was also connected with various evangelistic meetings from the time he became an Adventist and in the fall of 1940 sailed for Africa to serve at Mbeya Mission, Tanganyika. He remained in East Africa until 1960, serving as training school principal, educational secretary, mission director and publishing house manager during this time. Since 1960, he has served as general manager of the Trans-Africa Division publishing house, Sentinel Publishing Association, located in Cape Town, Republic of South Africa. He holds the master of arts degree from Andrews University (1959).

Robert J. Wieland was born in Iowa and became a Seventh-day Adventist in Florida in 1929, largely as the result of personal Bible study while attending the Presbyterian Sunday School. The only Adventist boy at that time in the local high school, he went through the experience of having to stand alone for Sabbath observance before students and teachers. Academic and musical achievements resulted in pressure from school administration to participate in various functions on Sabbath. Graduating in theology from Columbia Union College in 1939, with the bachelor’s degree, he entered denominational service in the Florida Conference, serving as a pastor until called to Kakoro Mission, East Africa, in 1944. Before sailing for Africa he was ordained to the ministry in the Florida Conference. He served as president of the Uganda and Central Kenya Missions, Voice of Prophecy secretary for the East African Union, and book and periodical editor of the East African Publishing House, until return to America in 1965. Since then he has been a pastor in the South-eastern California Conference, at present serving the Chula Vista Church in the San Diego area. He holds the master of arts degree in theology from Andrews University (1965).