first non-convict residents of Norfolk. The Pitcairn ship brought the first Adventist missionaries and three Pitcairn islander converts to Norfolk in 1891. They shared the Adventist message with their relatives, quickly establishing an Adventist Church in part of the old prison. The Pitcairn'' would visit several more times over the years. The same ship was later depicted on several Pitcairn Island stamps discussed below. In 1981 Norfolk Island issued a 24c Christmas stamp depicting the island's Seventh-day Adventist Church with its sign and the printed words SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH in all caps. Samoa Samoa (Western Samoa until 1997) has made three Seventh-day Adventist related issues to date. The first stamp issued in 1970 shows the Seventh-Adventist Sanatorium (hospital) building in Apia which served from 1896 to 1906. The 1979 Christmas miniature sheet includes four stamps showing different churches and an additional five churches surrounding the actual stamps. A Seventh-day Adventist Church is shown in the lower left of the sheet. A 2007 stamp featured the Fusi Saoluafata church, on Upolu Island with the heading "SDA Church". It came in a pane of 12 stamps showing various church buildings on the islands. Pitcairn Island The small isolated UK colony Pitcairn Island has issued the most stamps with a Seventh-day Adventist connection of any postal authority due to the strong connection to the island. Pitcairn started printing stamps in 1940 and although there is little demand for postage from the less than 50 people in the local population, postal releases by Pitcairn are highly collected around the world and represent a significant part of the isolated island's revenue. Seventh-day Adventist connected issues include: 1958:The church school and teachers house stamps 1975: The Pitcairn owned by the Adventist church. 1977: The island church, which is the Seventh-day Adventist church on the island. 1986: A series of four stamps to celebrate 100 years of Adventism on the island. The stamps show the four successive Adventist Churches built on the top of each stamp with the lower portions showing John Tay, the Pitcairn mission schooner (again), a baptism, and members singing hymns to a departing ship. 1997: A series of four healthcare stamps depicted the Adventist-operated Island Health Center 1997: A second island church stamp 2012: Roy Clark (1893-1980) shown with his wife May. Clark served as the island postmaster, schoolmaster, Adventist church elder and historian. At least three more Adventist individuals have been