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John Nevins Andrews (July 22, 1829 – October 21, 1883) was a Seventh-day Adventist minister, the first official Seventh-day Adventist missionary, writer, editor, and scholar. Andrews University (Michigan, USA), a university owned and operated by the Seventh-day Adventist church, is named after him.
J. N. Andrews was the first SDA missionary sent to countries outside North America. He was the most prominent author and scholar of his time, in the Adventist church. Andrews became a Millerite in February 1843 and began to observe the seventh-day Sabbath in 1845. He met James White and Ellen G. White in September 1849. Later, the Whites ...
John Byington (1798 – 1887) 20 March 1863 17 May 1865 2 Years, 2 months 2 James Springer White (4 August 1821 – 6 August 1881) 17 May 1865 14 May 1867 2 Years 3 John Nevins Andrews (22 July 1829 – 21 October 1883) 1867 1869 2 Years 4 James Springer White (4 August 1821 – 6 August 1881) 1869 1871 2 Years 5 George Ide Butler (1834 ...
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The next year, a medical missionary John Nevins Andrews (grandson of Elder J. N. Andrews) and his wife Dorothy Spicer traveled to Tachienlu, an East Tibetan city located in West Sichuan. [5] They started out in a drafty wooden house where the wind blew constantly. [6] In 1921, several houses were built by the mission for general medical services.
Among the approximately 12 people he converted was Thomas G. Aslan, who later made contact with John Nevins Andrews and helped him prepare a Romanian-language paper. Visits in the mid-1880s from George I. Butler , president of the General Conference , and Augustin C. Bourdeau , an evangelist, followed these initial contacts.
Michał Belina Czechowski (September 25, 1818 – February 26, 1876) was a Polish Seventh-day Adventist.On an individual level, he was the first Adventist missionary to Europe, although this was initially unknown by the Seventh-day Adventist church at the time, and J. N. Andrews was the first official Seventh-day Adventist missionary.
"The Andrews family was one of the most prominent in Paris Hill. John Nevins Andrews (1829-1883) was the first official Seventh-day Adventist oversears foreign missionary and the namesake of Andrews University. Charles Andrews (1814-1852), an uncle to John, became a lawyer and politician.