First Adventist Missionaries
| First Official Adventist Missionary | |
|---|---|
John Nevins Andrews |
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| Born | 1829 Poland, Maine |
| Died | October 21, 1883 Basel, Switzerland |
| Occupation | Minister, Editor, Church Administrator, Missionary |
| Spouse(s) | Angeline Stevens Andrews (1824-1872) |
John Nevins Andrews left for Europe in 1874 as the first official Adventist missionary. A former president of the General Conference, the world church's governing body, he set out to organize a group of believers in Switzerland. Andrews helped start a publishing house in Switzerland and an Adventist periodical in French, Les Signes des Temps (1876.) Andrews died October 21, 1883 and is buried in Basel, Switzerland.
In 1883 Abram La Rue, a shepherd and woodcutter from California, had an ambition to take the gospel to China. When he wrote to General Conference, they told him that at 65 he was too old. They also said that they didn't have the money to send him. Still determined to go, La Rue negotiated his way onto a ship where he could work his way to Hong Kong. He arrived there in 1888 and began working as a colporteur for the next 14 years.
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