Re-igniting the Advent Movement Adventist Pioneers

Below are a few of the pioneers who played an instrumental role in the development of the church. Can you match their name to the picture based on the description?

Names:

• John Nevins Andrews • James White • Joseph Bates • J.N. Loughborough • • • Ellen White • • Ellet J. Waggoner • Alonzo T. Jones

• I became a Millerite when I was only 14 years old and accepted the seventh-day Sabbath at 16 years old • I became a pastor at the age of 24 years old • I was responsible for identifying the 2-horned beast of Revelation 13. • I was fluent in seven languages and knew the New Testament by memory. • I was the first official Seventh-day Adventist Missionary • A prominent Seventh-day Adventist University is named after me.

Who am I? ______• I experienced the when still a teenager. At the age of 17, I became a lay preacher for the First-day Adventists. • I accepted the Sabbath at the age of 20 and was called to be a minister by Ellen White. • I was the youngest ordained SDA minister, when I became ordained at 22. I also wrote a book about the advent movement. • I was privileged to see Ellen White in vision more than any other individual except for her husband.

Who am I? ______• I was only 12 at the time of the Great Disappointment. It was also around that time that my leg was amputated due to an infection. • I was 20 when I became a Sabbath keeping Adventist and only 23 when I began to serve as editor of the “Review.” • I was a church leader, writer, editor, poet, hymn writer, inventor and engraver. My sister was also a gifted poet and song writer. • I wrote a very popular book on the Daniel and Revelation

Who am I? ______

www.1158watchmen.com Re-igniting the Advent Movement Adventist Pioneers • I became involved with the Millerite movement at age 12 when I was converted at a camp meeting. • I had my first vision at the age of 17 and had over 2,000 visions in my lifetime. • I was the mother of four children, one who died as a teenager and the other as a baby. • I wrote more than 5,000 periodical articles and 40 books. I have been published in more than 140 languages and am the most translated non-fiction female author.

Who am I? ______• I am considered one of the co-founders of the SDA Church. • I was a sea captain for many years of my life. • Before Ellen White had her Health Reform vision, in 1821 I gave up smoking and chewing tobacco and in 1843 I became a vegetarian and gave up using tea and . • It was the tract that I wrote that led James and Ellen White to embrace the sabbath.

Who am I? ______

• I am an inventor of surgical instruments and exercise devices • By the age of 16 I was a Public School teacher. • The Whites helped pay my way through medical school. • At the age of 24 I became head of the Health Reform Institute. • Unfortunately, my membership was eventually dropped from the church because I held to strange doctrines and refused to be corrected.

Who am I? ______

• I was baptized at the age of 16. • During the winter of 1843, approximately 1,000 people accepted the Millerites message because of my preaching • I started the first Seventh-day Adventist publication • I played a big part in the development of the Adventist educational system. • I served as president of the General Conference numerous times.

Who am I? ______

www.1158watchmen.com Re-igniting the Advent Movement Adventist Pioneers • At age 20, I joined the United States Army, upon leaving, I was later baptized into the SDA church. • I served as an editor of the Signs of the Times and preached on the West Coast. • I played a major role in the message of Righteousness by Faith and the 1888 General Conference Session. • I am often remembered for my work on religious liberty and speaking against a bill in the United States Congress promoting Sunday Observance. • I separated from the SDA denomination and lost my church membership later in life.

Who am I? ______• I was converted into a Congregational Church at the age of 19 and joined the Methodist ministry in 1825. • I preached against slavery and was even arrested in 1835 while praying for the slaves during an antislavery society meeting. • In 1837 I studied what the Bible had to say about the State of the Dead. It was largely due to my study that those who would come to make up the SDA church embraced this teaching. • I never accepted the sanctuary message nor the seventh-day Sabbath truth.

Who am I? ______• I started my careers as a physician until I had a remarkable experience where Christ was set forth before my eyes “evidently crucified” before me. • I am most known for the role I played at the 1888 General Conference Session and my teachings on Righteousness by Faith. • I served as an assistant editor of the Signs of the Times, under my father. • I also use to teach at Emmanuel Missionary College (now ). • In the last years of my life I was separated from the SDA Church.

Who am I? ______

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