Seventh-day Adventist Church Pioneer
The Seventh-day Adventist Church pioneers were members of Seventh-day Adventist Church , part of the group of Millerites , who came together after the Great Disappointment across the United States and formed the Seventh-day Adventist Church . In 1860, the pioneers of the fledgling movement settled on the name, Seventh-day Adventist, representative of the church's distinguishing beliefs. Three years later, on May 21, 1863, the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists was formed and the movement became an official organization. Overview TheSeventh-day Adventist Church had its roots in the Millerite movement of the 1830s and 1840s, during the period of the Second Great Awakening, and was officially founded in 1863. Prominent figures in the early church included Hiram Edson, James Springer White and his wife Ellen G. White, Joseph Bates, and J. N. Andrews. Many of the Adventist pioneers first began their work when they were teenagers. When the Seventh-day Adventist Church was ne...
