George Edward Vandeman (October 21, 1916 – November 3, 2000), was a Seventh-day Adventist evangelist who founded the It Is Written television ministry.#
Vandeman was born in 1916, on 21 October. At the age of 21, he attended Emmanuel Missionary College (now Andrews University) in Berrien Springs, Michigan. He found a job working at a weekly 15-minute radio broadcast in Elkhart, Indiana. While there, he met Nellie Johnson and they were married th...
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George Edward Vandeman (October 21, 1916 – November 3, 2000), was a Seventh-day Adventist evangelist who founded the It Is Written television ministry.#
Vandeman was born in 1916, on 21 October. At the age of 21, he attended Emmanuel Missionary College (now Andrews University) in Berrien Springs, Michigan. He found a job working at a weekly 15-minute radio broadcast in Elkhart, Indiana. While there, he met Nellie Johnson and they were married the following year on October 2, 1938 in South Bend, Indiana. After completing his second year of college, Vandeman began working as a full-time evangelist. During a series of meetings in Muncie, Indiana, Nellie gave birth to their first child, George Jr. The birth of their sons Richard and Robert soon followed. The Vandeman's fourth child, Connie, was born in 1956.
Vandeman received his Master of Arts degree in speech and communication from the University of Michigan. His 1946 thesis was entitled, "Spurgeon's theory of preaching". He was then...
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