Table of Contents

Adventism’s First Family of Mission
The New Andrews/Spicer Collection
John N. Andrews: Scholarship and Mission
John N. Andrews and His Family
John N. Andrews and His Family in Mission Service
Charles Andrews and His Family
The Spicer Connection
John and Dorothy Andrews
John and Dorothy Andrews and Their Family
Tibet (Western China)
Letters from Tibet

Adventism’s First Family of Mission
When one talks about Seventh-day Adventist missions and the names of individuals and families associated with it, several names immediately come to the forefront:. But the name that would lead any list would be that of Andrews.

John Nevins Andrews was the first individual officially sent by the Church to another country with the explicit intention to conduct missionary activities. This occurred in 1874 when John and his family traveled to Europe. Two of the three family members gave their lives due to illness contracted in the mission field. Despite these tragedies “missions” was in the blood of this family because 33 years after the death of John N. Andrews, another John Andrews, the grandson this time, left America for foreign mission service. This new John and his wife, Dorothy, the daughter of William A. Spicer, also well known for missions, spent 15 years as pioneering medical missionaries to the Tibet region of western China.

Family tree of Jeanne Andrews Willumson