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Adventist Pioneer Writings Stories and biographies of our pioneers of the 19th and early 20th Century 

On this Adventist History and Heritage page we include writers and leaders who significantly contributed to the Advent Movement after the “pioneer” days. 

Click on the image to get an MP3 CD of the stories

A great resource for both children and adults is the Pathway of the Pioneers series –stories of the men and women who founded the Seventh-Adventist Church Adventist voice acted and recorded – available as MP3 files or CD-format. Choose the version you want. You can read short summaries of the stories at the Ellen White site: Pathways of the Pioneers. You can purchase the MP3 version or CD version at Pathway of the Pioneers Stories. In Australia you can buy them at the Steps to Life site. You can listen to the stories online for free at the Pathway of the Pioneers Stories page (see bottom of that page)

Let’s Talk, by Jan Paulsen, the 19th president of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists broke new ground when he held unscripted “Let’s Talk” events with persons of the “under 35” generation. You can get a sense of his approach in the Adventist Book Center promo for this book on Youtube, where you’ll also see how to get the book from them. I (Inge Anderson) witnessed one of his totally unplanned/unscripted unofficial events, interacting with young people and answering questions from all ages at one camp meeting in Hope, British Columbia. (Not one of the “official” “Let’s Talk” events.) I was impressed by his totally relaxed and down-to-earth approach – answering honestly even difficult questions. It was apparent that he really cared for young people and wanted them to be engaged in the church He loved. 

In 2010, Paulsen held his 27th formal “Let’s Talk” event, even though Adventist News announced in May  2008, that “this 19th segment of the “Let’s Talk” youth dialogues will be his last. The Let’s Talk website seems to have been taken over as a gateway site to the General Conference site, and no Let’s Talk episodes seem to be available. So the only way for anyone to get a sense of these history-making “Let’s Talk” episodes is to read the book. But don’t expect to get definitive answers to your burning questions. Our church used to be called the Advent Movement, and movement implies that things may change. So, while Paulsen answered honestly, many of those answers simply pointed questioners back to the principles of the Bible. 

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