George Edward Vandeman was a Seventh-day Adventist evangelist who founded the It Is Written television ministry.
13 Facts About George Vandeman
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George Vandeman found a job working at a weekly 15-minute radio broadcast in Elkhart, Indiana.
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George Vandeman received his Master of Arts degree in speech and communication from the University of Michigan.
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George Vandeman was then ordained as a minister, and worked as a field instructor in evangelism at Emmanuel Missionary College for four years.
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George Vandeman then joined the Ministerial Association at the General Conference in 1947, taking the position of associate secretary, and at age 33 becoming one of the youngest to work in Adventist church leadership.
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George Vandeman conducted campaigns in Pittsburgh in 1948, Washington, DC, in 1951 and London in 1952, amongst other places.
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George Vandeman ran the first It Is Written campaign in Fresno, California, in 1958, and later in Washington, DC, Detroit, Philadelphia and other cities.
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George Vandeman was a member of Religious Heritage of America, the Strategy for the Elevation of People Foundation, and the Year of the Bible Committee.
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George Vandeman was invited to presidential briefings during both the Reagan and Bush administrations.
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In 1990, the It Is Written production team and George Vandeman traveled to the Soviet Union to tape "Empires in Collision," an eight-part series.
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George Vandeman served as the primary speaker of It Is Written until his retirement in 1991, when Mark Finley succeeded him.
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George Vandeman died on November 3,2000, at age 84, at his home in Newbury Park, California of heart failure while asleep.
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George Vandeman was survived by his wife, Nellie of Camarillo, California, and by children George Jr.