Logos: August 03, 2024 Click here to read | Click to download

In its very earliest days, the Seventh-day Adventist Church had no specific "youth ministry"; young people were as active and involved in the work of the church as older ones were. Indeed, the original Advent movement was very much a youth movement, led by people like James White, who began preaching at twenty-one, Ellen White, who received her first vision at age seventeen, and John Loughborough, who began preaching when he was seventeen.