Aril Snorre Edvardsen (15 November 1938 – 6 September 2008) was a Norwegian evangelical preacher and missionary, considered one of the most influential Christian figures of all time from Scandinavia. In his youth Edvardsen was active in local politics for the Workers' Youth League, the youth wing of the Norwegian Labour Party, and also performed in a country music band. He claimed to have been born again in 1956, an experience which led him to redirect his life towards evangelical work.

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  • Aril Snorre Edvardsen (15 November 1938 – 6 September 2008) was a Norwegian evangelical preacher and missionary, considered one of the most influential Christian figures of all time from Scandinavia. In his youth Edvardsen was active in local politics for the Workers' Youth League, the youth wing of the Norwegian Labour Party, and also performed in a country music band. He claimed to have been born again in 1956, an experience which led him to redirect his life towards evangelical work. Then, in 1960, he experienced what he described as a calling, instructing him to start worldwide evangelising through the use of native missionaries. In 1965 he founded the organisation Troens Bevis, an organisation that would grow to support around 1000 native missionaries around the world. The organisation today includes a multi-media venture, with daily television broadcasts reaching as many as 200 different nations. In 2007 Aril Edvardsen's son Rune took over leadership of Troens Bevis. Aril Edvardsen was a proponent of reconciliation between Christians and Muslims, and in 2004 directed heavy criticism against Carl I. Hagen, then leader of the Progress Party, for Hagen's derisive comments against the prophet Muhammad. Edvardsen married his classmate Kari when he was 17 years old. It was allegedly while his wife was in the hospital giving birth to the couple's first daughter that Edvardsen went along with a friend to the meeting where his conversion happened. He died 6 September, 2008, in Mombasa, Kenya, where he was vacationing with his wife after a missionary campaign in Zanzibar, Tanzania. According to friends he had experienced cardiac problems in a period before his death. Edvardsen's funeral on 15 September 2008 was attended by some 1,500–2,000 people, including among others the Norwegian Minister of Fisheries and Coastal Affairs, Helga Pedersen.
  • Aril Snorre Edvardsen oli norjalainen saarnaaja, evankelista ja tunnettu karismaattinen kirkollinen vaikuttaja. Hän perusti lähetyssäätiö Troens Bevis Verdens Evangeliseringin vuonna 1965 ja toimi sen johtajana. Häntä pidetään eräänä Norjan kansainvälisesti tunnetuimmista evankelistoista. Aril ja Kari Edvardsenilla on kolme lasta.
  • Aril Snorre Edvardsen var en norsk predikant, evangelist, pinsevenn og leder for den økumeniske misjonsstiftelsen Troens Bevis Verdens Evangelisering som han stiftet i 1965. Edvardsen døde den 6. september 2008 under en reise til Mombasa i Kenya. Han ble 69 år gammel.
  • Aril Edvardsen, född 15 november 1938, död 6 september 2008, var en av Norges mest kända predikanter och grundare av missionsstiftelsen Troens Bevis. 1956 genomgick Edvardsen en radikal omvändelse och 1960 upplevde han en kallelse att starta en världsvid evangelisationssatsning, genom nationella vittnen och nationella kyrkor. 1964 hölls den första av de årliga sommarkonferenserna i Sarons Dal, i Edvardsens födelsebygd Kvinesdal. Här bildades 1965 Troens Bevis och dess missionscenter byggdes upp, från 1966 med radiosändningar på olika språk. 1979 sändes programmen via 60 radiostationer i fyra världsdelar och nådde ut till 80 länder. Under 1980-talet började man även med TV-sändningar, som idag når 200 miljoner människor, dygnet runt. . I januari 2007 övertogs ledningen för Troens bevis av sonen Rune Edvardsen. Som missionspredikant besökte Edvardsen de flesta av världens länder. Under en av dessa resor avled Arild Edvardsen, till följd av ett slaganfall, i Mombasa, Kenya strax efter att han avslutat en evangelisationskampanj på Zanzibar. Den 15 september 2008 begravdes Edvardsen i Sarons Dal. En lång rad officiella gäster var inbjudna av Kvinesdals kommun och Troens bevis och över en kvarts miljon människor följde direktsändningen i norska TV2.
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  • Aril Snorre Edvardsen (15 November 1938 – 6 September 2008) was a Norwegian evangelical preacher and missionary, considered one of the most influential Christian figures of all time from Scandinavia. In his youth Edvardsen was active in local politics for the Workers' Youth League, the youth wing of the Norwegian Labour Party, and also performed in a country music band. He claimed to have been born again in 1956, an experience which led him to redirect his life towards evangelical work.
  • Aril Snorre Edvardsen oli norjalainen saarnaaja, evankelista ja tunnettu karismaattinen kirkollinen vaikuttaja. Hän perusti lähetyssäätiö Troens Bevis Verdens Evangeliseringin vuonna 1965 ja toimi sen johtajana. Häntä pidetään eräänä Norjan kansainvälisesti tunnetuimmista evankelistoista. Aril ja Kari Edvardsenilla on kolme lasta.
  • Aril Snorre Edvardsen var en norsk predikant, evangelist, pinsevenn og leder for den økumeniske misjonsstiftelsen Troens Bevis Verdens Evangelisering som han stiftet i 1965. Edvardsen døde den 6. september 2008 under en reise til Mombasa i Kenya. Han ble 69 år gammel.
  • Aril Edvardsen, född 15 november 1938, död 6 september 2008, var en av Norges mest kända predikanter och grundare av missionsstiftelsen Troens Bevis. 1956 genomgick Edvardsen en radikal omvändelse och 1960 upplevde han en kallelse att starta en världsvid evangelisationssatsning, genom nationella vittnen och nationella kyrkor. 1964 hölls den första av de årliga sommarkonferenserna i Sarons Dal, i Edvardsens födelsebygd Kvinesdal.
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