Indian Christianity

HISTORY OF CHRISTIANITY IN INDIA : M. M. NINAN
Stephen Haskell and Percy Magan crossed India on their mission survey around the world in 1890, in
their round the world mission trip soon after the establishment of the SDA . This was the first mission trip
of the Church. it was not till 1893 that William Lenker and A. T. Stroup started selling Adventist literature
in Madras. Shortly before their arrival Anna Gordon passed away. She had begun to observe the
Sabbath in London and went to India as a self-supporting missionary.
The first regular Adventist worker to reach India was Georgia Burrus who arrived in Kolkata on Jan 23,
1895. In 1895 D. A. Robinson, Georgia Burrus, and Martha May Taylor--the first workers appointed by
the Mission Board--began Adventist work in Calcutta, then the capital of British India..
Elder Stephen N Haskell
and the letter Haskel wrote to Mrs. Ellen G White
Georgia Burrus worked in the zenanas of Baliaghatta and Dores Robinson opened the first Adventist
schools (1896, 1897) for girls. An orphanage for boys opened in 1897 but moved to Karmatar, Jharkhand
(1898) for vocational training. Dr O. G. Place and nurses Samantha Whiteis and Maggie Green opened
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