Andrew W Creswell died February 22, 2022 at the age of 94. He was residing in Rio Rancho, New Mexico. He went home to be with his heavenly father, wife and many friends and co-workers. He was born in Pontiac, Michigan February 25, 1927. He attended Muskingham College in New Concord, Ohio. He then served his country in the US Navy. He then attended Fuller Theological Seminary and later Pitt Xenia Seminary. He married Margaret M. Mehaffey August 31, 1951. He also acquired a daughter, Mary Katherine Mehaffey. He pastored the Minneola Community church from 1952 to 1958. He and his family then served in the Sudan Interior Mission in Omderman, Sudan. There he founded the Gideon Theological Seminary that still exists today. He then served ELWA mission in Liberia. Here he preached and taught over the radio to all of Africa. His grasp of Arabic was so good the people hearing did not know he was an American. He then pastored in Jordan and then back to the Sudan. After the death of his wife he continued to go back to Sudan to work with the seminary students. He is survived by his daughter Mary Katherine Creswell Trotter and husband, R.C Trotter, MD, Dodge City, Kansas and three grandchildren, Shannon, Courtney and Seth and eight great grandchildren