Aril Edvardsen

Aril Snorre Edvardsen (15 November 1938 – 6 September 2008) was a Norwegian evangelical preacher and missionary.

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 (Evidence of Faith), an organisation that would grow to support around 1000 native missionaries around the world.

Edvardsen married his classmate Kari when he was 17 years old.