Andreas Johannessen Lavik (18 August 1854 – 18 December 1918) was a Norwegian revivalist, temperance advocate, magazine editor, farmer, headmaster and politician.
He was born in Eksingedalen as a son of farmer Johannes Andersson Lavik and Kari Andersdotter Kyte.
[1] From 1878 to 1887, Lavik worked as a travelling lay preacher for the organization Bergens Indremisjon.
He served as mayor of Kvinnherad for eight years, and represented the Moderate Liberal Party in Søndre Bergenhus at the Parliament of Norway from 1889 to 1891.
[3][4] He was a co-founder of Det Vestlandske Indremisjonsforbund in 1898,[5] an organization still active today with about 1,500 local chapters.