Three female deacons in the United Methodist Church in Colorado recently found themselves without any paid position in a congregation. Two of them had been laid off by their congregations for ...
Tim Ferrell is a Cumberland Presbyterian minister who serves two congregations. Paul Edwards is a United Methodist pastor who serves three congregations in Stewart County. CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. -- The ...
In March 1912, when Fannie Williams Owen was approaching her 89th birthday, she vividly recalled a day 77 years earlier when ...
From about 1784 to 1890, Methodism in what is now the southeastern United States was fostered by "circuit riders." The term was an American coinage and the circuit rider traveled by horseback from ...
Several of the tympanums above the doors of First United Methodist Church have sculptural groups. The south door of Wesley Hall has a descending dove, perhaps an appropriate subject for Pentecost and ...
LENORA — The Rev. John Dyer, founding circuit rider of the historic Lenora United Methodist Church, will appear at the 1856 church for his annual visit at 3 p.m. July 8. The Lenora Church is in the ...
Methodism enjoyed widespread growth in America in the middle to late 1700s and 1800s because of its "circuit riders." Circuit riders, also called "saddlebag preachers," were a different kind of clergy ...
The banners on the front of the Stroudsburg United Methodist Church on Eighth and Main streets, Stroudsburg, proclaim that the church is celebrating its 225th anniversary this year, but the biggest ...
If not for circuit riders, the pioneers in the early days would have had no access to worship services, revivals, prayer meetings and religious training. When the early settlers began moving into ...
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