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An itinerant preacher (also known as an itinerant minister) is a Christian evangelist who preaches the basic Christian redemption message while traveling around to different groups of people within a relatively short period of time. [1] The usage of these travelling evangelists is known as itineracy or itinerancy. [2] [3]
1810 American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions; 1814 American Baptist Missionary Union (later known as American Baptist Foreign Mission Society and then American Baptist International Ministries) c. 1818 Female Missionary Society [4] 1819 Methodist Episcopal Church Missionary Society; 1826 American Home Missionary Society
The Christian Research Institute (CRI) is an evangelical Christian apologetics ministry. [1] [2] It was established in October 1960 in the state of New Jersey by Walter Martin (1928–1989). [3] In 1974, Martin relocated the ministry to San Juan Capistrano, California. [4] The ministry's office was relocated in the 1990s near Rancho Santa ...
The first Church Army evangelists began operating in the United States in around 1925. [7] Church Army USA was formally organized in 1928. [8] [9]In its early decades in the U.S., Church Army USA focused on service and evangelism in "mental hospitals, homes for the elderly, in areas of migrant workers, inner city ministries, [and] American Indians in the Dakotas and Alaska."
Vance Havner (October 17, 1901 – August 12, 1986) was an American Southern Baptist minister, evangelist, and author.Over a ministry career spanning more than seven decades, he became widely recognized for his concise preaching style, commitment to biblical authority, and focus on revivalism.
Although the threat posed by Irvine to the church's organization had been dealt with, the prominent worker Edward Cooney refused to place his evangelistic efforts under the control of the overseers. Cooney himself adhered to the earlier, unfettered style of itinerant ministry, moving about wherever he felt he was needed. [60]
Retaining the superintendency of this mission for two years, he subsequently continued in the itinerant ministry as pastor and presiding elder till 1845, when he was appointed chaplain of the Ohio Penitentiary. He retained this office till 1849. During his later years he acted as conference missionary and pastor of churches in southern Ohio. [3]
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