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Illustration from The Circuit Rider: A Tale of the Heroic Age by Edward Eggleston depicting a Methodist circuit rider on horseback. 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]
In what are now Lake, Summit, and Park counties, he was appointed an itinerant preacher to the mining camps. [2] "Father" Dyer hiked through blizzards and dealt with wild animals to reach remote mining towns, preaching in saloons, tents and on street corners. At times, miners put gold dust in the offering plate, as most were too poor to give ...
Circuit riders, also known as horse preachers, were clergy assigned to travel around specific geographic territories to minister to settlers and organize congregations. [1] Circuit riders were clergy in the Methodist Episcopal Church and related denominations, although similar itinerant preachers could be found in other faiths as well ...
Robert Sayers Sheffey (July 4, 1820 – August 30, 1902) was an American Methodist evangelist and circuit-riding preacher, renowned for his eccentricities and power in prayer, who ministered to, and became part of the folklore of, the Appalachian region of southwest Virginia, southern West Virginia and eastern Tennessee.
In 1654 he left Swarthmore in order to become an itinerant preacher. Towards the end of the year he was joined by John Stubbs, with whom he proceeded to Maidstone . Here they were both sent to the house of correction and harshly treated, but the only charge against them was preaching, and the magistrates released them.
Jewish itinerant preacher A Jewish itinerant preacher, known for having baptized Jesus. He is mentioned by Josephus in the Antiquities, [144] which state that he was arrested and executed by order of the ethnarch of Galilea Herod Antipas. All four Gospels Philip the Apostle: Bishop of Hierapolis
The second was an English preacher from Bedfordshire, James Glasbrook. These two taught Asbury, John Wesley's basic requirements for a Wesleyan itinerant preacher. In January 1766, Mather offered him the opportunity to quit the forge and join the Wesleyan movement as a full-time itinerant on a trial basis. The twenty-one-year-old Asbury accepted.
); born circa 930, [1] died 26 November, 998 [2] [3]) was a Byzantine monk, itinerant preacher, and Christian Orthodox saint. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Perhaps Nikon's most notable historical impact, according to historian Andrew Louth , was his Life , the biography of Nikon written after his death by a successor abbot in his monastery, focused on the re ...