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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 ...
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.
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.
When he was about eighteen, Caton was chosen one of the quaker preachers for the district, and in his Journal he relates that he was often met with violence by the people of the places in which he attempted to preach. In 1654 he left Swarthmore in order to become an itinerant preacher.
An itinerant is a person who travels habitually. Itinerant may refer to: "Travellers" or itinerant groups in Europe; Itinerant preacher, also known as itinerant minister; Travelling salespeople, see door-to-door, hawker, and peddler; Travelling showpeople, see Carny (US), Showmen (UK)
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The last two moves were to Sunderland in 1838 and Durham in 1839. Durham had worried her because she understood that she might have to preach in Scotland where she believed they would not tolerate a woman preacher. [1] The loss of itinerant woman preachers was high. Over half of the women itinerant preachers had stopped their work by 1837.