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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 ...
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.
Their ministerial activity boosted Methodism into the largest Protestant denomination at the time, [4] with 14,986 members and 83 traveling preachers in 1784 and by 1839, 749,216 members served by 3,557 traveling preachers and 5,856 local preachers. [5] The early frontier ministry was often lonely and dangerous.
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.
Lorenzo Dow (October 16, 1777 – February 2, 1834) was an eccentric itinerant American evangelist, said to have preached to more people than any other preacher of his era. He became an important figure and a popular writer.
); 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 ...
Robert passed and was given a licentia praedicandi, a license to preach and initiated Robert's life as a licensed itinerant preacher. [7] [5] These itinerant preachers, although often on the borders to heresy, helped to promote the ideas of the reform movement as well as knowledge of Church teachings in the population and spirituality became a ...