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Francis Asbury (August 20 or 21, 1745 – March 31, 1816) was a British-American Methodist minister who became one of the first two bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States. During his 45 years in the colonies and the newly independent United States, he devoted his life to ministry, traveling on horseback and by carriage ...
The church is named for English Methodist evangelist Francis Asbury, who is credited with disseminating Methodism in the United States in late 18th and early 19th centuries, and who on November 2, 1800, led the first Methodist worship service in East Tennessee. [2] The church sits on land that was donated in 1855 by the Huffaker family.
Barratt's Chapel, built in 1780, is the second oldest Methodist Church in the United States built for that purpose.The church was a meeting place of Asbury and Coke.. The history of Methodism in the United States dates back to the mid-18th century with the ministries of early Methodist preachers such as Laurence Coughlan and Robert Strawbridge.
But GMC leadership preferred Methodist tradition, which dates to America’s first Methodist bishops in 1784, most notably the tireless circuit rider Francis Asbury.
This meant that in the early days of the United States, as the population developed, Methodist clergy could be appointed to circuits wherever people were settling. Early leaders such as Francis Asbury and Richard Whatcoat exercised near total discretion on the selection, training, ordaining, and stationing of circuit riders. [2]
Francis Asbury, one of the first two bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States; Isaac Backus, Baptist preacher; Nathaniel Bartlett, pastor of the Congregational church of Redding, Connecticut, officiated as military chaplain to Putnam's Division during their encampment in Redding the winter of 1778/79
Francis Asbury, later one of the first two bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church, arrived in America on October 27, 1771 after a fifty-three-day ocean voyage from England and received at St. George's. Asbury wrote in his journal, "...we were brought in the evening to a large church, where we met a considerable congregation.
An engraving of an 1882 painting recreating Asbury's ordination as bishop at the Christmas Conference. The Christmas Conference was an historic founding conference of the newly independent Methodists within the United States held just after the American Revolution at Lovely Lane Chapel in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1784.