About us At the forefront of battling homelessness through community partnerships and innovative solutions.   Mel Trotter Ministries exists to demonstrate the compassion of Jesus Christ toward anyone experiencing hunger and homelessness. Mel Trotter Ministries exists to demonstrate the compassion of Jesus Christ toward anyone experiencing hunger and homelessness. Through the power of Christ, working to bring an end to Read more...

Inscription Henry Clay MorrisonFamed Methodist preacher & pioneer of the Holiness movement. He came to Barren Co. at age 2 & was raised by his grandparents near here. He became one of nation’s premiere evangelists and was editor of the Pentecostal Herald for 54 years. He was president of Asbury College and founder of Asbury Theological Seminary, Wilmore, Ky. Morrison Read more...

North Carolina Highway Historical Markers Q-37 GEORGE W. TRUETT Pastor First Baptist Church, Dallas, Texas, 1897-1944, president of Baptist World Alliance. His birthplace stands one mile northwest. US 64 southwest of Hayesville. 1950 Read more...

Inscription North Carolina native George W. Truett followed his parents to Texas in 1889, and settled first in Whitewright in Grayson county. He worked on the family farm, attended Grayson Junior College, and became an active member of the Baptist Congregation. A gifted teacher and speaker, Truett was ordained a Baptist minister by the congregation in 1890. Truett had also Read more...

The Voice of the Martyrs: A History of Advocacy, Sacrifice, and Global Witness The Voice of the Martyrs (VOM) is an enduring Christian ministry dedicated to defending, encouraging, and supporting persecuted believers around the world. Founded in 1967 by Pastor Richard Wurmbrand, who himself spent fourteen years in Communist Romanian prisons, VOM has grown into a global fellowship of offices Read more...

Lottie Moon  “I have no doubt … that Miss Lottie would be both amazed and embarrassed at all the fuss that is made about her … Hers was not a perfect life … It was, however, a powerful life … lived for King Jesus.” (Daniel Akin)   The Life and Legacy of Lottie Moon Charlotte Digges “Lottie” Moon, born December 12, Read more...

John Brainerd “His humility, his self-denial, his perseverance and his flaming zeal for God, are exemplary in deed.” (Thomas Coke)   The Life and Legacy of John Brainerd John Brainerd, often remembered as the steadfast younger brother of the famed missionary David Brainerd, carved out his own quiet but durable place in the story of early American missions. While history Read more...

Frances Jane “Fanny” Crosby  “Fanny Crosby was not held back at all by her blindness. And probably the words of her poetry and hymns helped more people to see and know and experience Jesus as anybody with two working eyes … That was her passion.” (Rev. Alfred T. Day)   The Life and Legacy of Fanny Crosby Few figures in Read more...

The Big House — Love’s Legacy by Liz Schafer   Elizabeth Payson was an accomplished and industrious young woman who began a writing career at the age of 16. George Lewis Prentiss was the son of a prosperous shipmaster who became known as a forceful messenger of God’s Word. The two married in 1845, moving from their native Maine to Read more...

SWBTS Legacy: L.R. Scarborough     B.H. Carroll was dying. Though his students and colleagues would later affectionately call him “the immortal B.H. Carroll” as a testament to his ongoing spiritual influence, as far as his earthly residence was concerned, his time was drawing to a close. “My greatest concern is not for myself,” Carroll said as he lay on Read more...

The Gypsy Stone The Gypsy Stone is a small but meaningful landmark long connected with the life and ministry of the evangelist Rodney “Gypsy” Smith, one of the most beloved revival preachers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Located near Epping Forest in England, this simple stone marks the place where Smith, then a young Romani boy living Read more...

History Philadelphia Biblical University is the result of the merger of two Bible schools: the Bible Institute of Pennsylvania and Philadelphia School of the Bible. On July 8, 1913, W. W. Rugh founded the National Bible Institute of Philadelphia. After teaching public school in his earlier days, Rugh spent several years walking a circuit to teach Bible classes throughout eastern Read more...

The Founding Family John Brown Sr., John Brown Jr. and John Brown III   A 17-year-old young man stooped over a rock with a sledge hammer, the pounding reverberating in his ears. From the time he was 11 years old, family circumstances had forced him to work, leaving his education behind. One rainy spring evening, the youth stopped to eat Read more...

Inscription First Baptist Church of Mineral Wells, organized in 1882, grew out of an early revival. William Evander Penn, known as the “Texas Evangelist,” conducted worship services in Palo Pinto County in 1882, and with 54 charter members he established the Mineral Wells Church. It would go on to host additional noted evangelists such as Billy Sunday, Mordecai Ham, Hyman Read more...