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From Wikipedia: Dennis James Kennedy (November 3, 1930 – September 5, 2007) was an American pastor, evangelist, Christian broadcaster, and author. He was the senior pastor of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, from 1960 until his death in 2007. Kennedy also founded Evangelism Explosion International, Coral Ridge Ministries (now known as D. James Kennedy Ministries), the Westminster Academy in Fort Lauderdale, the Knox Theological Seminary, radio station WAFG-FM, Read more...
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From Wikipedia: George Müller (born Johann Georg Ferdinand Müller, 27 September 1805 – 10 March 1898) was a Christian evangelist and the director of the Ashley Down orphanage in Bristol, England. He was one of the founders of the Plymouth Brethren movement. Later during the split, his group was labelled as the Open Brethren. He cared for 10,024 orphans during his lifetime,[1][2] and provided educational opportunities for the orphans to the point that Read more...
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From Wikipedia: Gladys May Aylward (24 February 1902 – 3 January 1970) was a British-born evangelical Christian missionary to China, whose story was told in the book The Small Woman, by Alan Burgess, published in 1957, and made into the film The Inn of the Sixth Happiness, starring Ingrid Bergman, in 1958. The film was produced by Twentieth Century Fox, and filmed entirely in North Wales and England.[1] Read more...
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Henry Allan “Harry” Ironside (October 14, 1876 – January 15, 1951) was a Canadian-American Bible teacher, preacher, theologian, pastor, and author who pastored Moody Church in Chicago from 1929 to 1948. from Wikipedia Read more...
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The gravestone of Mary Livingstone, husband of David Livingstone, and daughter of missionary Robert Moffatt in Chupanga (Shupanga). The inscription reads: Here repose the mortal remains of Mary Moffat, the beloved wife of Doctor Livingstone, in humble hope of a joyful resurrection by our saviour Jesus Christ. She died in Shupanga House, 27 April 1862, aged 41 years. Photo Soccerman Read more...
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The Boy Orator of the Plains, Three time Democrat nominee for President, and the Lawyer of the Scopes Trial Read more...
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“Don’t you remember saying, ‘Moody, the world has yet to see what God will do with a man fully consecrated to him?’ ” –Christianity Today Life of Henry Varley – https://www.brethrenarchive.org/people/henry-varley/snippets/life-story-of-henry-varley/ Formerly a nonconformist chapel – https://sites.rootsweb.com/~todmordenandwalsden/mountolivet.htm Remains may have been moved – https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/229500364/henry-varley Read more...
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From Wikipedia: Billy Bray was born in 1794 in the village of Twelveheads, Cornwall, England, UK. He was the eldest of three children born to William Bray, who was a miner, and his wife Ann, who came from Gwennap. William Bray died when his children were young and they were cared for by their grandfather, who was a pious Methodist. After leaving school, Billy Read more...
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Named for the day of his birth, Christmas Evans (1766-1838) was an unlikely evangelist. When he was saved in 1783 he could not read or write. David Larsen records that “Evans was called the John Bunyan of Wales, ‘the one eyed-man from Anglesea,’ and the ‘prophet sent from God.'” Eventually he taught himself Greek and Hebrew to better preach – Read more...
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From FindAGrave: Hymn Writer, Religious Figure. He was a successful businessman in Chicago, Illinois in the late 1800s who lost a great deal of real estate in the Chicago Fire. He penned the famous hymn “It Is Well” after receiving word of the death of his four daughters in an accident at sea on November 22, 1873. Eventually having two Read more...
