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Robert Earl Hughes “Bob Hughes’ life prayer was that God would do such a great work that people would one day say, ‘That’s not Bob Hughes’ work; it had to be of God!’” (Christian Hall of Fame)   Robert Earl Hughes: A Missionary’s Brief but Urgent Call Born on August 8, 1932, near Center, Texas, Robert Earl Hughes grew up Read more...

Oliver Boyce Greene “This modern ‘Santa Claus’ religion that is sweeping country today is not the religion Jesus taught and John practiced.” (Oliver Boyce Greene)   Oliver Boyce Greene (February 14, 1915 – July 26, 1976) stands as a significant figure in mid‑20th‑century American evangelicalism—especially within the independent, fundamentalist tradition. Known for his dynamic revival meetings, prolific writing, and the founding of the radio ministry The Gospel Hour, Read more...

George Beauchamp Vick “We either had to sacrifice, and endure, and do without or else quit.” (George Beauchamp Vick)   Early Life and Formation George Beauchamp Vick was born on February 5, 1901, in Russellville, Kentucky. His father had served in politics and law, but eventually entered the seminary and became a pastor. Vick, at a young age, accompanied his father on pastoral visitation, Read more...

Fred Sheldon Donnelson “Thousands of lives were touched by his ministry in both times of peace and war. As a prisoner of war … he displayed … that he never expected of others a price any greater than he himself was willing to pay.” (Anonymous) Early Life and Call to Service Fred Sheldon Donnelson was born on November 16, 1897, Read more...

Dallas Franklin Billington “God is real — see how he has blessed us,” he often says. “This li’l ol’ Kentucky preacher boy made good, and all the credit goes to God.” (TIME Magazine)   Early Life and Call to Ministry Dallas Franklin Billington was born in 1903 in a log house in western Kentucky. Although his parents were devout Christians, Read more...

William Culbertson “Occasionally he would gently say, ‘I want my life to end well.’ That should be our aim.” (Paul W. Powell)   William Culbertson (1905 – 1971): Educator, Leader, and Evangelical Visionary Born on 18 November 1905 in Philadelphia, William Culbertson emerged from modest beginnings to become a major figure in mid-20th-century evangelical education and church leadership. His story Read more...

Walter Lewis Wilson “He is always unique, fresh and popular, but humble, gracious and scriptural.” (Faris Daniel Whitesell)   Early Life and Conversion Walter Lewis Wilson was born on May 27, 1881 in Aurora, Indiana. He grew up in a Christian household (his father was a Methodist minister) yet, like many young men of his era, he drifted from a Read more...

Alva Jay McClain “He will long be remembered as scholar, theologian, educator, master teacher, and Christian gentleman.” (lifecoach4God)   Early Life and Conversion Alva Jay McClain was born on March 30, 1888, in Aurelia, Iowa, and later spent part of his youth in Sunnyside, Washington. Initially a gifted athlete—he attended the University of Washington and was active in sports—his trajectory Read more...

From Builder of Bridges: The more I have read of Dr. Bob’s meetings, the more I have come to realize that regardless of how much men try to “blow up” meetings today to make them look big, they fade into insignificance when compared with the meetings of Dr. Bob and other evangelists during the horse-and-buggy days. Neither time nor space Read more...

Charles Edward Fuller “To know the Word of God, to live the Word of God, to preach the Word, to teach the Word, is the sum of all wisdom, the heart of all Christian service.” (Charles Edward Fuller)   Early Life and Conversion Charles Edward Fuller was born April 25, 1887, in Los Angeles, California, into a family engaged in Read more...

Hymn History: No One Ever Cared for Me Like Jesus Author: Charles Frederick Weigle   “He continued to write music in his old age. … The last time I saw Dr. Weigle … he was sitting in his chair reading the Word of God and putting little notations … at 95 years of age!” (Dr. Lee Roberson)   Early Life Read more...

Robert Pierce Shuler “As I come to the end of my ministry … I can assure you that I have never swerved to the right or left of the fundamental Word of God.” (Robert Pierce Shuler)   Robert Pierce Shuler: The Fiery Prophet of Los Angeles Robert Pierce Shuler (1880–1965) was one of the most outspoken, controversial, and influential Protestant Read more...

William Ashley Sunday is buried in the same cemetery as Paul Harvey (other side of the Des Plaines River). Enter the cemetery near the bus stop, take the second left and proceed to the Haymarket Martyr’s Monument. Following trial, four anarchists were executed by hanging in 1887. Because German Waldheim was not a religious cemetery, it was chosen for the Read more...

Born in Virginia, and raised in Kentucky, Peter Cartwright (1785-1872) was a carnal frontier adolescent. At 16, he attended a revival meeting was “soundly converted.” To this meeting I repaired, a guilty, wretched sinner. On the Saturday evening of said meeting, I went, with weeping multitudes, and bowed before the stand, and earnestly prayed for mercy. In the midst of Read more...

Born November 27, 1862, Bloomfield, Iowa (birth name: Sarah Addison Pollard). Author of over 100 hymns and Gospel songs, Pollard was educated in Denmark, Iowa, Valparaiso, Indiana, at the Boston School of Oratory, and the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago, Illinois. She taught in Chicago, and at the Christian and Missionary Alliance Training School in New York. She worked for Read more...

From Wikipedia: Sheffey was born near the hamlet of Ivanhoe, Wythe County, Virginia, of a locally prominent family, the youngest of five brothers.[2] His mother died when he was two, and he was reared by an aunt in Abingdon, Virginia. Sheffey attended Emory and Henry College in 1839–40, but “his early dislike for books and an aversion for profound study” Read more...

George Duffield Jr., came from a family of preachers. Jr. is a bit of a misnomer – he was the fifth such George Duffield. The first Duffield was a native of Belfast, the second was chaplain to the Continental Congress. The fourth was a Presbyterian minister, as was our subject, Duffield the Fifth. Interestingly, he did not pass on his Read more...

The K in James K Polk stands for Knox. His mother was Jane Knox, a direct descendant of John Knox, the Scottish preacher who faced off against Bloody Queen Mary. His mother, it is said, held to four things: the Bible, the Confession of Faith, the Psalms, and Isaac Watts’ Hymns. His father on the other hand, scoffed at religion. Read more...

Before you leave Plymouth, head on up to Burial Hill. It’s a steep climb, but there are steps. Inside a white fence is not a grave, but a cenotaph, “a monument to someone buried elsewhere.” Adoniram Judson was the son of a Congregational minister in Plymouth, but he fell in with the wrong friends. While at Brown University, he was Read more...

Her funeral was held at her church, now Golden Hill Methodist, close to downtown Bridgeport. She is buried in Mountain Grove Cemetery, built by her friend P.T. Barnum. Just down from Fanny’s grave you’ll see the statue of General Tom Thumb, and Barnum’s own grave. Fanny requested a simple grave, but forty years after her death, the townsfolk built a Read more...