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Tyndale Park

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Christian Hall of Fame: William Tyndale was ordained as a priest in 1521, having studied Greek diligently at Oxford and Cambridge Universities, specifically the Textus Receptus. He conferred with Luther in Germany and stayed on the continent translating the Bible from Greek into English and smuggling New Testaments into England. He was betrayed by a friend and was arrested in Read more...
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Eric Liddell Memorial

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The subject of Chariots of Fire, returned to China as a missionary after the Olympics. During World War II he was kept in a Japanese Internment Camp known as Weixian Internment Camp.   Featured Image Credit: Alexandquan, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons   Other photos available from Nicholas Kitto Photos from 1991   http://www.weihsien-paintings.org/NormanCliff/people/individuals/Eric01/txt_monument.htm   https://churchleaders.com/daily-buzz/261525-chinas-hero-eric-liddell-honored-statue.html   Read more...
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Jack Hyles Grave

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jack Frasure Hyles (September 25, 1926 – February 6, 2001) was a leading figure in the Independent Baptist movement, having pastored the First Baptist Church of Hammond in Hammond, Indiana, from August 1959 until his death. He was well known for being an innovator of the church bus ministry that brought thousands of people each week from surrounding towns to Hammond Read more...
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Statue of George Whitfield

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From the UPenn website: Religious figure George Whitefield was born in 1714 in Gloucester, England. He was most known for being an evangelist in America who was part of the Great Awakening and one of the founders of Methodism (George Whitefield, n.d.). The Great Awakening was the religious revival of Christianity that impacted English colonies in America (Great Awakening, 2019). Read more...
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John Jasper Ministry (Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church)

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Much of John Jasper’s childhood and teenaged years were spent working at both Peachy Plantations, one located in Fluvanna County and the other near the city of Williamsburg. At the age of twenty-five, he was sold to Samuel Hargrove, “a devout member and deacon of the First Baptist Church of Richmond.” (www.preaching.com) His relationship with Hargrove would forever change the Read more...
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Moses Tunda Tatamy Marker

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Inscription: A Delaware Indian of the Munsee branch, he exemplified the spirit of reconciliation. He lived on 315 acres northeast of here, patented to him by the Penns, 1738. Tatamy was the first Native American baptized by the famed David Brainerd, 1745. An interpreter, he undertook many diplomatic missions. The borough of Tatamy, incorporated 1893, was named for him. Featured Read more...
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William Bradford Statue

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Back near the waterfront is the statue of the Pilgrim’s Governor, William Bradford. Bradford was the among the first to sign the Mayflower Compact, the first constitution for self-government. His journal, Of Plymouth Plantation, is the record of the challenges and adventures of this brave band of settlers. Featured Image Credit: NortheastAllie, and NortheastAllie. “The Plymouth Rock in Massachusetts – Read more...
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Plymouth Rock

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A group of separtists sought to worship God as guided by their conscience. Known as the Pilgrims, they left England for the Netherlands, but soon their religious freedoms were threatened again by the king they had left. Would the New World be their destination? It would be a dangeorus voyage – and even more deadly if they arrived! In 1620 Read more...
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Hassanamesit

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Inscription: John Eliot established here in 1651 a village of Christian Indians called Hassanamesit – “at a place of small stones.” It was the home of James the Printer who helped Eliot to print the Indian Bible. Featured Image Credit: Photo: Hassanamesit Marker. www.hmdb.org/PhotoFullSize.asp?PhotoID=156695. Read more...
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Aldersgate Flame

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Inscription Text What occurred on Wednesday May 24, 1738, I think best to relate at large, after premising what may make it the better understood. Let him that cannot receive it, ask of the Father of lights, that he would give more light to him and me. I think it was about five this morning that I opened my Testament Read more...
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The Conversion of the Rev. John Wesley and the Rev. Charles Wesley

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Inscription: This tablet is erected to the glory of God in commemoration of the evangelical conversion of the Rev. John Wesley, M. A., on May 24, 1738. (The site of the meeting room of The Religious Society was probably 28 Aldersgate Street), and of the Rev. Charles Wesley, M. A., on May 21, 1738, The site of the house is Read more...
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Union Gospel Tabernacle (now Ryman Auditorium)

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In 1885, a heckler came to Sam Jones‘ meetings. Thomas Ryman (1843-1904) was 42, a Nashville steamboat line owner. He had just moved into a new house, and thought little of this Christian evangelist. But the preaching turned his life around, and he talked to Jones about building a tabernacle for the revival. Seven years and $100,000 later (almost $3,000,000 Read more...
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Captain Ryman Home

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In 1885, a heckler came to Sam Jones‘ meetings. Thomas Ryman (1843-1904) was 42, a Nashville steamboat line owner. He had just moved into a new house, and thought little of this Christian evangelist. But the preaching turned his life around, and he talked to Jones about building a tabernacle for the revival. Seven years and $100,000 later (almost $3,000,000 Read more...
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Wycliffe Memorial

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In front of the Methodist Church is the Wycliffe Memorial in Lutterworth.   Memorial to John Wycliffe, (1324-84). Dated June 1897. Stone with marble panels. Obelisk on granite plinth with four steps to higher rough-hewn granite plinth to stepped pedestal. Panelled foot with inscriptions, coved knop and tall obelisk above. Inscribed ‘John Wycliffe/ Born 1324/ Died 1384/ Rector of Lutterworth/ Read more...
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Robert Aitken and the First English American Bible

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The King James Version of the Bible required the authorization of the King to print (hence the name Authorized Version). The King wanted the colonists dependent on England, and so did not give permission to the colonists to print the Bible, thus all Bibles were imported from England. During the Revolution, the British cut off the supply of Bibles. On Read more...
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John Wesley Statue

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Back in Savannah, from May 9, 1736 to November 27, 1737, John would preach in the Court House (this was prior to the ‘separation of church and state’). His parsonage was near where his statue is in downtown Savannah (GPS: 32.079200, -81.088900) The Methodist Church has recorded these monuments into a “Wesley Trail” of sorts, including the first Methodist church Read more...
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The Wesley Oak

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On March 9, 1736 his brother Charles records setting foot on St Simons Island: “About 3:30 in the afternoon I first set foot on St. Simons Island and immediately my spirits revived.” A memorial garden commemorates his trip. On March 14, 1736 Charles preached under the Wesley Oak: I preached with boldness, on singleness of intention, to about twenty people, Read more...
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William Tyndale Statue

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Just east of St. James Park in London, and just off the bank of the River Thames, in the Whitehall Gardens, is a larger than life statue of William Tyndale. This location is rather ironic, because Whitehall Gardens is the old Privy Garden of the Palace of Whitehall. In 1530 King Henry VIII moved from Westminster to Whitehall, and made Read more...
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William Hunter Monument

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“My lord, if you cannot persuade my conscience by scripture, I cannot find it in my heart to turn from God for the love of the world; for I count all worldly things but loss, in comparison with the love of Christ.”   Thus young William Hunter sealed his fate. In less than a month his teenaged body was burned Read more...
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Andrew Murray Statue & Church

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Watch Doug Whitley in character as Andrew Murray: From Website:   This church is a landmark in the centre of town and boasts a fine statue of the Reverend Andrew Murray, a Scot, and one of the pioneer theologians of the Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa. The Dutch Reformed Mother Church’s congregation moved away from the Paarl congregation in Read more...

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