From WMF: The original First Baptist Church in Mawlamyine, Mon State, was constructed in 1827 by Adoniram Judson, an American missionary who spent nearly 40 years in Myanmar (Burma) in the early nineteenth century. Well beyond the issues of religious conversion, the Judson experience in Burma nurtured an environment that has profound effects on Mawlamyine today. The hospitals, schools, and Read more...
From the website: The Boneyard Creation Museum is a non-profit educational museum located in Broken Bow, Nebraska for the purpose of displaying scientific evidence for creation and showing the difference between evolution and creation. We believe in the accuracy of the Bible and firmly believe that the earth is thousands of years old, not billions. The museum has many fossil and replica displays highlighting the many problems that Read more...
From Wikipedia: The Billy Graham Library is a public museum and library documenting the life and ministry of Christian evangelist Billy Graham. The 40,000-square-foot (3,700 m2) complex[1] opened to the public on June 5, 2007.[2] The library is located on the grounds of the international headquarters of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association in Charlotte, North Carolina, a few miles from where Graham was reared. The library is styled after Read more...
From Wikipedia: Montgomery himself expected that his name would live, if at all, in his hymns. Some of these, such as “Hail to the Lord’s Anointed”, “Prayer is the Soul’s Sincere Desire”, “Stand up and Bless the Lord” and the carol “Angels from the Realms of Glory”, are still sung. “The Lord Is My Shepherd” is a popular hymn with Read more...
From Wikipedia: St. Mary of Zion claims to contain the original Ark of the Covenant. Reportedly, the Ark was moved to the Chapel of the Tablet adjacent to the old church because a divine ‘heat’ from the Tablets had cracked the stones of its previous sanctum. Emperor Haile Selassie’s wife, Empress Menen, paid for the construction of the new chapel.[citation needed] According Read more...
The only Free Lutheran Church in Copenhagen, started by Niels Pedersen Grunnet (1827-1897) From Christian Cyclopedia: (February 19, 1827–January 13, 1897). B. North Bjert, near Kolding, Den.; joined the Staerke jyder (Strong Jutlanders) movement formed ca. 1800 in opposition to rationalism; taught school at Hedensted and Egtved; soldier 1848; studied theol. at the school of the Basel* Miss. Soc. 1851–54; dismissed because of his refusal to embrace a compromising confessional Read more...
Eric Liddell was known as the “Flying Scotsman” even though he was born in China. Yet when the 100 meter Olympic qualifying rounds were announced for Sunday, July 6th, 1924, Eric knew he could not participate in the race he was considered the clear favorite. Instead, on Sunday, July 6th, Eric preached the Sunday morning sermon at The Scots Kirk Read more...
The National Memorial for the Unborn is located at 6230 Vance Road, Chattanooga, Tennessee, near the airport. The memorial was built in 1993 after a Pro-Life Coalition bought the Chattanooga Abortion Clinic in bankruptcy court. This was an amazing answer to many years of prayers and protests by the group. The clinic was closed, and we opened a crisis pregnancy Read more...
From Wikipedia: The 1924 Summer Olympics were hosted by the city of Paris. A devout Christian, Liddell refused to run in a heat held on Sunday and was forced to withdraw from the 100-metre race, his best event. The schedule had been published several months earlier, and his decision was made well before the Games. Liddell spent the intervening months training for Read more...
The Roger Williams National Memorial is the first National Park in Rhode Island, barely 4 acres, but according to the National Park Service, “commemorates the life of the founder of Rhode Island and a champion of the ideal of religious freedom. Williams, banished from Massachusetts for his beliefs, founded Providence in 1636. This colony served as a refuge where all Read more...
“However, from an historical viewpoint, this church is most famous for being the place where Charles Haddon Spurgeon – a very famous Victorian preacher – was converted in January 1850. As a lad of 15, Spurgeon was struggling up Hythe Hill in a snow blizzard one Sunday, trying to get to another church in Colchester. He realised he was not Read more...
From the Lutterworth Museum: In 1374 this early church reformer was made Rector of Lutterworth as a royal reward for his diplomatic services. He appointed a curate to carry out his parochial duties while he preached sermons and wrote tracts, in Oxford and London, that threatened the doctrines of the Roman Church. The first translation of the Bible into English Read more...
UKWells: The Church of Scotland and the Free Church had given out an instruction that everyone should pray for revival. This was not difficult for the people were well practised. Prayer was the basis of the 1934 and 1939 revivals. Prayer was woven into the very fabric of the church in Barvas and many spontaneous prayer meetings would start as Read more...
From the website: THE REDISCOVERY How it was lost The Baptism Site was a major Pilgrim Station from the days of John the Baptist. Even after he died, many of his students stayed in the area which was the birthplace of Christianity. Churches were built near the site, monks lived in caves, and pilgrims visited the site. This tradition continued Read more...
From Wikipedia: At the time he was writing “We Three Kings” in 1857, John Henry Hopkins Jr. was serving as the rector of Christ Episcopal Church in Williamsport, Pennsylvania.[4][9] Although he originally worked as a journalist for a New York newspaper and studied to become a lawyer,[5][10] he chose to join the clergy upon graduating from the University of Vermont.[11] Hopkins studied at the General Theological Seminary in New York City and after graduating and being ordained a deacon in Read more...
Jonathan Edwards was assistant pastor of the Northampton church from 1726 to 1729, and senior pastor from 1729 to 1750. Edwards started in the “Second Meetinghouse” and built the “Third Meetinghouse” during the Great Awakening in 1737. The current structure, aka “The Fifth Meetinghouse,” was built in 1878. Read more...
Inscription: William (Billy) Franklin Graham preached his first sermon on Easter Sunday night, March 28, 1947 at the Bostwick Baptist Church near Palatka, Florida. Graham was born in Charlotte, North Carolina on November 17, 1918. He was saved in a Mordecal Ham crusade when he was 16 years of age. He preached his first sermon at Bostwick Baptist Church while Read more...
John Eliot (1604-1690) was born in Widford, England, and graduated from Cambridge. He worked for Thomas Hooker (founder of Connecticut) at his school in Essex. When Hooker escaped England for the Netherlands, Eliot came to Boston in 1631, where he helped compile the Bay Psalm Book. For over forty years he would preach in Roxbury. Many of the Christians who came Read more...
