Susanna Wesley Raises Children to Change the World
Susanna Wesley was born Susanna Annesley, the youngest of 25 children, to a nonconformist minister in London, in January 1669. At age 13 she forsook her father’s nonconformist views because she did not...
View ArticleHester Ann Rogers Inspires Women to Holiness
Hester Ann Rogers was born on January 31, 1756, in Cheshire, England. Her father was a Church of England clergyman who died when she was nine years of age. Confirmed – but not converted – four years...
View ArticleOrange Scott forms the Wesleyan Methodists
Orange Scott was born on February 13, 1800 at Brookfield, Vermont. The eldest of eight children, he grew up in Vermont, USA, in an “extremely poor family”. He had little schooling; 13 months in all!...
View ArticleLuther Burgess Bridgers and the Sweetest Name
Luther Burgess Bridgers was born in Margaretsville, North Carolina, on February 14, 1884. His family attended the local Methodist church where Luther’s father taught a Sunday-School class. The family...
View ArticleAmanda Smith the Colored Evangelist
Amanda Jane Berry Smith died, on February 24, 1915. She was born into slavery on a farm in Long Green in Maryland, USA on January 23, 1837. She was the oldest daughter in a family of thirteen children....
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