Who is the American Independent Baptist evangelist that led Billy Graham to Christ?
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Burton Memorial Baptist Church Burton Memorial Baptist Church (formerly Drakes Creek Baptist Church) is a historic church on Cemetery Road in Bowling Green, Kentucky.The Church was organized December 28, 1850 by Mordecai F. Ham Sr., originally under the full name of "The United Baptist Church of Jesus Christ called Drakes Creek". Mordecai Ham Sr. was buried after his death at the Church Cemetery. His grandson, Mordecai F. Ham Jr., who is perhaps best known for leading Billy Graham to Christ, would later be ordained into ministry at then Drakes Creek Baptist Church.
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Mordecai Ham Mordecai Fowler Ham, Jr. (April 2, 1877 – November 1, 1961), was an American Independent Baptist evangelist and temperance movement leader. He entered the ministry in 1901 and in 1936 began a radio broadcast reaching into seven southern states. Early in his ministry, he was ordained at Burton Memorial Baptist Church in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
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Daniel L. Akin Daniel Lowell "Danny" Akin (born January 2, 1957) is the sixth president of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary and the College at Southeastern in Wake Forest, North Carolina. A leader in the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), he has authored and edited numerous books and journal articles and is best known for his commitment to expository preaching and to the Great Commission.
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Power Evangelism Power Evangelism is a book by Christian charismatic leader John Wimber. The term is also applied to the movement and the process described in the book.
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Sam Fife Samuel Drew Fife Jr. (1926 – April 26, 1979) was an ex-Baptist preacher who started and became the principal leader of an international non-denominational Charismatic Christian group known as "" and the "Body of Christ". Fife's followers regard him as a modern-day apostle and prophet.
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William Jernagin William Jernagin (1870 – 1958) was an African-American Baptist pastor and Pan-African activist.
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Carey Baptist Church Carey Baptist Church is an independent evangelical/Baptist church in Reading, England.
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John Jay Butler John Jay Butler (April 9, 1814 – 1891) was an ordained minister and theologian in the early Free Will Baptist movement in New England, serving as Professor of Systematic Theology at Cobb Divinity School at Bates College in Maine and later at Hillsdale College in Michigan.
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Billy James Hargis Billy James Hargis (August 3, 1925 – November 27, 2004) was an American Christian evangelist. At the height of his popularity in the 1950s and 1960s, his "Christian Crusade" ministry was broadcast on more than 500 radio stations and 250 television stations. He promoted an anti-Communist, segregationist message as well as evangelizing, and founded a radio station, monthly newspaper, and a college in Tulsa, Oklahoma, to support his ministries. In 1974, several students at his American Christian College accused Hargis of sexual misconduct; however, the Tulsa district attorney found no evidence or wrongdoing. Hargis went into partial retirement, and the college closed in 1977. He continued to publish his newspaper and write books.
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Kevin O'Brien (Texas pastor) Kevin O'Brien, usually known as Brother Kevin (October 31, 1955 – February 27, 2008), was an Independent Baptist clergyman who served as the pastor of Bethany Baptist Church in Lubbock, Texas, from October 1996, until his death at the age of fifty-two from prostate cancer.
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Baptist Bible Fellowship International The Baptist Bible Fellowship International (BBFI) is a conservative Baptist organization formed in 1950 by members who broke away from the World Baptist Fellowship as the result of a leadership dispute with J. Frank Norris.
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American Baptist Churches USA The American Baptist Churches USA (ABCUSA) is a Baptist Christian denomination within the United States. The denomination maintains headquarters in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. The organization is usually considered mainline, although varying theological and mission emphases may be found among its congregations, including modernist, charismatic and evangelical orientations. It traces its history to the First Baptist Church in America (1638) and the Baptist congregational associations which organized the Triennial Convention in 1814. From 1907 to 1950, it was known as the Northern Baptist Convention, and from 1950 to 1972 as the American Baptist Convention.
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Eddie Long Eddie Lee Long (May 12, 1953 – January 15, 2017) was an American pastor who served as the senior pastor of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church, a megachurch in unincorporated DeKalb County, Georgia, from 1987 until his death in 2017.
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Percy Crawford Percy Bartimus Crawford (October 20, 1902 – October 31, 1960) was an evangelist and fundamentalist leader who especially emphasized youth ministry. During the late 1950s, he saw the potential of FM radio and UHF television and built the first successful Christian broadcasting network. He also founded The King's College and Pinebrook, a Bible conference in the Pocono Mountains.
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International Assemblies of God Fellowship The International Assemblies of God Fellowship is an independent, cooperative fellowship of ministers, ministries and churches of Trinitarian Baptistic Pentecostals. Their membership is worldwide, and all churches are independent and autonomous of the fellowship. Dr. Phillip Murray is the President.
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Bellevue Baptist Church Bellevue Baptist Church is a large Southern Baptist megachurch in the Cordova area of Memphis, Tennessee, United States. Bellevue is the largest church in Memphis and is one of the leading churches in the Southern Baptist Convention. Bellevue's goals are to "Love God, Love People, Share Jesus, and Make Disciples." The church's head pastor has been Dr. Steve Gaines since 2005.
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James Martin Graham James Martin Graham (February 10, 1956 – July 3, 1997) American Roman Catholic priest, founder of The Sts. Martin & James Respite in Waterbury, Connecticut and Director of the International Christian AIDS Network (ICAN).
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Hugo McCord Hugo McCord (1911–2004) was an American preacher and biblical scholar within the Churches of Christ in America. He produced his own translation of the New Testament (and Genesis, Psalms, and Proverbs), titled "The Everlasting Gospel", which he affectionately called the Freed-Hardeman Version.
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National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc. The National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc. (National Baptist Convention) is the largest predominantly African-American Christian denomination in the United States. It is headquartered at the Baptist World Center in Nashville, Tennessee. The denomination claims approximately 31,000 congregations.
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Maria Woodworth-Etter Maria Buelah Woodworth-Etter (July 22, 1844–September 16, 1924) was an American healing evangelist. Her ministry style would serve as a model for Pentecostalism.
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Albert Benjamin Simpson Albert Benjamin Simpson (December 15, 1843 – October 29, 1919), also known as A. B. Simpson, was a Canadian preacher, theologian, author, and founder of the Christian and Missionary Alliance (C&MA), an evangelical denomination with an emphasis on global evangelism.
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E. E. Cleveland Edward Earl Cleveland (March 11, 1921 – August 30, 2009) commonly known as E. E. Cleveland was an author, civil rights advocate and evangelist of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.