The First Great Awakening in America, 1726-1742, opened up most of the new colonies to a new level of spiritual awareness and revival spirit. It was…
The first Free Will Baptists in America were known as General Baptists and can be traced to Chowan County in eastern North Carolina and to the…
Like other conservative Christians in the modern era, Free Will Baptists have tended to downplay the importance of history, giving greater attention to affirming themselves as…
See A Historical Sketch of Thomas Helwys from the Helwys Society Forum. See The History of John Smyth and Thomas Helwys. Thomas Helwys, one of three founders of…
The Free Will Baptist Church Covenant was devised by early Free Will Baptists to help members be more responsible to Christ, one another and Christian obligations.…
It was an unexpected treasure…even for Home Missions director of church growth David Crowe, who trolls the Internet like a hungry shark searching for hidden pieces…
Ransom Dunn: Evangelist and Educator “The young minister’s preaching is like a tornado!” So said Dr. George Ball, an early convert who founded Keuka College, a…
When he was 15 years old, David Marks began preaching in New England. In 1820, he was the first Free Will Baptist minister to be dubbed…
His Free Will Baptist friends in the United States knew him as Lewis Penick Clinton. But in Africa, he was known as Prince Somayou Zea Clayou,…
Not many men overhear a sermon from a mile away and surrender to preach because of it. But that’s what happened to Henry Leach in 1808.…