The birth of evangelicalism and missions had its roots in the pilgrimage of the Puritans coming to America and their evolving into the influencial religious sects that grew from them. The Puritan fled Holland and persecution for their faith, which is today a forrunner of the protestants in America. This is a missionary journey by accident, but in God's perfect plan.
The Puritans were motivated to come to America for freedom of religion. Their desire to establish a free church inspired them to come to the new world America. This was the beginning of the protestant movement in America and the birth of evangelicalism in America. In one of the earliest English settlements in North America, Pilgrims from England first settled in New England in 1620, to form Plymouth Colony. Ten years later, the Puritans settled north of Plymouth Colony in Boston, thus forming Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Roger Williams was banned from Massachusetts, and fled to the Narraganset Bay where Providence, Rhode Island is today. There he started Providence and the new state of Rhode Island. He started the first Baptist church in America. He fled becuse of religious persecution from the Puritans.
The founder of the Quakers in America was William Penn. He left England for freedom of religion. The Quakers were persecuted in England. The Quakers also launched foreign missions during the second half of the century in both America and the Middle East (among the Muslims of Jerusalem and Constantinople). Sweeney, Douglas A. (2005-08-01). American Evangelical Story, The: A History of the Movement (p. 82). Baker Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
During this time period of 1670 - 1730 - the religious movement of churches and religious institutions were being developed through out the 13 colonies. The many churches that were growing were the Congregationalist, Episcopalian churches, Baptist churches, Lutheran churches, and other protestant churches throughout America.
There were many great pastors and preachers that traveled through out America. Thier mission varied in place of ministry, but their message of the gospel to all men was the same. This time period was the greatest evangelistic time period in America and has been name the century of the Great Awakening
Jonathan Edwards was a preacher at a Congregational Church in Northampton, Mass. He preached a message there called "Sinners In The Hands Of An Angry God" and the church experienced great revival. This was the birth message that cause a great stirring for righteousness in America.
In 1740, Whitefield travelled to America where he preached a series of revivals that came to be known as the "Great Awakening". He became perhaps the best-known preacher in Britain and America during the 18th century, and because he traveled through all of the American colonies and drew great crowds and media coverage, he was one of the most widely recognized public figures in colonial America. Mark A. Noll, The Rise of Evangelicalism: The Age of Edwards, Whitefield and the Wesleys (2010)
John Wesley was sent as a missionary from England to the indians in the state of Georgia. While there he thought he was a true believer in God. Eventually he became converted to Christianity and a true believer and realized he was in need of a Savior. He started preaching around the colonies and a great awakening of revival was brought forth. His brother Charles Wesley was a great song and hymn writer. He wrote "And Can It Be". The two brothers were instrumental in bringing revival and the great awakening in America. He also was the founder of the Methodist church movement.
When Brainerd was twenty-four years of age, he entered upon his missionary career among the Indians. The Apostle Paul was his great hero as he carried on his missionary endeavors. He was deeply influenced by the ministry of John Elliot. Brainerd was sent to the Stockbridge Indians in Massachusetts in the year 1743 under the auspices of the Scottish Propagation Society. He established a school for Indian children, and, with the aid of an interpreter, preached to the adults. There was no English family within many miles and his dwelling was a room made of logs. There was no floor other than the hard-packed earth, and his bed was a heap of straw. His principal food was boiled corn and bread baked in the ashes. in May, 1744. A month later he was ordained by the presbytery at Newark, New Jersey. At that period he experienced his greatest success among the red men. He visited the Indians on the Susquehanna regularly and established a church and a school. For some time his health had been failing due to pulmonary consumption. He was invited to come to the home of the distinguished preacher, Jonathan Edwards, at Northampton, Massachusetts. There he died on October 9, 1747, at only twenty-nine years of age.
Some of the many mission organizations that were started in colonial America were Congregational Mission Organization, Methodist Mission, Baptist Churches of America, and many smaller organizations desireing to reach out to the indians and all men in the new America and the frontier.
The Second Great Awakening was a religious revival movement during the early 19th century in the United States, which expressed Arminian theology by which every person could be saved through revivals. It enrolled millions of new members, and led to the formation of new denominations. Many converts believed that the Awakening heralded a new millennial age. The Second Great Awakening stimulated the establishment of many reform movements designed to remedy the evils of society before the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. The second great awakening is a time periond in the 1800's where the church expereince a growth of churches and missionary endeavors. The Second Great Awakening was a Protestant revival movement during the early 19th century in the United States. The movement began around 1790, gained momentum by 1800, and after 1820 membership rose rapidly among Baptist and Methodist congregations whose preachers led the movement.
Adoniram Judson was a son of a Pastor. He did not want to go into ministry work. But after living a life of sin he became a servant of the Lords work. He was the first sent out American missionary from an American Church, The Congregational Missionary Society. He went to Burma for 60ty years. When he got to India and met British missionary William Carey he realized he being an Congregationalist was never properly baptized. So Carey baptized him and then Judson sent home his partner Luther Rice to start a Baptist Missionary society. by 1815 two missionary societys were started by one missionary.
Peter Cartwright was a circuit rider preacher in the states of Tennesse, Kentucky, Illinoise, and other surrounding territories. He started Methodist churches in the mid west and was instrumental in planting more churches than any other church planter in American church planting history.
Charles Grandison Finney (August 29, 1792 – August 16, 1875) was an American Presbyterian minister and leader in the Second Great Awakening in the United States. He has been called The Father of Modern Revivalism Hankins, Barry. The Second Great Awakening and the Transcendentalists. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2004: 137.
The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) is a United States-based Christian denomination. It is the world's largest Baptist denomination and the largest Protestant body in the United States, with nearly 16 million members as of 2012. This also makes it the second largest Christian body in the United States, after the Catholic Church. The word Southern in Southern Baptist Convention stems from its having been founded and rooted in the Southern United States. Following a split from northern Baptists over the issue of forbidding Southern slave-owners from becoming ordained missionaries, members at a regional convention held in Augusta, Georgia, created the SBC in 1845. After the American Civil War, another split occurred when most freedmen left white-dominated churches to set up independent congregations. Many set up their own Baptist churches, regional associations, and state and national conventions, such as the National Baptist Convention, which became the second largest Baptist convention. Others joined new African-American denominations, chiefly the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Since the 1940s, the SBC has moved away from some of its regional and historic identification. Especially since the late twentieth century, the SBC has sought new members among minority groups and become much more diverse. In addition, while still heavily concentrated in the Southern US, the SBC has member churches across the United States and 41 affiliated state conventions. "About Us: Meet the Southern Baptists". Southern Bapotist Convention. Retrieved August 25, 2010.
Dwight Lyman Moody (February 5, 1837 – December 22, 1899), also known as D.L. Moody, was an American evangelist and publisher, who founded the Moody Church, Northfield School and Mount Hermon School in Massachusetts (now Northfield Mount Hermon School), the Moody Bible Institute, and Moody Publishers.
The Young Men's Christian Association (commonly known as YMCA or simply the Y) is a worldwide organization with more than 57 million beneficiaries from 125 national associations.[1] It was founded on 6 June 1844 by George Williams in London and aims to put Christian principles into practice by developing a healthy “body, mind, and spirit.” These three angles are reflected by the different sides of the (red) triangle—part of all YMCA logos. The YMCA was very influential during the 1870s and 1930s, during which times they most successfully promoted “evangelical Christianity in weekday and Sunday services, while promoting good sportsmanship in athletic contests in gyms (where basketball and volleyball were invented) and swimming pools.” Later in this period, and continuing on through the 20th century, the YMCA had “become interdenominational and more concerned with promoting morality and good citizenship than a distinctive interpretation of Christianity.”Today the YMCA is more focused on inspiring youths and their families to exercise and be healthy.
Reuben Archer Torrey (28 January 1856 – 26 October 1928), was an American evangelist, pastor, educator, and writer.
William Ashley "Billy" Sunday (November 19, 1862 – November 6, 1935) was an American athlete who, after being a popular outfielder in baseball's National League during the 1880s, became the most celebrated and influential American evangelist during the first two decades of the 20th century. William G. McLoughlin, Jr., Billy Sunday Was His Real Name (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1955), xvii: "By 1917 he was considered by many the greatest revivalist in American history, perhaps the greatest since the days of the apostles."
Word of Life Fellowship, Inc. is an international evangelistic Christian youth ministry headquartered in Schroon Lake, NY in the Adirondack Mountains region of New York in the United States. It was founded on Long Island in the 1930s by John Von Casper "Jack" Wyrtzen and Harry Bollback. By 1940, Word of Life owned a camp and conference center in Schroon Lake, and the first Bible Institute was founded in 1971. Today, Word of Life has active youth ministry operations in over 67 countries and is involved in a wide variety of activities such as youth camps, Bible clubs, evangelistic campaigns, and radio ministry. It also operates several Bible institutes, including two located in Schroon Lake, New York, and Hudson, Florida, in the United States.
Youth for Christ (YFC) is the name of a number of previously unaffiliated evangelical Protestant religious campaigns which led to the creation of Youth for Christ International in 1946. Youth for Christ is a worldwide Christian movement working with young people around the globe. Motivated by their faith in Jesus Christ, they share the good news of God with young people.
William Franklin "Billy" Graham, Jr. (born November 7, 1918) is an American evangelical Christian evangelist, ordained as a Southern Baptist minister, who rose to celebrity status in 1949 reaching a core constituency of white, middle-class, moderately conservative Protestants. He held large indoor and outdoor rallies; sermons were broadcast on radio and television, some still being re-broadcast today. Graham was a spiritual adviser to several Presidents; he was particularly close to Dwight D. Eisenhower, Lyndon Johnson (who was considered to be one of Graham's closest friends) and Richard Nixon. Even before the civil rights movement,he supported integrated seating for his revivals and crusades; in 1957 he invited Martin Luther King, Jr. to preach jointly at a revival in New York City. Graham bailed King out of jail in the 1960s when he was arrested in demonstrations. Graham operates a variety of media and publishing outlets. According to his staff, more than 3.2 million people have responded to the invitation at Billy Graham Crusades to "accept Jesus Christ as their personal savior". As of 2008, Graham's estimated lifetime audience, including radio and television broadcasts, topped 2.2 billion. Graham has repeatedly been on Gallup's list of most admired men and women. He has appeared on the list 55 times since 1955 (including 49 consecutive years), more than any other individual in the world. Grant Wacker reports: By the middle 1960s, he had become the "Great Legitimator". ...His presence conferred sanctity on events, authority on presidents, acceptability on wars, desirability on decency, [and] shame on indecency....By the middle 1970s, many deemed him "America's pastor". David Aikman (October 9, 2007). Billy Graham: His Life and Influence. Thomas Nelson Publishers. p. 203.
Cru, known as Campus Crusade for Christ around the world, is an interdenominational Christian organization that promotes evangelism and discipleship in more than 190 countries around the world. In 1996, USA Today called Cru the largest evangelical organization in the United States. Today, the organization employs over 25,000 full-time missionaries and has trained 225,000 volunteers around the world. Founded in 1951 at the University of California, Los Angeles by Bill Bright as a ministry for college students, Cru has since expanded its focus to include adult professionals,[2] families,[3] athletes,[4] high school students,[5] and more. The World Headquarters is located in Orlando, Florida, and the current president of the organization is Steve Douglass. Cru is also the publisher of The Four Spiritual Laws, also known as the "Knowing God Personally" booklet. This takes non-believers through the four steps of Christianity and sums up the Gospel in just a few short pages. It provides an overview to those who do not want to feel pressured by someone lecturing them. It's also an easier read for someone who finds the Bible intimidating. On July 19, 2011, it was announced that Campus Crusade for Christ in the United States will be changing their name to Cru in order to overcome existing barriers and perceptions inherent in the original name. This name was already in use on a number of college campuses. American Executive, July 2008
William R. "Bill" Bright (October 19, 1921 – July 19, 2003) was an American evangelist. The founder of Campus Crusade for Christ, he wrote The Four Spiritual Laws in 1952 and produced the Jesus Film in 1979.
Jerry Lamon Falwell, Sr. (August 11, 1933 – May 15, 2007) was an American evangelical Southern Baptist pastor, televangelist, and a conservative political commentator. He was the founding pastor of the Thomas Road Baptist Church, a megachurch in Lynchburg, Virginia. He founded Lynchburg Christian Academy (now Liberty Christian Academy) in 1967, Liberty University in 1971, and co-founded the Moral Majority in 1979. In 1956, at age 22, Falwell founded the Thomas Road Baptist Church in Lynchburg, where he served as pastor. The Church went on to become a megachurch, and is now run by Jerry Falwell's son Jonathan Falwell, who serves in the same capacity as his father. The original church was located at 701 Thomas Road. "Our History". Thomas Road Baptist Church. Archived from the original on August 1, 2008. Retrieved January 6, 2009.
Youth Action Ministries is an international world wide evangelistic ministry to the youth in the inner cities. Predominately in America, but has outreaches in United Kingdom and other Great Britain commonwealth nations. The work is a purely evangelistic mission of reachiing inner city youth and discipling them in local churches. Founded in 1981 and incorporrated in 1986.
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