Pilgrim Preachers
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The Pilgrim Preachers carried the Gospel all over Britain between 1919-1938/1941.
Founders
Alumni
- J.K. Braun - Zanesville, OH
- Malcolm Guthrie
- William Ewart Jones
- David Lawrence - coal miner in Wales
- Thomas G. Lawrence - coal miner in Wales; later (1931-1934+) pastor @ First Baptist of Slatington, PA; (1940) pastor @ Chester Ave Baptist Church of Philadelphia, PA
- Tom M. Olson - 1923
- Hayden Rees - 1920-1923; b. Treherbert, South Wales; pastor @ Zion Baptist Church of Girardsville, PA 1931-1935; grad. Eastern Baptist Seminary @ Philadelphia 1933; served with Pilgrim Preachers prior to 1931.
- Garnet Thomas
- Will Thomas
- William Thomas - from Toronto
- Ernest Woodhouse 1934+ (17 years old) commended from Birmingham, England
Ministry
It inspired Moody Bible Institute to start the "American Pilgrim Preachers" eventually directed by Edward H. Page of Steuben, Maine, who resigned a pastorate at the Steuben Union Church in 1929 to join them, with the assistance of his wife and Lee Wilson.
Also See
General
- The Pilgrim Preachers' Chorus Book; Pickering & Inglis, 1923.
Ernest Luff
- He Dared To Believe: Life Story of Ernest Luff by Jean A. Rees; Worthing, 1958, 1963.
- God Has Resources: From The Pilgrim Preachers To The Ernest Luff Homes by Donald Bridge; Paternoster, 1982.
- 2010 merger of Ernest Luff Homes with Pilgrims' Friend Society
Percival Petter
Contents
Sources
- photo acquired by Albert Edgar (b. 1911 Dalbeattie, Kirkcudbright, Scotland - d. 1999 Winnipeg, MB), son of Robert Boyes Edgar (1875-1927) & Janet Elliot Edgar (1871-1946), founders of the Ashburn Cottage Gospel Hall, Scotland 1908-1927
- courtesy of Albert's daughter Janet Edgar Taylor of Niagara Falls, Ontario 8-20-2020