Pilgrim Preachers

The Pilgrim Preachers carried the Gospel all over Britain between 1919-1938/1941.

Founders

• Percival Waddams Petter
• Ernest Edwin Luff (b. 1874 Salisbury, Alderbury, Wiltshire, England - d. 1968 Colchester, Essex, England)

Alumni

• Malcolm Guthrie (b. 1903 Plumstead, Kent, England - d. 1972 Tonbridge, Kent, England)
• William Ewart Jones +1921  (b. 1897) m. Dora Jessie Rowland (b. 1901)
  • THCW bio
• Mr. Higgins - assisted with leadership 1919+, from Yeovil
• David Lawrence II (b. 1895 Treherbert, Wales - d. 1963 Jerome, IA) coal miner in Wales; m. Francis Edna Norris (b. 1893 Sioux City, IA - d. 1993 Corydon, IA)
• Thomas George Lawrence (b. 1905 Treherbert, South Wales - d. 1979 Winston-Salem, NC) coal miner in Wales; later (1931-1934+) pastor @ First Baptist of Slatington, PA; (1940) pastor @ Chester Ave Baptist Church of Philadelphia, PA 
• Tom Mathias Olson - 1923; (b. 1888 Chicago, IL - d. 1974 Los Angeles, CA); also lived Seattle, Oakland;
• William Haydn Rees - 1920-1923; (b. 1905 Treherbert, South Wales - d. 1994 Oxford, England); pastor @ Zion Baptist Church of Girardville, PA 1931-1935; grad. Eastern Baptist Seminary @ Philadelphia 1933;  served with Pilgrim Preachers prior to 1931.
• Garnet Evelyn Thomas (1882-1940), just before his death was living in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England, employed as a Prinester of Religion. He married Winifred Mary Greenway (b. 1887), and had at least one daughter Enid M. Thomas (1919-1997), who married Ernest J. Rowe.  Also served with the Pilgrim Preachers.   Brother of Will Thomas
• Will Thomas  brother of Garnet E. Thomas
• Ernest Woodhouse 1934+ (17 years old) commended from Birmingham, England

Ministry

1910's

• Pilgrim Preachers 1919

1920's

• Pilgrim Preachers 1920
• Pilgrim Preachers 1921
• Pilgrim Preachers 1926
• Pilgrim Preachers 1929

American Pilgrim Preachers

The movement 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

• Grace's Guide
• Yeovil History

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