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 C. H. Spurgeon
1835 - 1892
Charles Haddon Spurgeon was England's best-known preacher for most of the second half of the nineteenth century. In 1854, just four years after his conversion, Spurgeon, then only 20, became pastor of London's famed New Park Street Church (formerly pastored by the famous Baptist theologian John Gill).
The congregation quickly outgrew their building, moved to Exeter Hall, then to Surrey Music Hall. In these venues Spurgeon frequently preached to audiences numbering more than 10,000 - all in the days before electronic amplification.
In 1861 the congregation moved permanently to the new Metropolitan Tabernacle.
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 Charles Stanley
Dr. Charles Stanley is pastor of the 14,000 member, First Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia. He is the speaker on the internationally popular radio and television program "In Touch".
Dr. Stanley's earliest childhood memories are of God's support during the difficult circumstances following the death of his father. Through the counsel and example of his godly mother and grandfather, he learned to trust and obey God's Word. At the age of fourteen, Dr. Stanley received a clear call to the ministry, which later led him to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Richmond in Richmond, Virginia, and a Bachelor of Divinity degree at Southwestern Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas. He then earned the degrees of Master of Theology and Doctor of Theology from Luther Rice Seminary in Atlanta. Always practical, Dr. Stanley often says, "I feel I cannot honestly tell you how to believe Bible truths, and put these truths to work in your life, until I have first let God work them into my own life."
Dr. Stanley is the author of many books, including The Source of My Strength , The Wonderful Spirit-Filled Life, The Gift of Forgiveness, How to Listen to God, Winning the War Within, and How to Handle Adversity.
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 Mordecai Ham
1877 - 1961
Preaching ran in Mordecai Ham's family. Both his grandfather, for whom he was named, and his father pastored numerous churches in the small Kentucky communities where he was raised. Mordecai Ham first felt the call to preach at age nine, but he resisted until his grandfather's death in 1899. At that time, Ham entered the field of evangelism, traveling and preaching across Kentucky. The results from those early meetings were so great that he was in great demand throughout the South. Ham and his song leader, W. J. Ramsey (known as the Ham and the Ram) saw over 300,000 converts baptized into Baptist churches between 1902 and 1940.
Over 7,000 people surrendered to full-time Christian service under his preaching. Ham stayed in evangelism full-time except for a brief stint as pastor of the First Baptist Church in Oklahoma City 1927-1929. Along with Billy Sunday, he led in the fight for Prohibition, and then later against its repeal. After 1941 Mordecai Ham focused on a growing radio ministry and shorter meetings in churches. God continued to use him for another twenty years to bring hundreds more to faith in Christ.
Billy Graham was saved in 1934 during a series of revival meetings in Charlotte, North Carolina which were led by evangelist Mordecai Ham.
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 Corrie ten Boom
Many Christians know the story of Corrie ten Boom through her book The Hiding Place, and the motion picture released by the same name in the 1970s.
It is the story of a Gentile Christian family who spearheaded a rescue operation in Holland that helped hundreds of Jews escape the Nazi extermination camps.
Like faithful Ruth, the ten Booms took their allegiance to the Jews seriously.
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 Major Ian Thomas
Major W. Ian Thomas was born in London, England of middle class parents and was converted at the age of twelve in a Boy's Camp. With the intention of becoming a missionary in Africa, he studied medicine at London University for two years, where as a student of nineteen, in deep discouragement about his Christian life, he discovered the life-transforming secret of the indwelling life of the risen, living Lord Jesus Christ in the life of the believer. This discovery precipitated him almost immediately into an evangelistic and Bible teaching ministry which has spread around the world.
Arising from this world wide-ministry, there came into being a Young Peoples Christian Conference Center and Bible School at Capernwray Hall, Carnforth, in the North West of England and from this beginning there developed the Capernwray Missionary Fellowship of Torchbearers, of which Major Thomas is the Founder and General Director.
There are now Conference Centers and Bible Schools beyond the British Isles in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Spain, Sweden, Canada, the U.S.A., Australia, New Zealand, India, Indonesia, Japan, Costa Rica and additional Headquarters established in the Sudan, Micronesia, Malaysia and the Philippines.
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