The Hard Road of a Methodist Circuit Rider

www.umc.org/videos It’s difficult to comprehend the hardships faced by Methodist circuit riders in early America. It is estimated that Francis Asbury traveled some 270 thousand miles and preached 16,000 sermons during his tenure. The hardships of these pastors on horseback are well-documented in journals penned during days spent alone on the trail and in the personal effects in museums today.
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[@notseb]

Family lore has it that my Gr-Gr-Grandfather was a Circuit Rider Minister in Texas. Are there any lists of databases of Ministers? Thank you.

[@kbanghart]

Thanks for uploading this! One of my ancestors, George banghart was one of the founders of methodism in America, he settled in New Jersey.

[@justamom5520]

my grandfather Grant Anthony Robbins was a circuit rider, as were all his brothers and his father and his brothers and his wife's father and her brothers(the McClures). i come from a long line of methodist circuit riders. i have some of his (my grandfather's) writings attached at the top with a rusted pin, assuming this is pre-staples. my great great uncle was Anthony Bewley, an abolitionist lynched in Fort Worth right before the civil war, around the time my grandfather was born. Bewley was my grandmother's uncle. thanks for the video! many people don't realize it was methodist circuit riders who spread christianity across the country. the methodist were split around the time of the civil war over slavery, my side of the family were abolitionists, and they paid for it dearly, but not as much as the slaves paid for it, of course. my grandparents came across the country in covered wagons, and from there my grandfather rode the circuits. my dad, Grant Anthony Robbins Jr., was born in 1916, the youngest of 4 children.

[@UMCVideos]

Thanks for sharing your story!

[@justamom5520]

@@UMCVideos thank you for listening!

[@robertanderson9084]

Thank you. I am told I am a descendant of a methodist circuit rider in southern Ontario. He later became a farmer who ministered part time.

[@ericavery3054]

"Holiness"

[@brandonmurray782]

Wow