Elam Jackson Daniels was born in Suwannee County, Florida on November 1, 1908. His father was a farmer-timberman and his mother was a school teacher. He graduated from Branford High School in Branford, Florida in 1929. Daniels attended Stetson University and Southern Florida Baptist School at Plant City where he received a certificate and did
As a 16-year-old boy, Chiles went forward to accept Christ at a Billy Graham crusade and was counseled at the altar by Graham associate Cliff Barrows. A year later, Chiles sensed a call to vocational evangelism at a Youth for Christ meeting where Graham was preaching. Clyde Chiles began his full-time evangelistic ministry in 1956
In 1951, 17-year-old Sam, a high school senior, was called as Pastor of a newly established Mission. He pastored there until May 1952. He enrolled in college but in January 1955, 20-year-old Sam dropped out of the university and moved to Michigan. “I thought I was going to get a job, pay off the school,
When Wayne Bristow answered God’s call to preach, he immediately had a desire to go beyond the West Texas and Eastern New Mexico horizons of his youth. He was a 16 year-old high school student stocking shelves and sacking groceries at the local supermarket. He remembers arranging cans on the shelves while day-dreaming of being
At age 34, he became pastor of the second largest church in the denomination. He became the youngest man ever to serve as President of the Southern Baptist Convention. He served as President of the Southern Baptist Convention and the Oklahoma Baptist Convention simultaneously. As a pastor he has led more people to Christ than
Called to preach at the age of 19, Bill Stafford surrendered after a time of rebellion in his teenage years. In an interview with The Christian View, he said of his early years, “My Mom and Dad kept me in church. I got saved when I was 12. I was raised in a Christian atmosphere.
The soul agony and core burden of Jerry Spencer is to see people receive The Lord Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior! It is his calling and determined desire to equip, encourage and edify believers in their daily walk with Christ. In America, Dr. Spencer conducts evangelistic meetings, revivals, mission conferences, senior adult rallies and
Born in Woodruff, South Carolina in 1910, J. Harold Smith grew up in the Greenville area. He graduated from Furman University with the intention of going on to medical school. He found Christ on the porch of his sister Mildred’s home in 1932, and shortly thereafter surrendered to preach. In his first revival shortly after
Born November 7, 1918, William F. Graham was reared on a dairy farm in Charlotte, North Carolina. Growing up during the Depression, he learned the value of hard work on the family farm, but he also found time to spend many hours in the hayloft reading books on a wide variety of subjects. In the
When first called into full-time evangelism, he recalled, a number of people told him he needed a brochure. “I didn’t have any brochures,” Gilchrist said. “I was told that was the way to go about getting revivals.” So with a wife, five children and one on the way, Gilchrist quickly placed an order for several