Methodism enjoyed widespread growth in America in the middle to late 1700s and 1800s because of its "circuit riders." Circuit riders, also called "saddlebag preachers," were a different kind of clergy ...

A recent documentary musical released by Gaither Music Group portrays the stories of preachers who rode the trails throughout small towns and settlements early on to spread the gospel of Jesus across ...

Ron Miles, Brian Blade, and Bill Frisell (left to right). The music of Ron Miles, the Denver cornet player, is rooted in jazz, but he’s just as comfortable playing a song by Hank Williams as he is ...

If not for circuit riders, the pioneers in the early days would have had no access to worship services, revivals, prayer meetings and religious training. When the early settlers began moving into ...

"Lancaster County is the largest missions-giving and missions-sending region in the United States." That's according to Luke Weaver, executive director of Ephrata's Gateway House of Prayer. And he ...