It Started With a Circuit Preacher

ID: 2351 ~ Source: Foster, Bill C., interviewed by Stephen Sloan, June 7, 2016, in Waco, texas, Baylor Institute for Oral History. View Full Interview
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Bill Foster tells the story of how the Methodist church began, with a circuit preacher near the Brazos in 1849.

This file appears in: First United Methodist Church

By Terri Jo Ryan
First United Methodist Church marks its founding year as 1850, when the Rev. Joseph Perkins Sneed, a circuit-riding Methodist minister, preached to the inhabitants of Waco Village at the foot of Jackson Street on the banks of the Brazos River.…