Donate to FGGAM Pictured here with longtime Deacon of FBC of Reserve Charles McCargish!! Awesome Mother’s Day Service! Great turn out!!! We had many visitors!  Charles is one of my heroes of faith!
Almost hit two elk on way to Reserve and a wolf!!! PTL for protection!

I thank my Lord so very much for giving me the assignment of being a circuit preacher!!! So very grateful for what I have learned about God and His people!!! Also I’m so grateful for my wife, Sharon who understands the hours!!! I thank the Lord also for all the friends I have made over the last 4 1/2 years in my travels!! I’m so very blessed! Awe of God!!!

Can you help us go forth here and finish 2017 strong by a love offering to FGGAM? We need your help with gas for the car and more……provision for the ministry

Lord Willing, Pastor Ricky Gordon and I will be back in Reserve this Sunday! PTL!!!! Please pray for us!!

From Wikipedia:

A circuit preacher is a Christian minister who, in response to a shortage of ministers, officiates at multiple churches in an area, thus covering a “circuit”.

Circuit preaching became common during and between the Second Great Awakening and Third Great Awakening in the United States. The style was most common west of the Appalachian Mountains, where American settment pushed westward throughout the 19th century. In the early years of the U.S., many new churches did not yet have a permanent pastor or structure, and in response, the Methodist Episcopal Church, which had a polity allowing it to assign clergy without regard to what the individual minister might desire, assigned ministers to rural and frontier “circuits.” They became known as circuit riders.

With the increase in U.S. population and the rise of urban areas, most church members joined congregations that were large enough that they were not part of a circuit, but many small rural areas kept circuit preachers because it is more economical for churches to share a minister, and because one very small congregation does not provide enough “work” for a full-time minister. Circuit preaching is a way to provide “trained” (as opposed to “lay”) clergy for small congregations. Even in the 21st Century it is still common for small congregations of all denominations to share clergy, especially in rural areas of the U.S.

Leave a Reply

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.