Religious Leaders-All the way!!!!!

[Thalia H.]

The Great Awakening began when George Whitefield, a preacher from England, came to America to take note of the colonists' ideas, to see if they were different from his own. Whitefield began a preaching tour down the American East Coast, starting in Philadelphia and ending in Georgia. He attracted up to 30,000 people to his sermons—sometimes the areas would be so full that remaining people would be turned away. One of those spectators was Benjamin Franklin, who noted that he spoke so perfectly in a” loud and clear voice”--which would set the style for many preachers to come. On March 25, 1740, Whitefield began work on the Bethesda House, a vocational school for orphans. Today, this would be known as mission work.



These are just one of many contributions of religious leaders.