John Winebrenner
Deceased Person
1797 – 1860
Who was John Winebrenner?
John Winebrenner, founded the Churches of God General Conference.
He studied at Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and was ordained in the German Reformed Church in 1820. He pastored at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, where his revival preaching and his Revival Hymn-Book brought about a break between his followers and the Reformed Church.
His Christian testimony can be found in the book The Testimony of a Hundred Witnesses edited by John Frederick Weishampel. In 1830, he and five other ministers founded the Church of God He served as speaker at the first eldership and subsequently edited and published the Church of God paper, first called The Gospel Publisher
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- Born
- Mar 25, 1797
Maryland - Education
- Dickinson College
- Died
- Sep 12, 1860
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on July 23, 2013
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