ALEXANDRIA, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – A more than two-hundred-year-old tale about a circuit-riding preacher named John Shrock proves that some Americans in the Red River Valley during the early 1800s had the ...

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 ...

BRISTOL, Va. – For seven years, Keith McGrew has led the Sunday services at three different Methodist churches every week. But Sunday, the pastor of Mary’s Chapel, Booher’s Chapel and Campground ...