Seventeen Souls in a Welsh Chapel
In the autumn of 1904, twenty-six-year-old Evan Roberts was just a coal miner from Loughor, Wales, with no theological degree and no platform. He had...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Luke 5:1-11.
In the autumn of 1904, twenty-six-year-old Evan Roberts was just a coal miner from Loughor, Wales, with no theological degree and no platform. He had spent thirteen years praying for revival — thirteen years of casting nets into seemingly empty waters. At a conference in Blaenannerch, evangelist Seth Joshua prayed aloud, "Lord, bend us." Roberts felt something break open inside him.…
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