circuit preachers
Roving rural clergy
Circuit preachers are ministers who travel a regular route to serve multiple congregations, typically in rural areas where communities are too small or poor to support a full-time pastor.
The practice was central to Methodist expansion in frontier America, with preachers on horseback covering vast territories.
The circuit preacher came through every six weeks.
The term evokes an era of sparse settlement and itinerant ministry.
- itinerantMoving for work
- revivalReturn after decline
- frontierEdge of settlement
- MethodistProtestant denomination member
- horsebackAtop a steed
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