George Whitefield (1714-1770) was an English evangelist who helped spread the Great Awakening in Britain and America. He had a conversion experience where he realized one must be "born again" to be Christian. He was ordained and began preaching, attracting thousands to his revivals in England, America, and Scotland. His preaching brought many people to faith in Christ. At his funeral, John Wesley praised Whitefield for spreading the gospel more widely than any person since the apostles and bringing many sinners to faith in God.

1. GEORGE WHITEFIELD
1714 – 1770
The greatest English-speaking
evangelist and the winner
of thousands of souls.

2. GROWING UP IN
THE BELL INN
GLOUCESTER

3. OXFORD

4. CONVERSION
“God showed me that I must be
born again, or be damned! I learned
that a man may go to church, say his
prayers, receive the sacrament, and
yet not be a Christian”

5. ORDINATION
“…I have heard that a
complaint has been made
to the Bishop that I drove
15 mad the first sermon”

6. SAVANNAH

7. THE KINGSWOOD
COLLIERY
“The first discovery
their being affected
was to see the white
gutters made by
their tears which
plentifully fell down
their black cheeks,
as they came out of
their coal pits”

8. JOHN
WESLEY

9. KENNINGTON COMMON
LONDON
Here were vicious sports
and drunken brawlings.
Here the harlot and
pick-pocket sought
victims of their trades,
and here the mob
assembled, ready for
any act of violence.
Here humanity, gathered
– men, women and
children – unwashed
and ignorant, wicked
and diseased, a vast host
of whom it might be said
‘no man cared for their
souls’.

10. AMERICA
SIX VOYAGES
ORPHANAGE

11. BROTHERS DIVIDED A TALE OF TWO SCHOOLS

12. SCOTLAND
CAMBUSLANG
“During the time of
divine worship, solemn,
profound reverence
overspread every
countenance. They hear
as for eternity
…thousands are melted
into tears….”

13. WALES
• GRIFFITH JONES
• DANIEL ROWLANDS
• HOWELL HARRIS
• CALVINISTIC
METHODISTS

14. THE
TABERNACLE
MOORFIELDS

15. LAST SERMON
“I go to a rest prepared; my sun
has arisen., and by aid from
Heaven has given light to many. It
is now about to set – no, it is
about to rise to the zenith of
immortal glory. Many may outlive
me on earth but they cannot
outlive me in Heaven.
Oh, thought divine! I shall soon be
in a world where time, age, pain,
and sorrow are unknown. My
body fails, my spirit expands. How
willingly would I live to preach
Christ! But I die to be with Him.”

16. DEATH AND BURIAL
His good friend Rev
Jonathan Parsons of
Newport
Massachusetts

17. JOHN WESLEY’S PREACHNG AT THE LONDON
FUNERAL SERVICE FOR GEORGE WHITEFIELD
“Have we read or heard of any person since the
apostles who testified to the gospel of the grace
of God so through so widely extended a space,
through so large a part of the habitable world?
“Above all, Have we read or heard of any who has
been a blessed instrument in the hands of God of
bringing so many sinners from darkness to light
and from the power of Satan unto God?”