List of campus preachers
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Many American universities and colleges experience regular visits from itinerant campus preachers who typically occupy a prominent on-campus location for a day or two before moving on to another school. These campus preachers are often outspoken, with extreme viewpoints and overblown rhetorical styles. Many (but certainly not all) of these campus preachers use a distinctive preaching style, known as "confrontational evangelism." This is a highly controversial approach to spreading the gospel by which the preacher focuses on the perceived "sins" of the audience in the hope that calling them out will bring them to repentance and salvation. This approach typically provokes hostile reactions from the student bodies of the schools they visit.
[edit] Preacher and locations
- Armstrong, Micah - ("Brother Micah") - based in the Tampa, Florida area and self-proclaimed member of the Pentecostal movement. Travels throughout the Southeastern United States to campuses such as University of Alabama, University of Florida, and the University of Georgia.
- Birdsong, Gary - NCSU, UNC Chapel Hill, East Carolina, UNC Charlotte, etc.[1]
- Gilles, James ("Brother Jim") - primarily schools in Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, and surrounding area
- Short, Tom - national ministry, sponsored by Great Commission Association, based out of Columbus, OH.
- Smock, George E. ("Brother Jed") - UF, ISU, MU, UCLA, A&M, UIUC, OSU, KU, UNL, based out of Columbia, Missouri
- Woroniecki, Michael & Rachel -no permanent base or sponsorship by organized religion. Depends on donations sent through mail from converts, sympathetic observers and income from their six now adult children.[2] Preaches mostly at campuses throughout the contiguous United States. Other preaching destinations have included Canada, Hawaii, Europe, Morocco, Central and South America. Traveling itinerary is often undisclosed.
- Brother Rick - independent Pentecostal campus preacher, primarily in Kentucky, Ohio, Michigan[3]
[edit] References
- ^ [1] 'You're going to hell' say campus preachers - News, Josh Lanier, nineronline campus newspaper, 3/27/07
- ^ Income from children sourced from the following two documents: Article, Christina Tkacik, Cavalier Daily, Univ. of Virginia, Sep. 27, 2005; Tract, Sarah Woroniecki, Perilous Times Newsletter, 1999
- ^ 'Brother Rick' inflames crowd with fiery rhetoric - News
