Francis Asbury

For the next 32 years Asbury led all the Methodists in America. For another hour while he was an infant Francis Asbury would sing him hymns and pray over him. Asbury became a local lay preacher for Methodist meetings at age 18.

Bishop Asbury's tireless leadership helped spread Methodism in America. As a young man in October 1771 English-born Francis Asbury traveled to America and during his 45-year ministry in America he devoted his life to ministry traveling on horseback or by carriage thousands of miles to faithfully deliver sermons to those living on the frontier.