Well, welcome back to another episode of Five Minutes in Church History. On this episode, we are live

from the Ligonear National Conference, and I have my good friend, Dr. Derek Thomas, and hopefully

you know this by now, but while he is in these United States,

he's Welsh.

And I thought it would be wonderful to hear from him what we must know about the Welsh revival.

So Dr. Thomas, good to have you.

It's a great honor to be in your presence once again, Dr. Nichols.

We're here to have you talk about the Welsh Revival, so if you could tell us what we need to know about the Welsh Revivals.

This is a revival that took place in 2004, and it spread into 1905 in Wales.

It began with a Methodist preacher by the name of Joseph Jenkins

in a coastal town off the Irish Sea called Newkey,

small little seaside town where he and some others he was preaching and something

happened in the preaching. The congregation began to be greatly affected. It had emotional aspects

to it and it spread. It spread to a man by the name of Evan Roberts.

And if I remember, was he in seminary at this time? He was a young man. He was doing a three-month

course in seminary in Swansea, I think it was, down in South Wales.

And he'd heard about what had happened in New Key.

And the problem with Evan Roberts was that there were other things like visions.

And there was a ministry of several women that accompanied him on these revivals.

But you can go to any town or village, the village that I grew up in, for example, had five

churches in it, and there was a population of probably less than 2000.

And these were large churches built in 1904.

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