John wesley biography online for kids

John Wesley (; 28 June [O.S. 17 June] 1703  – 2 March 1791) was an Englishcleric, theologian, and evangelist who was a leader of a revival movement within the Church of England known as Methodism.

John wesley biography online for kids

The societies he founded became the dominant form of the independent Methodist movement that continues to this day.

Educated at Charterhouse and Christ Church, Oxford, Wesley was elected a fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford, in 1726 and ordained as an Anglican priest two years later.

At Oxford, he led the "Holy Club", a society formed for the purpose of the study and the pursuit of a devout Christian life; it had been founded by his brother Charles and counted George Whitefield among its members. After an unsuccessful ministry of two years, serving at Christ Church, in the Georgia colony of Savannah, he returned to London and joined a religious society led by Moravian Christians.

On 24 May 1738, he experienced what has come to be called his evangelical conve