He arrives to find the Wesley brothers gone, and their mission foundation in shambles. Without thinking twice, Whitefield bean to piece it back together. It didn’t take him long to realize the city of Savannah was in need of an orphanage. Although the Charles Wesley had previously considered the idea of an orphanage, it had never come into fruition. Whitefield decided to make the orphanage a central part of his ministry. Soon Whitefield met Johann Martin Bolzius, a Salzburg Lutheran disciple who had founded and orphanage in Ebenezer, Georgia. This was an orphanage of seventeen children, and one widow. Whitefield worked to match the two orphanages, as he believed that great temporal and spiritual blessings were happening in Georgia. Whitefield would pour his heart and soul into this ministry, but he would not stay in Georgia for long. He would establish the Bethseda orphanage in Georgia and return to England to raise money for the project by traveling the British Atlantic
He arrives to find the Wesley brothers gone, and their mission foundation in shambles. Without thinking twice, Whitefield bean to piece it back together. It didn’t take him long to realize the city of Savannah was in need of an orphanage. Although the Charles Wesley had previously considered the idea of an orphanage, it had never come into fruition. Whitefield decided to make the orphanage a central part of his ministry. Soon Whitefield met Johann Martin Bolzius, a Salzburg Lutheran disciple who had founded and orphanage in Ebenezer, Georgia. This was an orphanage of seventeen children, and one widow. Whitefield worked to match the two orphanages, as he believed that great temporal and spiritual blessings were happening in Georgia. Whitefield would pour his heart and soul into this ministry, but he would not stay in Georgia for long. He would establish the Bethseda orphanage in Georgia and return to England to raise money for the project by traveling the British Atlantic