John Winebrenner


John Winebrenner, founded the Churches of God General Conference.

Life

Winebrenner was born in Walkersville, Maryland. He studied at Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and was ordained in the German Reformed Church in 1820. He pastored at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, where his revival preaching and his Revival Hymn-Book brought about a break between his followers and the Reformed Church.
His Christian testimony can be found in the book The Testimony of a Hundred Witnesses edited by John Frederick Weishampel. In 1830, he and five other ministers founded the Church of God He served as speaker at the first eldership and subsequently edited and published the Church of God paper, first called The Gospel Publisher.
He died in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and was interred at the Harrisburg Cemetery.