Edwin Mendenhall: Your Missionary to Wayne County, Pennsylvania

A man of strong evangelical faith, Edwin Mendenhall surrendered to a religious calling and enthusiastically told his bishop, “I am your missionary to Wayne County!” In 1844, he uprooted his family and embarked on a journey to the remote northeastern corner of Pennsylvania, an area he believed was a “spiritual fi eld ready for harvest.” Almost forgotten, Mendenhall’s story is about a man’s singular mission to share a timeless message of hope. For that cause, he would devote his life, saying, “How thankful I feel that I have preached full and free salvation . . . in Christ Jesus.”