Wayne Schmidt's Wesleyan Ordination Succession

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When Wesleyan General Superintendent, Wayne Schmidt, officiates ordination services, he is continuing a long, historic line of ministerial calling/leadership as the mantle is passed to the next generation.

Wayne Schmidt was ordained by O. D. Emery (Wesleyan Church)

O. D. Emery ordained by Louis Willard Sturk (Pilgrim Holiness).

Louis Willard (L. W.) Sturk ordained by George B. Kulp  (Pilgrim Holiness)

George Kulp was ordained by Stephen Merrill (Methodist Episcopal)

Stephen Merrill was ordained by Thomas Asbury Morris (Methodist Episcopal)

Thomas Asbury Morris was ordained by Robert Richford Roberts (Methodist Episcopal)

Robert Richford Roberts was ordained by the renowned circuit riding evangelist, Francis Asbury (Methodist)

Francis Asbury was ordained by Thomas Coke (Methodist)

Thomas Coke was ordained by  a renegade priest named John Wesley (Anglican)

John Wesley was ordained by John Potter, Bishop of Oxford (Anglican).


From Potter -- there's a trail all the way back to St. Peter!  (You can see the Anglican list here.) (Potter is #163)

And the Word marches on -- proclaimed from one generation to another!

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