George Whitefield, disagreeing with the Wesley brothers'…

George Whitefield, disagreeing with the Wesley brothers' views on the doctrine of the Atonement Arminianism while accepting the Church of England's doctrine of predestination, does what his friends hoped he would not do—hand over the entire ministry over to John Wesley.

Whitefield forms and is the president of the first Methodist conference, but he soon relinquishes the position to concentrate on evangelical work.

Three churches are established in England in his name: Bristol, and two churches in London: "Moorfields Tabernacle"; and "Tottenham Court Road Chapel".

The society meeting at the second Kingswood School at Kingswood, a town on the eastern edge of Bristol, wills eventually also be named Whitefield's Tabernacle.

Whitefield acts as chaplain to Selina, Countess of Huntingdon, and some of his followers join the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion, whose chapels are built by Selina, where a form of Calvinistic Methodism similar to Whitefield's is taught.

Many of Selina's chapels will be built in the English and Welsh counties, and one will be erected in London—Spa Fields Chapel., born at the Bell Inn, Southgate Street, Gloucester, in England, is the fifth son and seventh child of Thomas Whitefield and Elizabeth Edwards, who kept an inn at Gloucester.

Whitefield had found at an early age that he had a passion and talent for acting in the theater, a passion that he will carry on through the very theatrical reenactments of Bible stories that he will tell during his sermons.

Educated at the Crypt School, Gloucester, and Pembroke College, Oxford, Whitefield did not have the means to pay for his tuition, because he comes from a poor background.

He therefore had entered Oxford as a servitor, the lowest rank of students at Oxford.

In return for free tuition, he was assigned as a servant to a number of higher ranked students.

His duties included waking them in the morning, polishing their shoes, carrying their books and even assisting with required written assignments.

He was a part of the 'Holy Club' at Oxford University with the Wesley brothers, John and Charles.

An illness, as well as Henry Scougal's The Life of God in the Soul of Man, had influenced him to cry out to the Lord for salvation.

Following a religious conversion, he had become very passionate for preaching his newfound faith.

The Bishop of Gloucester had ordained him before the canonical age.

Whitefield had preached his first sermon in St. Mary de Crypt Church in his home town of Gloucester a week after his ordination.

He had earlier become the leader of the Holy Club at Oxford when the Wesley brothers departed for Georgia.

He had adopted the practice of Howell Harris of preaching in the open-air at Hanham Mount, near Kingswood, Bristol.

Before becoming parish priest of Savannah, Georgia, in the American colonies, he had in 1738 invited John Wesley to preach in the open-air for the first time at Kingswood and then Blackheath, London.

After a short stay in Georgia, he had returned home the following year to receive priest's orders and resumed his open-air evangelistic activities.

He also works to raise funds to establish the Bethesda Orphanage, which is the oldest extant charity in North America.