{"product_id":"history-today-john-pugh","title":"History Today: John Pugh","description":"\u003cp\u003eA challenging story of a young man, nurtured in a Christian home, soon drawn into a worldly life but then converted and called to the ministry of the Presbyterian Church of Wales. Ordained in 1872, John Pugh (1846–1907) held pastorates in Tredegar, Pontypridd and Cardiff.\u003c\/p\u003e \n\n\u003cp\u003eMany people were converted through his open-air and church preaching throughout Wales and beyond.\u003c\/p\u003e \n\n\u003cp\u003eFreed from pastoral duties, he gave himself fully to evangelism and church planting in the industrial areas of Wales where the spiritual and social needs of the people were desperate.\u003c\/p\u003e \n\n\u003cp\u003eHis remarkable success and burden for the work led to the formation of the Forward Movement within the PCW.\u003c\/p\u003e \n\n\u003cp\u003eHe established 48 mission halls \/ churches where there were many converts; Pugh also established a home for destitute women in Cardiff.\u003c\/p\u003e \n\n\u003cp\u003e‘He preached with one arm clinging around the Cross, and with the other outstretched to snatch souls from the wrath to come’.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"D. Eryl Davies","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44513026048212,"sku":"HTJP","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0611\/9351\/9316\/files\/10098480_LRG.jpg?v=1776269632","url":"https:\/\/etcevents.co.uk\/products\/history-today-john-pugh","provider":"ETCEvents","version":"1.0","type":"link"}