What community-support focused branch of Christianity grew from the work of brothers John and Charles Wesley and George Whitefield?
George Whitefield George Whitefield George Whitefield (; 30 September 1770), also spelled Whitfield, was an English Anglican cleric and evangelist who was one of the founders of Methodism and the evangelical movement. Born in Gloucester, he matriculated at Pembroke College at the University of Oxford in 1732. There he joined the "Holy Club" and was introduced to the Wesley brothers, John and Charles, with whom he would work closely in his later ministry. Whitefield was ordained after receiving his Bachelor of Arts degree. He immediately began preaching, but he did not settle as the minister of any parish. Rather he became an
George Whitefield he acted as a servant to Fellows and Fellow-commoners, duties including teaching them in the morning, helping them bathe, cleaning their rooms, carrying their books and assisting them with work. He was a part of the "Holy Club" at the 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", influenced him to turn to the Church. Following a religious conversion, he became passionate for preaching his new-found faith. The Bishop of Gloucester ordained him a deacon. Whitefield preached his first sermon at St Mary de