Willard cantelon biography definition

He was saved at the age of twelve.

By the time he was seventeen he was composing and performing his own songs and began preaching by the time he graduated college at the age of twenty-two.

He was ordained into the ministry on April 28, 1939.

Stanphill served several churches and was known as a singing evangelist, singing and preaching all over the United States and the world.

He is known to have preached in at least forty countries.

Willard cantelon biography definition

At his services, he would ask the congregation to submit suggested titles for a song. He admitted that the results could be good, bad, or indifferent. Some of these songs were only sung that one time.

One ad for a crusade Stanphill held in 1964 described him as an “Preacher of Old Time Religion.”

Legend says that one morning when he was preaching in Kansas City, Missouri in 1946 he was thumbing through the suggested song titles and came across the words Room at the Cross for You