Jonathan and Dan's first stop in this vlog is a very significant building in the history of the Welsh church: Plas Watford, just outside Caerphilly in South-East Wales. This was where the great English preacher of the 18th century, George Whitefield, met with Daniel Rowland, Howell Harris, William Williams and others, in the early 1740s, to form the Methodist Association. We'd assumed it would just be a field, but before filming day I discovered the building was still standing, looking as fine and 'ye olde' as can be on the outside, but surely not on the inside... However, when I knocked on the door to ask for filming permission outside, the owners invited us inside, and we found to our astonishment the original meeting room, with 18th century furnishings! The owners, Ed & Lowri Erin, were restoring the building to its original medieval glory. Lowri had even attended the same Welsh-language high school as me (and my mother and siblings) in Mold, North-East Wales.
We then headed 10 miles south, over Caerphilly Mountain, to Cardiff, Wales' capital city, and to the spot where Seth Joshua (1858-1925), of the Forward Movement, prayed in 1904, "Please God, give me Wales," and not long after that the 1904 Revival would be in full flow. While in Cardiff I interviewed Dr. Eryl Davies in Heath Church, a Forward Movement church plant in the early 1900s which has know great blessing in the 20th century. I also interviewed Prof. E. Wyn James, church historian and emeritus professor of Welsh at Cardiff University. The filming location was Crwys Presbyterian Church, where there are two beautiful stain-glass windows (seen behind Wyn) of the two greatest Welsh hymn writers: William Williams and Ann Griffiths.
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