In this vlog, Jonathan and Dan are filming about the Beddgelert Revival of 1817. We begin in Beddgelert itself; for the first shot, we climbed up one of the foothills of the mountains to film. Sadly, Beddgelert Calvinistic Methodist Church has long been demolished and is now just a garden area in front of some houses. Happily, Pete Campbell, minister of Capel Fron, several miles away in Penrhyndeudraeth, kindly offered to bring some lunch to us when he heard we'd be filming in the area. It was excellent food. I think he should start a side-business: 'Campbell's Catering'. He also speaks in the vlog about his experience of ministering in this very rural area and its spiritual state.
We then drove a few miles east to Hafod y Llan farmhouse, which was full of sheep ready to be sheared, and plenty of cars belonging to people staying in the campsite behind the house, but we managed to get the shots we needed. Unfortunately, we were unable to enter the house because guests were holidaying there, but I managed to return on my own on another day to film inside, and those are the interior shots you see in the vlog. Hafod y Llan Farm was where the revival began in the Beddgelert area. An unknown preacher called Richard Williams stood in the kitchen to preach, and within 15 minutes the Spirit came down. Over the coming weeks and months, ordinary preachers would have supernatural power, sometimes unable to finish their sermon because of the sound of repentance and rejoicing. One of the hallmarks of this revival was that there were no main leaders. It was just local men preaching the gospel.
We finished the day in Capel y Nant, over on the Llyn Peninsula, where the revival began in 1816. A group of children started praying in the church loft. In one church service, a girl broke out in tears and praise, and over the next couple of weeks, God started saving both young and old. An elder from the church in Beddgelert heard about it and urged his own church members to pray for a similar outpouring of the Spirit. To our disappointment, the church building in Capel y Nant was covered in scaffolding, and the neighbours informed us it had only been put up a few weeks before. The building was being sold off and had already been gutted inside, the furnishings and pews ripped out, and it was now just a shell. Jonathan rightly pointed out, though, that the state of the building was more accurately representative of the spiritual state of Wales today. There weren't any decent filming vantage points, however the neighbours were very kind and hospitable and allowed us to film from their backyard decking.
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