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Eliza
Asbury lived between Birmingham and the Black Country during the ferment
of the vast eighteenth century industrial revolution that was to transform
the world. She had a difficult marriage, lost a beloved daughter in infancy
and lived in a community at Great Barr where hostility to her Methodist
faith was never far from the surface.
Nevertheless for over fifty years her little cottage was a regular place
of worship and her only son Frank was to go to America to become Bishop
Francis Asbury, the first Protestant Bishop in North America.
This book tells the inspiring story through Eliza's eyes, uncoupling many
of the myths that have grown up about the Asbury family. Using original
sources it charts the frustrating thirty year correspondence between mother
and son, when letters sometimes took a year to arrive at the intended
destination.
David Hallam is a Methodist Local Preacher and lives in Smethwick, which
like Great Barr is part of the Black Country Borough of Sandwell. He is
a former Member of the European Parliament where he represented Shropshire,
Herefordshire and parts of Worcestershire. During his five year term David
was President of the Parliament's Prayer Breakfast. David is a public
relations consultant. |
