Food trucks, like early Methodists, don’t mind creeping on your establishment and stealing your customers.

School drop-out and immigrant with a British-accent, Bishop Francis Asbury spent 45 years on the unpaved trails of America spreading the Gospel of grace far and wide.  His illiterate traveling companion and never-ordained fellow preacher, Harry Hosier, was considered “the greatest orator in America” (Benjamin Rush).  Hosier was a liberated slave, and Asbury an incredibly vocal opponent of slavery.

Neither were men of means, owning only the horses they traveled upon, the clothes on their back, a what fit in the satchel.  They were not so interested in the brick-and-mortar establishment of church buildings as they were traveling anywhere no church existed, preaching to the low-country Americans, establishing Methodist congregations in every home and town they could move to.

Asbury’s zealous preaching, tireless movement and organizational giftedness established Methodism as an American denomination after the birth of the country.