Stephen F. Olford [SEP] date of death
Stephen F. Olford
Stephen F. Olford (March 29, 1918 – August 29, 2004) was a 20th-century Christian leader.
Dr. Billy Graham called him "the man who most influenced my ministry."
He was a personal confidant of Graham. Olford was also a role model and friend to prominent pastors such as Charles Stanley and Adrian Rogers, as well as being influential in the life of Jim Elliot. He was a pioneer in Christian television programming with his show, "Encounter", in New
He launched a Young Peoples Christian fellowship in Newport, South Wales. After the war, Olford was involved in extensive ministry throughout the U.K. and overseas.
In 1953, Dr. Stephen F. Olford's years of pastoral ministry began by serving the Duke Street Baptist Church in Richmond, Surrey England (1953–1959) and then the Calvary Baptist Church in New York City (1959–1973).
Olford systematized his method of expository preaching and formed a curriculum used to train preachers at the Olford Institute for Biblical Preaching in Memphis, Tennessee.