Emphasis Preaching Journal

James Edwin Orr was born on January 15, 1912, in Belfast, Ireland. His birth date seemed to constantly reoccur in his life, for on that date he was converted to Christianity under the influence of his mother, was married, was ordained into the Baptist church, and became a chaplain in the U.S. Air Force during World War II. But what is more significant than the date of January 15 is that Orr traveled the globe as an evangelist. It would be easier to list the countries that he did not hold revivals in than to recount all of those countries that he did.