Background
Kress, Christian Adam was born on October 20, 1879 in New York City. Son of Casper and Elise (Meyer) Kress.
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Christian Adam Kress
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Education
Graduate Master of Arts Chesbrough Seminary (now Roberts Wesleyan College), North Chili, New York, 1900. Student Temple University, 1908-1909, Biblical Seminary, New York City, 1917, Drew Theological Seminary, 1922-1923. Bachelor of Philosophy, Kansas City University, 1911.
Th.B., Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1927, Bachelor of Divinity, 1928.
Career
Ordained to Free Methodist Ministry, 1906. Pastor in Alexandria, Virginia, Philadelphia, Allentown, Newark, Brooklyn. District superintendent Wilkes Barre District, 1912-1916, New York and Windsor districts, 1933-1937, New York and New England districts, 1940-1944, Wilkes Barre District, 1944-1948.
Instructor Latin and homiletics, Chesbrough Seminary, 1918-1919.
Secretary New York Annual Conference of Free Methodist Church of North.A., 1912-1919, 26-47. President Board of Examiners Conference, a course of study for ministerial candidates, since 1939.
Member General Conference commission on revision of ministerial course of study, chairman, 1943. Member Commision on Christian Education, 1943-1947.
Secretary general Conference, also Board of Administration, 1947-1951.
Member editorial committee Free Methodist Discipline. Member of advisory council American Bible Society, since 1935. Chairman Interdenominational Holiness Association Brooklyn, since 1942.
Achievements
Membership
Member Prohibition Party.
Connections
Married Jessie Laura Thompson, June 16, 1903. Children: Mildred Pauline (Mistress Orland M. Conklin), Miriam Ruth (Mistress George West. Crump).
