'Welsh Awakenings' Production Vlog 11: Ammanford (17 June 2022)

Jonathan and Dan are filming at Bethany Chapel in Ammanford, and this time it's personal. Jonathan grew up in Brynamman, 6 miles to the east, and in later life pastored Ammanford Evangelical Church for 13 years. My father grew up in Ammanford, and Bethany Presbyterian Church was his home church. As a child, my family and I stayed at my grandparents in Ammanford a few times every year, attending Bethany on Sundays during those visits. My grandfather, Eifion Pugh, was an elder at the church.
Bethany Church was one of the epicentres of the 1904 Revival. Nantlais Williams (1874-1959) was the minister at the time, and was converted during the revival, even though he was already an ordained minister. Church meetings were packed, with crowds having to gather outside to listen through open windows, and the meetings went on into the early hours of the morning. Nantlais played a prominent role in the revival, and in later years would be a frontline opponent of liberal theology as it tightened its grip on the Welsh Methodist Church after the First World War.
We also speak to Gaynor Jones, a longstanding member of the chapel, who shows us some of the photographs in the church hall. I play the church organ for the first time, and we take a tour around the town and some of our personal history.
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