Sonoma Creek flows down the valley to the bay. The area includes the incorporated city of Sonoma and part of the City of Santa Rosa, as well as numerous unincorporated communities, including Kenwood and Glen Ellen near Santa Rosa and, near Sonoma, El Verano, Boyes Hot Springs, Fetters Hot Springs, and Agua Caliente.
These camp meetings quickly became a popular and important feature of the Second Great Awakening. Charles Grandison Finney Other than the creator of the camp meeting, one of the prominent leaders of this movement was the preacher Charles Grandison Finney. Finney, a lawyer turned preacher, was undoubtedly the most influential leader of the awakening. He was an incredibly eloquent speaker as well as a skilled writer, likely due to his years as an attorney. Finney was also a leader for allowing women to lead prayer, while also being a strong supporter of abolition.
No words can express the wonderful love that was spread abroad in my heart.â 1. Thus began the ministry of Charles Grandison Finney (1792â1875), one of the most prominent and influential evangelists in American history. Finneyâs ministry was the high-water mark of the Second Great Awakening (roughly 1792â1835).His was a time of rapid westward expansion and unparalleled population growth.ltimately, the New Haven theology, popularized by Finney, produced a split. In 1838, the Presbyterians divided into the Old School and the New School. The former represented the theological tradition that had descended from the Reformation through the Puritans. The latter embodied the new divinity of Taylor and Finney.