# Christopher Mends

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**Christopher Mends** (22 February 1724 or 1725 – 5 April 1799) was a [Methodist](/source/Methodism) [exhorter](/source/Exhortation) and later an independent minister.[1]

## Biography

Mends' birth is of uncertain origin: he was born either at the Cotts near [Hasguard](/source/Hasguard), [Pembrokeshire](/source/Pembrokeshire),[1] or at [Haverfordwest](/source/Haverfordwest),[2] on 22 February 1724 or 1725, one of nine children[1] of a cloth merchant.[1][2]

By 1741, Mends worked as a [fuller](/source/Fulling) with his brother, William, at [Laugharne](/source/Laugharne).[1] After hearing [George Whitefield](/source/George_Whitefield)'s preachings, the brothers became [exhorters](/source/Export).[1][2] In January 1745, Mends was appointed to exhort in East Walton and Studder.[2] Mends studied at [Carmarthen Academy](/source/Carmarthen_Academy) under independent minister Evan Davies for some of his training.[1][2]

By September 1748,[2] the brothers had established a meeting house in Laugharne,[1][2] which was registered as a [dissenting](/source/Nonconformist_(Protestantism)) meeting house by January 1750. Mends was ordained as a Congregationalist in [Brinkworth](/source/Brinkworth,_Wiltshire), [Wiltshire](/source/Wiltshire).[2] In 1761, he moved to [Plymouth](/source/Plymouth), where he died on 5 April 1799.[1]

## References

1. Jenkins, Robert Thomas (1942). ["MENDS, CHRISTOPHER (1724? - 1799). Methodist exhorter, afterwards Independent minister"](https://biography.wales/article/s-MEND-CHR-1724). *Dictionary of Welsh Biography*. Retrieved 1 March 2024.

1. White, Eryn M. (2020-06-15). [*The Welsh Methodist Society: The Early Societies in South-west Wales 1737-1750*](https://books.google.com/books?id=uX74DwAAQBAJ&dq=%22Christopher+Mends%22+%22hasguard%22&pg=PT94). [University of Wales Press](/source/University_of_Wales_Press). pp. 94–95. ISBN 978-1-78683-581-9.

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