Child preacher

In some branches of Christianity, especially American pentecostalism, children are occasionally preachers, or even ordained ministers.

The heyday of child preachers was in the 1920s and 1930s,[1] but a number of videos of modern-day child preachers can be seen on YouTube.

According to Randall Balmer, the appeal of having child preachers is in its novelty, making it "a kind of a carnival side-show".

[1] In 2012, when he was 11 years old, Ezekiel Stoddard was ordained as a minister in his family's non-denominational Fullness of Time Church, in Maryland.

[3] In 2011, National Geographic aired a documentary that featured a four-year-old preacher in the United Pentecostal Church International.