John Samuel Stamm (1878–1956[1]) was an American bishop of the Evangelical Church, elected in 1926.
The Stamms were devout Christians and members of the Evangelical Association Church in Alida,[2] Geary County, Kansas, which they had helped organize seven years before.
At the age of ten, John became so disturbed by a sermon he heard one Sunday morning that he went to a hillside after church to pray.
Sitting with several other teenage boys one night when the preacher gave the invitation to come to the altar, John turned to his friends and said, "If I go, will you go?"
"That night I found Jesus Christ as my personal Savior," Bishop Stamm later wrote.
Instead of doubting God, I now loved Him...things of the spirit had new interest and challenge for me...the call of the Christian ministry came to me with clear and convincing urgency."
He was a member of the 1948 organizing Assembly of the World Council of Churches, serving on its Central Committee until 1954.