Ministry
Houghton took his first pastorate at the First Baptist Church of Canton, Pennsylvania in 1915. After two years, Houghton left to pursue evangelistic work throughout New York and Pennsylvania. After a series of revivalistic meetings at a Baptist church in New Bethlehem, Pennsylvania in the spring of 1918, he accepted their offer of the pastorate and stayed until he took a new pastorate at the First Baptist Church of Norristown, Pennsylvania in the fall of 1920. Houghton then pastored at the First Baptist Tabernacle of Atlanta from 1925 to 1928 and the Calvary Baptist Church in New York City, the headquarters of the New York Youth Christian Center, from 1930 to 1934. In 1932 he founded the New York Summer School of Theology.
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