In 1939 Orr enrolled at Northwest University. The Orrs evangelised in Australia (1939), China, Canada and the United States of America. On 15 January 1937 he married Ivy Muriel Carol Carlson they would have four children. During these years he also wrote several accounts of his tours of preaching. In 1930 or 1931, after spending some years as a baker, Orr began evangelising, not only in Britain but also elsewhere in Europe, as well as North America, Australia and South Africa. He studied at the College of Technology, Belfast. He was one of the five children of William Stewart Orr and Rose Orr (nee Wright). James Edwin Orr was born on 15 January 1912 in Belfast in Ireland (present-day Northern Ireland), of American-British parentage. James Edwin Orr (Janu– April 22, 1987) was a Baptist Christian minister, hymnwriter, professor, author and promoter of church revival and renewal. Northern Ireland-born minister and author
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