155 YEARS AGO TODAY: LETTIE BURD COWMAN was born in Afton, Iowa in 1870. At 13 years of age, she met her future husband, Charles
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Praying for Revival: Early Pentecostals and New Year’s Eve Watchnight Services
Early Pentecostals generally viewed the observance of the “church calendar” as remnants of liturgical traditions. Apart from Easter and Christmas, there were few days that
Review of Tommy Welchel’s “They Told Me Their Stories: Children and Youth of Azusa”
“THE MYTHOLOGIZING OF PENTECOSTAL HISTORY”; A CRITICAL LOOK AT TOMMY WELCHEL’S “THEY TOLD ME THEIR STORIES” Ruthie Edgerly Oberg Flower Pentecostal Heritage Center Presented at
H. Noble Alexander – When 5 Minutes Turns into 22 years
H. Noble Alexander (1934–2002) was a Seventh Day Adventist leader in Cuba. During Fidel’s Castro’s revolution, arrests of political opponents and Christians were common. Noble
An English Writer, a Publication in Need, and a Pentecostal Passion: Stanley Frodsham
Stanley Howard Frodsham (1882-1969) was a writer, editor, and teacher during the formative years of the Pentecostal movement and the Assemblies of God. As editor of the Pentecostal Evangel for nearly 30 years, Frodsham stands as one of the most influential figures of 20th-century Pentecostalism.
How post WW2 youth groups proved skeptical leadership wrong with the creation of STL…
“Never mind, it will soon blow over.” These skeptical words greeted the enthusiasm of Christ’s Ambassadors (CA) Director Ralph Harris when he recounted that Assemblies
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