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Mexican Refugees Poured into Texas 100 Years Ago. How Did the Assemblies of...
H. C. Ball (front center) with ministers at the 32nd annual Latin American District Council meeting in Los Angeles, California, November 1-3, 1948. This Week in AG History — May 27, 1916 By Darrin...
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What can Pentecostals learn from John Wesley?
This Week in AG History — June 3, 1944 By Darrin Rodgers Originally published on PE-News, 2 June 2016 What can Pentecostals learn from John Wesley (1703-91), the founder of Methodism? Wesley, an...
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What Did Early Pentecostals Teach about the Theology of Work?
D.W.Kerr (back row, center) with a group of Assemblies of God executive presbyters, 1919. This Week in AG History — June 11, 1921 By Darrin Rodgers Originally published on PE-News, 9 June 2016 What did...
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Hermano Pablo: Assemblies of God Media Pioneer in Latin America
This Week in AG History — June 16, 1963 By Ruthie Edgerly Oberg Originally published on PE-News, 16 June 2016 Growing up as an Assemblies of God missionary kid in Puerto Rico in the 1920s and 1930s,...
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Nazi Rocket Scientist Wernher von Braun Converted to Christ, Interviewed by...
C. M. Ward interviews Dr. Wernher von Braun (center) in his office at the Space Center headquarters in Huntsville, Alabama, May 9, 1966. Lee Shultz (right) looks on. This Week in AG History — June 26,...
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Assemblies of God 2015 Statistics Released, Growth Spurred by Ethnic...
The Assemblies of God is one of the few major denominations in the United States to show continuing growth. But the real story is the ethnic transformation of the Assemblies of God. It is becoming...
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Nationalism and the Heavenly Kingdom: How Pentecostals Responded to World War I
A French couple welcome liberating American soldiers in 1918, after four years of German occupation. This Week in AG History — July 1, 1916 By Darrin Rodgers Originally published on PE-News, 1 July...
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Reaching Remotest Alaska: Byron and Marjory Personeus and the Gospel Boat
Byron and Marjory Personeus on board the Fair-Tide II, 1945 This Week in AG History — July 7, 1945 By Glenn Gohr Originally published on PE-News, 7 July 2016 Byron and Marjory Personeus, Assemblies of...
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Mabel Dean: An Unexpected Pioneer of the Assemblies of God in Egypt
This Week in AG History — July 16, 1961 By Ruthie Edgerly Oberg Originally published on PE-News, 14 July 2016 When Mabel Dean (1884-1961) sensed God’s call to be a missionary to Africa, she was 40...
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William W. Hays: From Addiction and Crime to Assemblies of God Prison Chaplain
This Week in AG History — July 22, 1962 By Darrin J. Rodgers Originally published on PE-News, 21 July 2016 William W. Hays (1927-2010) came from a family known for drunkenness and crime, and he lived...
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Alexander C. Stewart Deposits Important African-American Pentecostal...
Chief Apostle William L. Bonner (left), Chief Apostle of the Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ of the Apostolic Faith, Inc., with Alexander C. and Shirlene Stewart on their wedding day, June 22, 1985, at...
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Did Early Pentecostalism Have Roots in German and Scandinavian Pietism?
American Pentecostal historians have often focused on the movement’s origins in various Anglo segments of evangelicalism. Vinson Synan is known for tracing Pentecostal roots to the...
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How Should Christians Respond to Cultural Chaos? Read Myer Pearlman’s 1932...
Myer Pearlman (1898-1943), Assemblies of God theologian This Week in AG History — July 30, 1932 By Darrin J. Rodgers Originally published on PE-News, 28 July 2016 The year was 1932. The world’s...
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Gustav Schmidt Describes the Horror of Soviet Persecution of Pentecostals in...
Assemblies of God missionary Ivan Voronaev (center) meets with new leaders of the Union on Christians of Evangelical Faith in Odessa, Ukraine (September 1926). Voronaev and countless other Slavic...
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A 1969 Warning Against Prayerless Pentecostalism
Prayer service at the 1953 annual convention of the Japan Assemblies of God. This Week in AG History — August 10, 1969 By Darrin J. Rodgers Originally published on PE-News, 11 August 2016 “Prayer and...
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Hattie Hammond: Calling Christians to a Deeper Walk with God
This Week in AG History — August 18, 1928 By Glenn Gohr Originally published on PE-News, 18 August 2016 Hattie Hammond (1907-1994) was one of the premier preachers of the early Pentecostal-holiness...
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The Evolution of Holiness in the Church of God in Christ: Summit to be Held...
Bishop Charles H. Mason was incarcerated in 1918 in the jail cell in the Holmes County Courthouse, Lexington, Mississippi. He was falsely accused of treason by those opposed to his Holiness message....
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Stephen Jeffreys: A Welsh Evangelist Brings Revival to Springfield, Missouri
This Week in AG History — August 25, 1928 By Ruthie Edgerly Oberg Originally published on PE-News, 25 August 2016 Stephen Jeffreys (1876-1943) was considered by many to be the greatest British...
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Dr. Alexander Vazakas: Early Greek Pentecostal, Philosopher, Linguist
This Week in AG History — September 2, 1962 By Darrin J. Rodgers Originally published on PE-News, 1 September 2016 Alexander Vazakas (1873-1965) began life in the Ottoman Empire, where his family...
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Amidst Increasing Worldliness in 1951, Steelberg Challenged the Assemblies of...
This Week in AG History — September 9, 1951 By Ruthie Edgerly Oberg Originally published on PE-News, 8 September 2016 Sixty-five years ago, General Superintendent Wesley Steelberg opened the 24th...
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