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Amanda Benedict: Pioneer Pentecostal Prayer Warrior in Springfield, Missouri
This Week in AG History — March 19, 1927 By Glenn W. Gohr Originally published on AG News, 21 March 2024 Amanda Benedict (1851-1925) is remembered as a fervent prayer warrior and one of the early...
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Clement Le Cossec: The French Pentecostal Pastor Who Became an Apostle to the...
This Week in AG History–March 30, 1969 By Ruthie Edgerly ObergOriginally published on AG News, 28 March 2024 When Clement Le Cossec (1921-2001) was growing up in Brittany, a province in northwest...
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Frederick Martin Lehman: Pioneer Holiness and Assemblies of God Hymn Writer
This Week in AG History–April 5, 1953 By Ruthie Edgerly ObergOriginally published on AG News, 04 April 2024 Frederick Martin Lehman (1868-1953) was a German-born hymn writer, pastor, and publisher who...
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John and Ella Franklin: Pioneer Assemblies of God Missionaries to Guatemala
This Week in AG History–April 11, 1942 By Ruthie Edgerly ObergOriginally published on AG News, 11 April 2024 John L. Franklin (1910-1999) was orphaned shortly after birth by the death of his mother,...
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Mary Weems Chapman, First Assemblies of God Missionary to South India: Called...
Mary Weems Chapman’s passport photo, 1921. This Week in AG History — April 18, 1925 By Darrin J. RodgersOriginally published on AG-News, 18 March 2024 When veteran missionary Mary Weems Chapman...
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Elmer F. Muir: A Baptist Pastor Discovers the Power of the Holy Spirit in the...
This Week in AG History — April 25, 1925 By Darrin J. RodgersOriginally published on AG-News, 25 March 2024 A Pentecostal revival in the 1920s touched numerous Baptist ministers and churches,...
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Dr. Howard Thomas: The Remarkable Deliverance of a Tennessee Physician from...
This Week in AG History — May 3, 1970 By Darrin J. RodgersOriginally published on AG-News, 02 May 2024 Dr. Howard Thomas (1927-2016) had a promising career as a physician, but a drug addiction almost...
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“Mother” Alice Reynolds Flower: Lessons on Motherhood from an Assemblies of...
This Week in AG History — May 11, 1952 By Glenn W. GohrOriginally published on AG News, 09 May 2024 Alice Reynolds Flower (1890-1991), the wife of AG pioneer J. Roswell Flower, is a shining example of...
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J. Edgar Barrick: Pioneer Assemblies of God Pastor and Missionary to India
This Week in AG History — May 17, 1964 By Glenn W. GohrOriginally published on AG News, 16 May 2024 The Assemblies of God celebrated its 50th anniversary in 1964. During that year, a number of...
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A. H. Argue: Businessman-turned-Pentecostal Pioneer in Canada and the United...
This Week in AG History–May 24, 1941 By Ruthie Edgerly ObergOriginally published on AG News, 23 May 2024 A.H. (Andrew Harvey) Argue (1868-1959) was a pioneering figure in the Pentecostal movement in...
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H. Maurice Lednicky: Assemblies of God Pastor, Educator, Missionary, and Author
This Week in AG History — May 11, 1952 By Glenn W. GohrOriginally published on AG News, 09 May 2024 H. Maurice Lednicky, former president of Central Bible College, has a wide variety of ministry...
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Advice to Young Ministers from W. T. Gaston, Assemblies of God General...
This Week in AG History — June 8, 1929 By Glenn W. GohrOriginally published on AG News, 06 June 2024 William Theodore Gaston (1886-1956), better known as W.T. Gaston, was an early general...
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What Did Early Pentecostals Teach about the Theology of Work?
This Week in AG History — June 11, 1921 By Darrin J. RodgersOriginally published on AG-News, 13 June 2024 What did early Pentecostals teach about the theology of work? Some observers have claimed that...
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Harold and Myrna Carpenter: Assemblies of God Missionaries and Educators
This Week in AG History–June 21, 1970 By Ruthie Edgerly ObergOriginally published on AG News, 20 June 2024 Harold Ray Carpenter (1939-2024), along with his faithful wife, Myrna, served as missionaries...
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Assemblies of God Pioneer Alice E. Luce: Spanish-Speaking Pentecostals Have...
This Week in AG History — June 25, 1927 By Darrin J. RodgersOriginally published on AG-News, 27 June 2024 “A little one shall become a thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I the LORD will hasten...
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Pioneer Assemblies of God Evangelist Ben Hardin: “The Little Man with the Big...
This Week in AG History — July 5, 1941 By Glenn W. GohrOriginally published on AG News, 04 July 2024 Ben Hardin (1893-1958), one of the foremost evangelists in the early years of the Assemblies of...
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Miracles, Growth, and Suffering: Bulgarian Pentecostalism in the 1930s
This Week in AG History — July 9, 1932 By Darrin J. RodgersOriginally published on AG-News, 11 July 2024 Early Bulgarian Pentecostals witnessed great growth while enduring great persecution. Nicholas...
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Mabel Dean: Unexpected Pioneer of the Assemblies of God in Egypt
This Week in AG History–July 16, 1961 By Ruthie Edgerly ObergOriginally published on AG News, 18 July 2024 When Mabel Dean (1884-1961) sensed God’s call to be a missionary to Africa, she was 40 years...
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Dr. Willis C. Hoover: From Medical Doctor to Methodist Missionary to...
This Week in AG History — July 22, 1922 By Glenn W. GohrOriginally published on AG News, 25 July 2024 Willis Collins Hoover (1858-1936) is remembered as the Father of Pentecostalism in Chile. A...
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J. W. Welch: From Sunday School Organizer to Assemblies of God Chairman
This Week in AG History — July 29, 1939 By Darrin J. RodgersOriginally published on AG-News, 02 August 2024 John W. Welch (1858-1939), a senior statesman in the Assemblies of God during its first...
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