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Successful Church Planting in the Assemblies of God: Cumberland, Maryland in...
This Week in AG History–January 31, 1954 By Darrin Rodgers Also published in PE News, 29 January 2015 Church planting has always been part of the DNA of the Assemblies of God. While specific programs...
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100-Year-Old Hoopa Indian Woman Accepted Christ, Healed, Cured of Addiction;...
This Week in AG History–February 8, 1930 By Darrin Rodgers Also published in PE News, 5 February 2015 Aunt Fanny, a 100-year old Hoopa Indian woman, accepted Christ in about 1920 when a...
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Mexican Americans and Pentecostal Growth During the Great Depression
This Week in AG History–February 12, 1932 By Darrin Rodgers Also published in PE News, 12 February 2015 While the Great Depression (beginning in 1929) affected everyone in the United States, it was...
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English Nurse Survives Gunfire and Dynamite to Become Pentecostal Pioneer in...
This Week in AG History–February 20, 1932 By Darrin Rodgers Also published in PE News, 19 February 2015 Marion Eason Wakeman, an English nurse, did not intend to become a Pentecostal missionary to the...
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Christians have Obligation to Oppose Statism, According to 1933 Assemblies of...
Cartoon published in the Pentecostal Evangel, June 29, 1940. By Darrin J. Rodgers Christians have an obligation to oppose statism. An article in the May 1933 issue of the Latter Rain Evangel, a...
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Paul Bettex: Early Pentecostal Linguist, Missionary, Martyr
This Week in AG History–February 25, 1928 By Darrin Rodgers Also published in PE News, 25 February 2015 This Week in AG History February 251928 | PE News// // Paul Bettex (1864-1916) possessed one of...
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Tour of COGIC Holy Sites to be Hosted by Mother Mary P. Patterson, April 17-18
The HOLINESS EVOLUTION SUMMIT will convene on Friday, April 17, 2015 touring the Holy Sites in Lexington/Holmes County, MS and concluding on Saturday, April 18, 2015 in Memphis, TN at the historical...
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Robert Brown: The Irish Immigrant Who Became a Pentecostal Pioneer in New...
This Week in AG History–March 6, 1948 By Darrin Rodgers Also published in PE News, 5 March 2015 Robert A. Brown (1872-1948), with his wife Marie, founded Glad Tidings Tabernacle in New York City,...
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Prominent Novelist Sven Lidman Shocked Sweden by 1921 Conversion to...
This Week in AG History–March 12, 1927 By Darrin Rodgers Also published in PE News, 12 March 2015 When Sven Lidman (1882-1960), one of Sweden’s most prominent authors, accepted Christ as Savior and...
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Methodist and United Brethren Churches Embrace 1919 Pentecostal Revival in...
This Week in AG History–March 19, 1921 By Darrin Rodgers Also published in PE News, 19 March 2015 Methodist and United Brethren congregations in Baltimore, Maryland, embraced a revival sparked by...
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Pentecostal Evangel Sparked Great Revival in Nigeria in 1930s
This Week in AG History–March 29, 1959 By Darrin Rodgers Also published in PE News, 26 March 2015 A great revival in Nigeria that led to the formation of the Assemblies of God in that nation can be...
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Pentecostals, Pacifism, and Religious Liberty in World War I: The Waldron Case
This Week in AG History–April 5, 1919 By Darrin Rodgers Also published in PE News, 2 April 2015 Clarence H. Waldron (1885-1926), an early Baptist-turned-Pentecostal minister, became the central figure...
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Elsie Peters, Pioneer of Assemblies of God Deaf Ministries
This Week in AG History–April 11, 1931 By Darrin Rodgers Also published in PE News, 9 April 2015 Elsie Peters (1898-1965) was the earliest known Assemblies of God minister to the deaf. Peters’ call to...
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Mary Weems Chapman: Called to the Prostitutes and Untouchables of South India
This Week in AG History–April 18, 1925 By Darrin Rodgers Also published in PE News, 15 April 2015 When veteran missionary Mary Weems Chapman (1857-1927) felt God’s call to return to India, her family...
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Elmer F. Muir: A Baptist Pastor Discovers the Power of the Holy Spirit
Elmer F. Muir This Week in AG History–April 25, 1925 By Darrin Rodgers Also published in PE News, 23 April 2015 A Pentecostal revival in the 1920s touched numerous Baptist ministers and churches,...
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Leading Chinese Atheist: I Now Believe in God after Witnessing a Miracle
Dr. Wang Yun-Wu, Vice Premier of the Republic of China (1958-1963) This Week in AG History–May 2, 1931 By Darrin Rodgers Also published in PE News, 30 April 2015 A prominent Chinese scholar, Dr. Wang...
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R. Hilton Griswold, Longtime AG Minister and Gospel Musician, with the Lord...
Hilton Griswold playing the piano in the E. N. Bell Chapel at the dedication of the Flower Pentecostal Heritage Center. By Glenn Gohr The Flower Pentecostal Heritage Center is saddened to announce the...
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Frodsham: Prophecy Fulfilled by Pentecostal Participation in National...
This Week in AG History–May 10, 1947 By Darrin Rodgers Also published in PE News, 7 May 2015 Pentecostals were relatively isolated from mainstream Protestantism in the early twentieth century. When...
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Former Kansans Peggy Musgrove and Leota Morar Donate Pentecostal Materials...
Peggy Musgrove (left) and Leota Morar (right) donated materials to the FPHC and the AG Used Book Clearinghouse. Peggy Musgrove, former national director of Women’s Ministries and widow of Kansas...
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What is the Secret to a Successful Pentecostal Church? Read this Pastor’s...
This Week in AG History–May 18, 1946 By Darrin Rodgers Also published in PE News, 14 May 2015 What is the distinctive feature in a Pentecostal worship service? The answer, according to a 1946...
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