William J. Seymour's Contribution To Pentecostalism

Born to parents who had a strong dedication to their faith, Granville Oral Roberts was born near Ada, Oklahoma. His father preached the gospel and established Pentecostal Holiness Churches, and his mother prayed for the sick and led people to Christ. The family was poor, and his father was a farmer while he pastored a church. While Roberts was in his mother’s womb, she dedicated him to the Lord. He was born with a severe stutter, but she continually told him that he would be healed and speak to multitudes.

I am Ernestine Harris, an African American woman from a small town in Georgetown, South Carolina. I am a widow. I am the fourth daughter of the late Joseph and Florence Drayton. Most people refer to me by my nickname ?Tina? I am from a family of eight sibling, three brothers and four sisters. I am a twin to the late Ernest Drayton, Sr. My oldest brother Joe, gave me my nickname Tina because he was unable to pronounce ?Ernestine? This was nice of him because I enjoy the sound of ?Tina? much better.

Dr. Charles Stanley was born in Dry Fork, Virginia on September 25, 1932. Charley and Rebecca Stanley became the parents of a baby boy. Nine months after his birth, his father died at the age of 29 leaving his mother to raise their only child. Stanley was married to Anna Stanley and had a son name Andy. After forty years of marriage the couple was divorced. In spite his difficulties and circumstances in life. Stanley dedicated his life to God’s word. At an early age, Stanley made a commitment to serve God and to preach his word.

It was out of this study that led Parham to the conclusion this was the biblical way a person received the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Parham moved to Houston Texas and started a church and bible school. It was at this school where a student name William Joseph Seymour, a black man attended the training sessions that Parham taught. Because of the laws of segregation at the time Seymour was forced to sit in the hallway and listen to the teachings of Parham. Seymour desired

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Penn was interested in religion from the time he was a child. When he was twelve years old he had the opportunity to hear testimony from a traveling Quaker minister, Thomas Loe. Penn was touched by Loe’s message, and sought the ‘authentic Christian message’ rather then focusing on ‘institutional’ religion. At the

By the 18th century, there were concerns about the declining religious devotion and the increase of secularism emerging in the United States. The result of these changes was the Great Awakening, the first major american revival. There were many preachers that were outspoken from their religion. George Whitefield was one of many of those preachers. Whitefield was very compassionate during his speeches, preaching the words of God, weeping with sorrow, spreading the word of God, and hitting people on an emotional standpoint. He made numerous evangelizing tours through the colonies and attracted large crowds. Nathan Cole, like thousands of others, came to see George Whitefield. Nathan Cole wrote in “The Spiritual Travels of Nathan Cole” and said, “When I saw Mr. Whitefield come upon the Scaffold he lookt almost angelical; a young, Slim, slender, youth before some thousands of people with a bold undaunted Countenance, and my hearing how God was with him every where he came along it Solemnized my mind; and put me into a trembling fear before he began to preach; for he looked as if he was Cloathed with authority from the Great God; and a sweet sollume solemnity sat upon his brow And my hearing him preach, gave me a heart wound…” Cole had just described that hundreds upon hundreds of people came to see Whitefield and speakers like him. This greatly revived religion in many peoples’ lives. Cole said that the speech given touched him in the heart as it did with thousands of others.

Chrisleine Temple is an eighteen-year-old student at Williams College from Sierra Leone. Before coming to Williamstown, she participated in Pentecostal services with her family every Sunday morning “unless on her death bed” and attended a Jesuit preparatory school. Asked about the presence of a God in her life, she told this story:

his profession as a pastor in search for vital truth and hope. But his father

He was a hospitable, respectful person. He wanted to be baptized and received into the church.

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Shortly thereafter, whether answering a call from God, or at the urging of the Reverend Sicco Tjady, Frelinghuysen came to America, because the Dutch population needed ministers./ along with his wife Eva Terhune, a farmer 's daughter; and five sons that all entered the ministry, and two daughters that married clergymen,/ Eloquent and vigorous, Frelinghuysen’s ministry stimulated community intellectual life, trained several ministers, and his preaching of the gospel of Jesus Christ had a reforming effect, and significant revivals followed./ Unbeknownst to some, Theodorus Jacobus Frelinghuysen; a Dutch Reformed clergyman, and noted exhorter initiated the Great Awakening in America 's middle colonies.

encompasses suffering, loss and death just through the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. Having said that,

1. Through the death and resurrection of Jesus we have been forgiven of our sins-

John B. Watson was born on January 9th in the year of 1878 in Travelers Rest, South Carolina. He was named after a prominent Baptist minister in hope that it would help him receive the call to become a preacher of gospel. He grew up in Greenville, South Carolina with his mother and father and three older siblings. The Watson Family was very poor, they claimed that the family lost their wealth in the Civil War. John’s mother Emma was very religious, her soul focus was on her farm, her kids and her religion. The Watsons attended the local Baptist church in their home town. In their home God and the Devil played a major role in their everyday lives. In his upbringing