Azusa Street Timeline

William J. Seymour is born to Simon and Phillis (Salabas) Seymour in Centerville, Louisiana.

William J. Seymour is baptized at the Church of the Assumption (Roman Catholic) in Franklin, Louisiana.

William J. Seymour lives in Indianapolis, Indiana. He is saved in the Methodist Church, but later joins the Evening Light Saints (Church of God, Anderson, Indiana).

In Los Angeles, California, Joseph Smale becomes the pastor of First Baptist Church.

William J. Seymour is employed as a farm laborer in Verdunville, Louisiana.

At the short-term Bible school established by Charles F. Parham in Topeka, Kansas, Agnes N. Ozman speaks in tongues. Parham interprets this phenomenon to be the Bible evidence of the baptism in the Holy Spirit.

Seymour moves to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he attends God’s Bible School, a Wesleyan Holiness Bible school run by Martin Wells Knapp. While he is in Cincinnati, he contracts smallpox and loses sight in his left eye.

Seymour moves to Houston, Texas, where he worships in the African-American community. He also holds meetings in Lake Charles, Louisiana.

Stevens African Methodist Episcopal Church completes and dedicates a new building at 8th and Towne in Los Angeles, California. The congregation changes its name to First African Methodist Episcopal Church (FAME) and moves into their newly constructed sanctuary. This leaves the property at 312 Azusa Street vacant.

An unknown arsonist sets fire to several buildings in Los Angeles, California, overnight, including the vacant sanctuary at 312 Azusa Street. The pitch roof and much of the internal walls of the second floor sancturary are destroyed. The building is declared a total loss. The board at First African Methodist Episcopal Church decides to repair the building. They give it a flat roof, and build a series of rooms on the second floor. The ground floor is let out to local contractor for storing materials.

Pastor Joseph Smale of Los Angeles, California, visits the Welsh revival, where he befriends Evan Roberts. Three hundred Russian and Armenian Mlikans arrive in Los Angeles, with more than 1,000 others to follow- among them is the Shakarian family. They have immigrated in response to a prophecy received by this community in 1855.

William F. Manley holds a tent meeting at the corner of West 1st Street (now Beverly Blvd.) and North Bonnie Brae Street in Los Angeles, California. Mrs. Julia W. Hutchins, recently expelled from Second Baptist Church for teaching “Holiness,” attends his meetings.

Seymour worships in a small, African-American Holiness congregation founded by Mrs. Lucy F. Farrow.

Convinced that Los Angeles, California, needs a revival like that in Wales, Pastor Smale begins holding protracted meetings at First Baptist Church in Los Angles

Charles F. Parham’s team arrives in Houston, Texas, to hold Apostolic meetings in Bryan Hall.

Mrs. Julia W. Hutchins and J.W. Slaughter apply for a permit to hold street meetings at 1st and San Pedro Streets. Their application is denied. Mrs. Hutchins establishes an unnamed Holiness Church at 9th and Santa Fe Streets.

Charles Parham employs Lucy F. Farrow as the governess of his children and moves to Melrose, Kansas. He leaves part of his evangelistic party in Houston, Texas. Mrs. Farrow turns the pulpit of her congregation over to William J. Seymour. He begins to serve as the church’s pastor. While Seymour is pastoring Lucy F. Farrow’s congregation, Miss Neely Terry, a member of Mrs. Hutchins’ congregation in Los Angeles, California, visits relatives in Houston. She attends the church and is favorably impressed by Seymour’s preaching.

Warren Faye Carothers invites Parham’s Houston, Texas, contingent to begin meetings in his church, the Christian Witness Tabernacle in Brunner, Texas. He receives the baptism in the Holy Spirit that week and his congregation becomes an Apostolic Faith Church.

Charles Parham begins meetings in Baxter Springs, Kansas.

Parham opens up a month-long meeting in Columbus, Kansas. Lucy F. Farrow is baptized in the Spirit during this month of meetings. In the meantime, Parham is watching events unfold in Zion, Illinois, where John Alexander Dowie is faltering. Meanwhile, in Los Angeles, California, Joseph Smale is in trouble with his board of trustees at First Baptist Church.

Joseph Smale is given an ultimatum by his board of trustees at First Baptist Church to either drop the protracted meetings and stop preaching revival or leave. Smale leaves.

Joseph Smale holds an organizational meeting for a new congregation in Los Angeles. It will be called First New Testament Church. Frank Bartleman begins to attend this church, which will meet in a theater, Burbank Hall.

In the Fall of 1905, the young men of the First Methodist Church in Los Angeles, California, where Florence Creawford is a member, begin to hold all-night prayer meetings.

Charles Parham gathers his traveling party of 22 people, and takes the overnight train to Old Orchard, Texas, where he holds meetings through October 21.

Charles Parham announces that he is the projector of the Apostolic Faith Movement. He sets up his home in Houston, Texas, and announces that he will begin a short-term Bible training school at the corner of Rusk Avenue and Brazos Street. Lucy F. Farrow encourages William Seymour to talk to Charles Parham and enroll in his school.

Seymour visits Charles Price Jones and/or Charles Harrison Mason, and cofounders of the Church of God in Christ, in Jackson, Mississippi.

William J. Seymour begins classes with Charles F, Parham. Due to Texas’ Jim Crow laws, Seymour sits in the hallway rather than in the classroom with the white students. The course of study will last 10 weeks.

During early February 1906, William J. Seymour receives an invitation from Mrs. Julia W. Hutchins to serve as pastor of the Holiness Church congregation she has founded in Los Angeles, California. His teacher Charles Parham tries to talk Seymour out of accepting the call, but relents when Seymour persists. Seymour leaves Houston, Texas, before he has finished his course of study and before he has been baptized in the Holy Spirit. During this time in Los Angeles, a few Christian leaders were interested in praying to the Holy Spirit. These leaders included Julia W. Hitchins and pastor Joseph Smale, who had been asked to leave the First Baptist Church of Los Angeles due to this spiritual interest. Pastor Smale founded the new First New Testiment Church while Hutchins and Seymour founded the Azusa Street Revival. These leaders became important colleagues and together significantly influenced the development of the Pentecostal movement.

W.F. Carothers conducts a farewell service and Parham’s students lay hands on Seymour and pray for him. Seymour boards a train headed to Denver, Colorado, where he will change to one going to Los Angeles, California. He spends the night at the Pillar of Fire Training School founded by Alma White, and leads the group in prayer before they eat their evening meal.

William J. Seymour arrives in Los Angeles, California

Seymour preaches his first sermon as pastor of the Holiness Church at 9th Street and Stanta Fe Avenue. He continues preaching on Sunday, February 25; Tuesday, February 27; and Friday, March 2, while holding meetings at 3 p.m. each afternoon.

Seymour preaches the morning service, but is locked out when he returns for the evening service. Mrs. Hutchins expresses concern that his doctrine of baptism in the Holy Spirit is not correct Holiness doctrine. She calls for a meeting with the leaders of the Holiness Church of Southern California. Seymour finds housing with Edward S. and Mattie Lee.

In mid-March of 1906, J.M. Roberts conducts a meeting in which Seymour is allowed to preach or explain his doctrine on the baptism in the Holy Spirit, while the leaders and pastors of the Holiness Church listen to his presentation, ask questions, and take a vote. They conclude that his doctorine is not consistent with the position of the Holiness Church and tell him if he is to continue as pastor of the church at 9th Street and Santa Fe Avenue, he must stop teaching it. Seymour refuses their mandate, gently but firmly. He begins an evening prayer meeting at the Lee Home at 114 South Union Street, near West 1st Street and North Bonnie Brae Street. Frank Bartleman attends at least one of these meetings.

The new meeting outgrows the Lee house and moves to the home of Ruth and Richard Asberry at 214 (now 216) North Bonnie Brae Street. The meetings are held each night throughout the remainder of the month and on into the month of April.

Mrs. Cenna Osterberg testifies at her son’s church, the Full Gospel Tabernacle, and tells of the meeting she attended at the Asberry home the previous evening. Her son, Arthur, is embarrassed by her testimony and decides to investigate. His board members join him. He is convinced that Seymour’s message is right.

No one has been baptized in the Holy Spirit and spoken in tongues yet. The group at the Asberry house decides to engage in a 10-day fast while they pray for the baptism in the Spirit.

Elmer K. Fisher of Calvary Baptist Church in nearby Glendale resigns his pastorate. Inspired by reading R.A. Torrey on the Holy Spirit, he has been preaching the need for revival at this church. His board, however, wants him to change his preaching emphasis. He joins the staff at Smale’s First New Testament Church the following week.

Edward S. Lee is baptized in the Spirit and speaks in other tongues in the late afternoon when William J. Seymour and Lucy F. Farrow lay hands on him for healing at his house. At 7:30 p.m., the group moves to the Asberry home on Bonnie Brae for the evening meeting and before the night is over, Jennie Evans Moore and several others have joined him. The news spreads throughout the Holiness network in the city of Los Angeles.

William J. Seymour receives his baptism in the Holy Spirit and speaks in toungues.

On Good Friday, Seymour and his friends lease the property at 312 Azusa Street and begin cleaning it up. Arthur G. Osterberg leads the work detail, which includes blacks, whites and Latinos.

Three African-American men, Horace B. Duncan, Gread Coker, and Will Allen, are dragged by a mob of 7,000 people to the town square in Springfield, Missouri and lynched. This city will be the future home of the Assemblies of God church.

On Easter Sunday, Jennie Evans Moore and Ruth Asberry attend Smale’s First New Testament Church for the morning service. At the close fo the service, Smale opens the floor for testimonies. Jennie Evans Moore testifies of what has taken place at the Asberry prayer meetins, and ends her testimony by speaking in tongues. The congregation, including Frank Bartleman, is electrified. That evening, services begin at the Azusa Street Mission at 312 Azusa Street.

The Los Angeles Daily Times sends a reporter to the evening service. The reporter finds a small congregation of African-Americans with a sprinkling of whites.

At 5:48 a.m., San Francisco, California is rocked by an earthquake. During the next 4 days, the city burns. The first report on the Azusa Street Mission appears under the title, “Weird Babel of Tongues,” in the Los Angeles Daily Times. The Mission begins to grow.

Los Angeles feels two earthquakes. A.G. Garr and Frank Bartleman both record that windows broke, chimneys fell, floors heaved, and people ran into the streets.

Angered by the fact local evangelical pastors were calling it a natural disaster, Frank Bartleman begins works on his famous “The Earthquake!!!” tract. He completes it on April 24th, and has 25,000 copies printed that day and begins to distribute them immediately.

William H. McGowan, a member of the Los Angeles Holiness Church, begins to stop by the Azusa Street Mission while his truck is being loaded with building materials at a nearby lumber yard. Convinced what is happening there is of God, McGowan testifies at the Los Angeles Holiness Church and invites the entire congregation to join him and see for themselves. Pastor William Pendleton takes up the invitation, and soon, nearly the entire congregation has been baptized in the Holy Spirit.

Between Frank Bartleman’s efforts as well as the efforts of Francis W. Manley in Oakland, California, “The Earthquake!!!” tract has been printed 125,000 times. The Los Angeles police department has sent out an officer to get to the bottom of it. Frank Bartleman is pleased with himself, “I have never written a tract that had so much influence.” The mission continues to grow.

Abundio and Rosa de Lopez attend the Azusa Street Mission. He claims he came seeking sanctification. He also heard about the baptism in the Holy Spirit.

Abundio L. Loopez is batized in the Holy Spirit at the Azusa Street Mission.

In a Los Angeles Church of God tent meeting, Henry Prentiss, a young African-American preacher, uses explicit language and points his finger at a white woman in the congregation whom he names as a sinner. A riot ensues in which calls are made to lynch Prentiss. Tent ropes are cut. Prentiss is arrested on charges of disturning the peace.

The press rediscovers the Azusa Street Mission. Attendance is reported as several hundred people, both black and white, in meetings that resemble a Negro revial meeting in the South. The reporter is awed by the phenomenon known as singing the Spirit.

Preacher Henry Prentiss is pot on trial before Judge Joseph Chambers. Prentiss is found guilty.

Preacher Henry Prentiss is sentenced to 30 days on the chain gang.

The Reverend A.G. Garr, pastor of the local Burning Bush congregation, visits the Azusa Street Mission and is baptized in the Spirit. Soon his wife and much of his congregation have done the same.

Ansel H. Post, an evangelist with Francis Manley’s Household of God, is holding meetings in Pasadena, California. He attends the Azusa Street Mission this afternoon and is baptized in the Spirit in a public display of emotion. He will begin preaching the Apostolic Faith the next day in his Pasadena tent.

At the Azusa Street Mission, A.G. and Lillian Garr announce God has called them to be missionaries in India. Within 15 minutes, they have been given $1,200 toward their expenses. After Seymour prays over them, they travel to Chicago and on to Danville, Virginia, to hold meetings, finish some personal business , and arrive in India in January 1907.

Driven by a complaint to the city council, the city of Pasadena, California, assigns a police officer to enforce a curfew of 10 p.m. and to make sure Ansel H. Post’s tent services are not too noisy. Still upset, Mrs. West, a local rooming house owner, begins to circulate a petition to get rid of Post.

Franklin E. Hill, pastor of the Second Nazarene Church, is baptized in the Spirit at the Azusa Street Mission. Much of his congregation joins him as he establishes an Apostolic Faith congregation at 51st and Central. In Pasadena, California, the city council revokes Post’s permit to hold the tent meeting under duress from his neighbors because of the noise from his meetings. Post refuses to move. Apostolic Faith services begin in the Monrovia Holiness Church.

Seymour writes to W.F. Carothers, now the state director of the Apostolic Faith Movement in Texas, and asks him to forward his credentials with the Apostolic Faith. Pastor Pendleton is summoned before the board of elders of the Holiness Church that oversees the congregations in Southern California. They try to persuade him that he is wrong and pass a resolition on what they call the Azusa Street teaching of “a third work of grace.” In Pasadena, california, in the middle of his evening srevice, A.H. Post is arrested for disturning the peace. The Los Angeles Times sends a reporter to Burbank Hall. Smale is away, but an evangelist named John Boyd leads services in which people speak in tongues, bark, and are slain in the Spirit. That same night, 500 people attend the Azusa Street Mission. In Pasadena, California, Post stands trial before Justice McDonald. He is found guilty and sentenced to 50 days in jail or a $50 fine. The judge offers Post another option. If he will move his tent within 48 hours, the court will suspend the sentence. Post takes his tent down.

City Prosecutor George B. Beebe visits the Azusa Street Mission at the insistence of the Los Angeles Police Department. He declares there is no need to file charges against the group. In Pasadena, California, Post finds another building and the process begins again. Neighbors complain to the city. The landlord is pressured to break the lease. They will move again.

On the 16th and 17th, Glenn Cook travels from the Azusa Street Mission to begin a series of meetings at the Monrovia Holiness Church. He preaches on Abraham’s willingness to offer up Isaac as a sacrafice to God. The local people are horrified the Apostolic Faith people are going to start sacrificing their babies and children. They pressure the local marshal to put an end to the meetings. He attends, but finds nothing wrong.

In Monrovia, California, Pastor Owen Adams of the Holiness Church is so taken with the Azusa Street revival, he purchases $25 worth of streetcar tickets so the people of his congregation can go back and forth between Monrovia and Los Angeles.

The Evening News publishes a cartoon at the top of page 1, entitled, “Summer Solstice Sees Strenuous Sects Sashaying.” It is a tongue twister. People are attracted to the Azusa Street Mission by this cartoon. The Los Angeles Daily Times runs an article on First New Testament Church entitled, “Queer ‘Gift’ Given Many,” in which attention is called to the actions of Lillian Keyes, the 16-year-old daughter of a prominent surgeon, Dr. Henry S. Keyes. Pastor Smale writes a letter to the Los Angeles Church Federation, challenging them to take some positive action.

The Los Angeles Church Federation meets to determine what it can do to meet the challenges being leveled at them by the burgeoning movement begun at the Azusa Street Mission and to respond to Pastor Smale. They agree to add an evening prayer meeting to their weekly services, to call their people to make commitments to pray for revival, to begin cooperative street meetings one night each week in front of different downtown churches, followed by an evangelistic service, to initiate a regular process of canvassing neighborhoods for new immigrants and sharing their names with member pastors, and to move toward a citywide evangelistic meeting in 1907.

The Houston Chronicle carries news to the Azusa Street Revival even as it anticipates Parham’s return to Houston, Texas, from a series of meetings.

Seymour and a group of people who form the initial staff at the Azusa Street Mission pose for a photograph. Within a week, Florence Crawford leads a contingent of workers including half of the group photographed _ up the pacific coast, holding meetings in Ventura, Santa Barbara, San Jose, Oakland, San Francisco, and woodland.

From August 3-24, Lucy F. Farrow attends Parham’s camp meeting in Houston, Texas, where she gives her testimony and prays for people.

Parham arrives in Houston, Texas. Mrs. Anna Hall asks for permission to go to Los Angeles, California.

Lucy Leatherman, Andrew Johnson, and Louise Condit leave the Crawford party in Oakland, California, and turn East.

William H. Pendleton is charged with the errors that the baptism in the Holy Ghost is received after sanctification.

Martin L. Ryan, pastor of a small mission in Salem, Oregon, visits the Azusa Street Mission and is baptized in the Spirit. He returns to Salem and begins writing to the Mission, asking them to send a team of workers to hold Apostolic Faith services in his congregation. Lucy Leatherman writes from Denver, Colorado, that they have participated in Apostolic Faith meetings in Colorado Springs and Denver.

Frank Bartleman begins the 8th and Maple Church.

The Holiness Church Association holds a special business meeting and attempts to get Pendleton to recant. He refuses, and Pendleton and his congregation are told that they can no longer use the Los Angeles Holiness Church property. They join the 8th and Maple congregation the following Sunday, and Frank Bartleman makes William Pendleton the copastor. The Azusa Street Mission begins street meetings in nearby Whittier, California.

Andrew Johnson notes his arrival in New York City with Lucy Leatherman and Louise Condit.

The Elysian Heights Church of Nazarene is split when some members begin to speak in tongues. Apostolic Faith meetings continue in Los Angeles, Pasadena, Monrovia, and Whittier, California. African-American Holiness Evangelist Edward (sometimes called Joseph) McCauley visits the Azusa Street Mission where he is baptized in the Spirit. In early September, Andrew Johnson and Louise Condit leave New York for Jerusalem. The Azusa Street Mission publishes the first issue of the Apostolic Faith.

Seymour holds meetings at The Barracks on the corner of Greenleaf and Hadley in Whittier, California.

At the first New Testament Church, 16-year-old Lillian Keyes hands a note to Pastor Smale telling him, “Thus saith the Lord…you have grieved the Holy Ghost.” Smale is upset and writes a response to Dr. And Mrs. Keyes suggesting Lillian has gone off into fanaticism. Dr. Keyes is deeply offended. Meanwhile, Charles F. Parham leaves Kansas for Zion, Illinois, arriving the next day. His detour to Zion will last about 6 weeks.

George Berg, a veteran Holiness missionary to India, visits the Azusa Street Mission and is baptized in the Spirit. He and his wife, Mary, will return as Apostolic Faith missionaries to India in February 1908. Andrew Johnson, Louise Condit, and Mrs. Bushnell from New York, sail from New York. Lucy Leatherman remains in New York City. In Los Angeles, California, the Azusa Street Mission holds a service at the train depot as Mrs. Julia W. Hutchins, her husband Willis, and her niece, Leila McKinney, leave for a missionary term in Liberia. They will stop off in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where Julia Hutchins will hold meetings.

Dr. Henry S. Keyes is interviewed by the Los Angeles Daily Times. He agrees to write in tongues, and prevails on L.C. Le Nan to provide an interlinear interpretation. The Times publishes it the following day with the title, “Hand Made Chicken Tracks on Paper.”

Lillian Keyes tries to prophesy in First New Testament Church, and Smale publicly censures her. Dr. Keyes barks like a dog.

T.B Baratt, a Methodist pastor from Christiana (now Oslo), Norway, has spent nearly a year in the United States raising funds for a new mission in Oslo. He has been staying at the Alliance House in New York City. He reads The Apostolic Faith newspaper and becomes excited. He writes to the Azusa Street Mission for more information.

At the Azusa Street meeting in Whittier, California, Peter Morris tries to stop the meeting, ultimately giving his sponsor, Mr. W.S. Lemon, a black eye. Morris is arrested, and the next day he is fined $10. Los Angeles, California, papers pick up on the story regarding the Smale versus Keyes exchange.

A week-long race riot begins when whites slaughter blacks in Atlanta, Georgia. Many are killed. Troops are called in to quell the riot.

Dr. R.J. Burdette, pastor of Temple Baptist Church, labels what is taking place at the Azusa Street Mission as an amalgamation of African voodoo superstition and Caucasian insanity. He predicts participants will pass away like the hysterical nightmares that they are. Two major newspapers cover the story. Dr. Keyes begins a new congregation this Sunday in a rented hall. Elmer K. Fisher agrees to serve as pastor. The congregation will become known as the Upper Room Mission.

The revival has spread to the People’s Church led by the Reverend Thomas Atteberry. It began when Glenn Cook, Bridget Welsh, and Adolph Rosa went to the People’s Church in mid-September and shared their testimonies. Atteberry is baptized in the Spirit and joins the revival.

Pastor Smale attempts to clear the air by sending a letter to Dr. Keyes claiming he never suggested Lillian Keyes was involved in spiritualism. The Keyes-Smale relationship, however, was beyond repair.

Mrs. I May Throop writes a letter to T.B. Barratt in Response to a letter received from him at the Azusa Street Mission.

The Holiness Church in Sawtelle, California near Santa Monica, becomes an Apostolic Faith Mission due to the testimony of Carrie Poole who received her baptism in the Spirit at the Ausa Street Mission. Antoinette Moomau, a Presbyterian missionary in Shang-hai, China, visits the Azusa Street Mission and receives the baptism in the Spirit. She returns to China as an independent Apostolic Faitch missionary until her death on March 25, 1937.

T.B. Barratt writes to the Azusa Street Mission to inquire further about how to receive the baptism in the Holy Spirit.

Henry Prentiss is approached by police officers as he holds an Apostolic Faith street meeting in downtown Los Angeles, California. He begins to speak in tongues. The officers take him into custody. The city’s insanity committee gives him a hearing. Judged sane, he is released.

Four workers from the Azusa Street Mission who are holding services in Whittier, California, Henry McLain and his wife, Mae Mayo, and Agnes Jacobsen, are arrested for disturbing the peace. In New York, T.B. Barratt has a wonderful experience of God between 5 and 6 p.m.

The workers arrested in Whittier, California, appear before Judge Gidley. The judge gives them a choice. They can leave town, or choose between a $30 fine or 30 days in jail. The women leave town, but Henry McLain chooses jail, becoming Azusa Street’s first martyr. Meanwhile, 15 more workers come from Los Angeles, California, by streetcar to replace those who have been arrested. Glenn cook responds to T.B. Barratt’s inquiry of October 2, advising him that the Holy Ghost only comes in when you come to an end of self.

Glenn Cook writes another letter to T.B. Barratt in response to Barratt’s request for further information on the baptism in the Spirit. Barratt has told him of praying and feeling the Spirit moving. Cook informs him speaking in tongues should follow the Baptism and encourages him to continue his quest.

Smale writes an article on the gift of tongues. In the article, he claims the Apostolic Faith people believe all Christians should speak in tongues, and the bible evidence of baptism in the Spirit is speaking in tongues. He labels these teachings as erroneous. He went on to argue the arrival of tongues in Los Angeles, California, had broken the unit of the intercessors who had been praying for revival.

T.B. Barratt notes, “Am seeking the gift of tongues and other signs of Pentecostal Power, God in His mercy will give me.”

Charles F. Parham arrives in Los Angeles, California. T.B. Barratt again writes to the Azusa Street Mission for advice. He has asked for written certification from a physycian regarding a certain claim to healing.

Henry Prentiss leads a group of 15 men from the Azusa Street Mission to Whittier, California, where he proceeds to hold a street meeting at the corner of Greenleaf and Philadelphia. He competes for a crowd with a man who is already speaking on temperance on the opposite corner. The crowd erupts and city marshals escort Prentiss away from the crowd.

In a sermon preached at the Azusa Street Mission, Parham declares, “God is sick to His stomach” with what is going on at the Mission, and Parham moves to take control. Parham is told he is no longer welcome at the Mission. He gathers his Texas friends and leaves. The Apostolic Faith reports that Abundio and Rosa de Lopez are busy ministering to local Latinos on the Plaza (La Placita) of Los Angeles, California. They are altar workers at the Azusa Street Mission and until at least 1909, Abundio Lopez is also designated as a missionary at the Gospel Detective Mission, aimed at ministering to Latino workers for the Southern Pacific Railroad.

Glenn Cook responds to T.B. Barratt’s letter of October 26. He urges Barratt to keep his eyes on Jesus and argues, “I do not feel clear to go to the world for evidence (of healing), and reputable physicians are not numerous in the narrow way.” In Whittier, California, Henry Prentiss, Tom Anderson, C.H. Nichols, and William Millson are arrested for disturbing the peace. They are released on $100 bail each.

Los Angeles newspapers carry advertisements that Parham will now be holding meetings elsewhere. He attempts to establish an Apostolic Faith Mission of his own in Los Angeles.

Henry Prentiss and his friends ask for a trial by jury. The jury deliberates from 3 p.m. until 11:30 p.m., but fails to reach a consensus. A mistrial is declared, and a new trial is set for November 23.

Ophelia Wiley, an African-American woman with Florence Crawford’s evangelistic party, goes to Salem, Oregon, where she holds meetings in the church led by M.I. Ryan. In New York City, T.B. Barratt is baptized in the Holy Spirit after Lucy Leatherman lays hands on him and prays over him.

After running out of funds and being forced to beg on the streets of Naples, Italy, Andrew Johnson decides to sail for Gothenburg, Sweden. Louise Condit continues on to Jerusalem.

Clara Lum writes to T.B. Barratt and rejoices in the collection of letters that Barratt has sent to the mission. She reports she had read his last letter to the crowd during one of the Mission’s services, and G.B. Cashwell had been so excited at hearing it that he had been baptized in the Spirit as a result. She urges him to keep writing and claims the Lord will use him in this ministry.

All charges against Henry Prentiss and his friends are dismissed.

Ivey Campbell arrives in East Liverpool, Ohio, from the Azusa Street Mission.

Ivey Campbell holds a meeting at the Broadway Mission in East Liverpool, Ohio. She gives her testimony of being baptized in the Spirit, but most people are skeptical and reject it.

Parham sends a telegram to his following in Zion, Illinois, in which he resigns as head of the movement. B.H. Irwin writes to T.B. Barratt from Salem, Oregon, after reading Barratt’s letter of November 13 to the Azusa Street Mission, and shares his own experience of being baptized in the Spirit.

Parham writes an open letter explaining his actions at the Azusa Street Mission. He accuses the mission of being overrun by hypnotic influences, familiar-spirit influences, spiritualistic influences, mesmeric influences, and all kinds of spells, spasms, and falling in trances. Meanwhile, the missionaries from the Azusa Street Mission who are going to Africa arrive in New York City. These missionaries include: Samuel and Ardella Mead, Robert and Myrtle Shideler, Lucy F. Farrow, Julia and Willis Hutchins, Leila McKinney, George and Daisy Batman and their three children, Bessi, Robert, and an unnamed infant.

In early December, the Azusa Street Mission announces it will now lead the Pacific Coast Apostolic Faith movement. The Mission produces stationery with this information on its letterhead. In Long Beach, California, with the aid of many people from the Azusa Street Mission, Edward McCauley establishes an Apostolic Faith Mission. In Ta-ming-fu, Chi-Li Province, China, Bernt and Magna Berntsen, independent Norwegian missionaries, read an early issue of Azusa Street’s The Apostolic Faith and become hungry for the baptism.

Glenn Cook leaves for Lamont, Oklahoma, where he will conduct a camp meeting.

Ivey Campbell begins a month of meetings at the South Street mission in Akron, Ohio. Within a month, at least 40 people have been baptized in the Spirit. Among these who visit the mission is Levi Lupton, an evangelist from the Society of Friends (Quakers). He conducts a Bible school in Alliance, Ohio.

The missionaries headed to Africa and Pastor Thomas Ball Barratt all board the S.S. Campania and sail from New York to Liverpool, England. The group travelling to Liberia has recruited three new missionaries from New York City, Mr. F.M. Cook, Mrs. Lee, and an unidentified woman.

From December 11-18, Glenn Cook holds meetings in Lamont, Oklahoma. He moves on to Chicago.

Parham’s aides hold meetings in nearby Whittier, California, promising dignified religious services instead of the type of religious anarchy found at the Los Angeles Azusa Street meetings.

Florence Crawford and her daughter, Mildred, arrive in Salem, Oregon. People are already speaking and writing in tongues. Ryan’s congregation has been turned upside down by the revival.

Thomas B. Barratt sails from Liverpool, England, to Oslo, Norway.

Azusa Street missionaries sail aboard the S.S. Buruto from Liverpool, England, to Monrovia, Liberia. They arrive in Liberia before the first of the year.

Henry Prentiss, Curtis Nichols, Orly Nichols, Tom Anderson, William Millson, and Isaac Berg hold a meeting at Miller’s Hall in Anaheim, California.

Henry Prentiss is accosted by a group of young men in Anaheim, California, who are upset because of the meetings he has been conducting in Miller’s Hall. The men begin to taunt him with a rope, telling him they will hang him. Marshall Steadman appears, and Prentiss retreats to the home of George Berg.

Mary (sometimes called Mamie) L. Corlette, a member of First Friends Church in Cleveland, Ohio, and a student at Levi Lupton’s Alliance Ohio Bible School, receives the baptism in the Spirit and speaks in tongues. In Whittier, California, Henry Prentiss is arrested again, this time the charge is vagrancy. A trial by jury is set for January 5, 1907.

Florence Crawford travels to Portland, Oregon, where she holds meetings in the St. John’s Gospel Mission. The Azusa Street missionaries, the Meads and the Shidlers, board the S. S. Guelph and travel to Lobito Bay, Angola.

Parham returns to Zion, Illinois, in time for the New Year’s Eve festivities. In Portland, Oregon, Florence Crawford is issued a citation for the mistreatment of his daughter. The charge is she has not been enrolled in school, and she is attending too many church services. In Dunn, North Carolina, Gaston Barnabas Cashwell, recently baptized in the Holy Spirit at the Azusa Street Mission in Los Angeles, California, begins to hold Apostolic Faith meetings in an old warehouse. They will last a month. As a result, several existing Holiness denominations will become Pentecostal denominations.

Six months after leaving the Azusa Street Mission, the Garrs arrive in Calcutta, India.

Florence Crawford is told by Judge Frazier that she must enroll her daughter rin school by January 4 or leave town, and she is forbidden to let Mildred attend the evening meetings. Florence Crawford argues with the judge.

Florence Crawford does not enroll her daughter in school, claiming she has a cold. A probation officer is sent to investigate. Crawford informs the probation officer that she intends to leave town as soon as her daughter recovers. Florence Crawford continues to preach for 3 more days, reporting that 38 people received the baptism in the Spirit, and, then, she boards a train for Los Angeles, California. In Cleveland, Ohio, J.E. Sawders, who received the baptism in the Spirit the week before under Ivey Campbell, begins a week of meetings at First Friends Church. All goes well at first, but by the week’s end, problems arise.

Henry Prentiss argues his case in the Whittier, California, court. The jury deliberates, but is unable to reach a verdict. The trial is declared a mistrial. A retrial is scheduled for January 10.

Pastor Malone of First Friends Church calls a special, executive business meeting to discuss the ministry and message of J.E. Sawders after the Sunday morning service. They set up a task force to study his ministry the next day. In Seattle, Washington, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Junk are ministering in a local congregation. She will die shortly thereafter, but Thomas Junk will become an independent Apostolic Faith missionary in Northern China.

Charles Parham attends a service at First Friends Church, then, stands and tells the congregation that J. E. Sawders, Ivey Campbell, and the Azusa Street Mission have it all wrong. The real gift of tongues is never accompanied by spasm, jerks, or foolishness. It is a dignified gift. He asks them to let him show them the real “Pentecost,” but they are no longer interested. In Whittier, California, Judge Gidley dismisses the charges against Henry Prentiss.

The revival breaks out in Oslo, Norway, after T.B. Barratt begins preaching there.

Glenn Cook begins meetings in Indianapolis, Indiana. Among those in the Apostolic Faith Mission congregation are the Reynolds family and the Flower family.

Edward (sometimes called Joseph) McCauley leads a group in street meetings at First and Pine Streets in Long Beach, California.

C.H. Mason, J. A. Jeter, and J.D. Young arrive at the Azusa Street Mission from the Church of God in Christ. In Liberia, the entire Batman family, Mrs. Cook, and Mrs. Lee all perish from malaria or black water fever.

Edward and Molly McCauley, A.C. Conway, Mack Jonas, and Floyd Bailey are arrested while holding a street meeting at First and Locust Streets in Long Beach, California, in violation of a new statute designed to stop their street meetings.

McCauley and his group are brought before Judge Hart. He hears the case and decides to pass sentence the next day.

Judge Hart dismisses the case saying the charges are too indefinite.

Pastor William H. Durham (from Chicago) attends the Azusa Street Mission where he is baptized in the Spirit. He will return to Chicago where he will establish several Pentecostal missions in the city.

Pastor Seymour calls for a business meeting. The mission elects officers, adopts a constitution, and agrees to purchase the Mission from First African Methodist Episcopal Church. The purchase price is $15,000 and they put $4,000 down.

The Alliance Monthly Meeting of Friends votes to remove Levi Lupton from its membership.

Florence Crawford leaves her family in Highland Park and travels to Oakland, San Francisco, San Jose, and Santa Rosa, California, for 6 weeks of meetings.

Joshua W. Sykes has established a group in East Los Angeles, California, called the Apostolic Church. He adopts the teachings of the Azusa Street Mission, but he insists baptism into his congregation must be done in the name of Christ, instead of through the traditional Trinitarian formula.

The Azusa Street Mission celebrates the first anniversary of the revival.

The county clerk of Los Angeles, California, certifies the Articles of Incorporation for the Apostolic Faith Mission.

Thomas Hezmalhalch, J.O. Lehman, Celia Smock, and Elnora Hall arrive in Indianapolis, Indiana, to add in the work of the Apostolic Faith Mission.

Rachel Sizelove, Clara Lum, Mae Mayo, Tom Anderson, and R.J. Scott seek out a site for a possible camp meeting. They choose the Arroyo Seco, a canyon with a creek that runs from the San Gabriel Mountains above Pasadena, to Los Angeles, California. They break into Seymour’s Monday morning leaders’ meeting and receive approval to undertake the camp meeting.

April 30-May 1, 1907, Frank Bartleman holds meetings in Conneaut, Ohio, before moving on to Cleveland, Youngstown, Akron, New Castle, and Columbus.

Pastor William J. Seymour begins a 5-month trip to Texas, Indiana, Illinois, and Virginia. Glenn Cook travels to Memphis, Tennessee, to hold meetings.

May 1907, Frank L. Cummings is ordained to the ministry in the Church of God in Christ. Cummings was in one of the original Asberry prayer meetings with William J. Seymour. “The Apostolic Faith” is published in a run of 40,000 copies.

Florence Crawford arrives in Portland, Oregon, where she conducts meetings from May 5 through July 16.

Tom Hezmalhalch leaves Indiana for Zion, Illinois. J.O. Lehman will follow him later.

Glenn Cook leaves Indianapolis, Indiana for Lamont, Oklahoma, to hold meetings lasting until the end of the month. Edward McCauley baptizes 50 new converts at Terminal Island, California. HIs congregation in Long Beach, California, is growing.

The first Apostolic Faith camp meeting under the auspices of the Azusa Street Mission and in cooperation with other local Pentecostal missions begins. It is held in the Arroyo Seco, which runs between Pasadena and Los Angeles, California. Under the direction of Robert J. Scott, this camp meeting will run through September.

Edward McCauley is arrested during the evening service for disturbing the peace. William J. Seymour and the Cummings family arrive in Indianapolis, Indiana. The Cummings family is en route to Africa to serve as Azusa Street missionaries. Seymour will spend the next 2 weeks in Indianapolis.

Edward McCauley is tried before the court and found guilty. He is given a choice between a $10 fine or 10 days in jail.

The press reveals that the police chief had been sending undercover officers to Seymour’s meetings as a result of anonymous complaints. They are criticized for not holding the color line.

Levi Lupton opens a Pentecostal camp meeting on his property in Alliance, Ohio. E.W. and Mary Vinton, George Berg, Frank Bartleman, Ivey Campbell, and H.W. Allen, all from the Azusa Street Mission, participate.

Glenn Cook is interviewed by Captain Asch of the Indianapolis Police Department about possible criminal activity. No charges are filed.

Pastor William J. Seymour, aided by Glenn Cook, holds a baptismal service in Full Creek, California, near the Indiana Avenue Bridge. Two hundred people attend and 13 are baptized. Among those baptized was Bennett F. Lawrence, who would later write the first history of Pentecostalism, entitled, “The Apostolic Faith Restored” (St. Louis, Mo.: Gospel Publishing House, 1916). The crowd took the streetcar to Murphy Hall where they conducted a feet washing and Communion service.

A gang of young men invade the Lupton camp meeting with “squirt guns” filled with diluted sulfuric acid. The clothes are burned off some people, and many receive painful burns. No one is arrested.

Levi Lupton forms a new group called the Apostolic Faith Association. C.A. McKinney, the pastor of the South Street Mission in Akron, Ohio, is elected vice president. Frank Bartleman and J.H. King become board members.

Lupton and several others travel to Columbus, Ohio, where they incorporate the Apostolic Faith Association of Alliance. Lupton takes the title of Apostle.

Late June, William J. Seymour leaves Indianapolis, Indiana.

Florence Crawford has been conducting meetings in Portland, Oregon, on behalf of the Azusa Street Mission. That morning her daughter, Mildred, falls and breaks her arm. In keeping with Florence Crawford’s wishes, her husband Frank Crawford refuses medical attention for their daughter.

Concerned neigbors call the Humane Society, which is responsible for child welfare, and demand an investigation into Mildred Crawford’s condition.

Threated with arrest, Florence Crawford is summoned home, while Frank Crawford agrees to have Mildred treated, but only by Dr. Henry S. Keyes, who has converted to the Apostolic Faith.

Mildred Crawford’s arm is finally set.

Florence Crawford returns to Los Angeles, California.

At the Apostolic Faith camp meeting in the Arroyo Seco, Will C. Trotter, director of the Union Rescue Mission in Los Angeles, California, announces he has received the baptism in the Holy Spirit and will cast his lot with the Apostolic Faith Movement. Charles Parham is arrested in San Antonio, Texas, on charges of engaging in homosexual activity.

The board of directors of the Union Rescue Mission in Los Angeles, California, call in Will Trotter and ask him to explain himself. He tells them of his commitment to the Apostolic Faith. They declare his position to be vacant as of August 1, and advertise for a new director.

T.J. and Annie McIntosh arrive in Macao, China, to serve as Apostolic Faith missionaries after travelling from the Azusa Street Mission. In Greenwich, Connecticut, Lucy Leatherman and Adolph Rosa hold an Apostolic Faith meeting in which locals physically attack them.

Reuben A. Torrey, president of the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago, preaches at the Methodist camp meeting in Huntington Beach, California, on the subject of the baptism in the Spirit. He strongly attacks the claims of the Azusa Street Mission.

Will Trotter leads the evening meeting of the Apostolic Faith camp meeting.

Fourteen-year-old Mabel Childs has typhoid. Her parents, who are attending the Apostolic Faith camp meeting, refuse medical attention. The sheriff’s department begins to monitor the situation, claiming the child is the subject of terrible neglect.

The Health Department and the Humane Society debate how to respond to the Mabel Childs’ case, but take a wait-and-see position.

Early September, Florence Crawford leaves Los Angeles, California, and begins meetings in Santa Barbara, California. Pastor Seymour returns from his long trip.

M.L. Ryan, leading a group of 13 adults and 7 children, sails from Seattle, Washington, to Japan on the steamship “Minnesota.”

Bernt Berntsen travels to the Azusa Street Mission and receives the baptism in the Spirit. He becomes an ardent, independent Apostolic Faith missionary in Northern China where he leads his wife and children into the Baptism. They continue their work there through, at least, 1916.

M.L. Ryan’s party lands in Yokohama harbor in Japan.

Longtime supporter of the Peniel Mission (a Holiness mission), George B. Studd, breaks with Peniel because they do not support the Azusa Street revival. Even though George Studd has not sought for the baptism in the Holy Spirit, he agrees with what the Azusa Street Mission is doing.

The Garrs arrive in Hong Kong and set up a missionary rest home at 4 Ladder Street.

In November, Florence Crawford leads a delegation– Mildred (her daughter), Will Trotter, James R. Conlee, and Sister Neal– on a strip to Winnipeg and Toronto Canada and Minneapolis, Minnesota. While Crawford is in Minneapolis, she concludes God is directing her to return to Portland, Oregon, to establish a permanent, independent work.

Rosa Harmon sends a letter saying that she, Edward, and Molly McCauley have arrived in Monrovia, Liberia, where they will become missionaries.

George B. Studd begins attending the Azusa Street Mission. He takes his friend, Cecil H. Polhill, a missionary currently on his way home (England) from a year of missionary service in China and Tibet with the China Inland Mission, to the Azusa Street Mission.

Pastor William J. Seymour scandalizes some of his members when he takes an offering to pay off the mortgage on the Mission. This is the first offering the mission has ever taken. Cecil Polhill gives $1500 (about $7,300 in 1908), about half of the cost of the property, to clear the mortgage.

Cecil Polhill is baptized in the Spirit. On his return to England, he will form the Pentecostal Missionary Union and will aid the sending of many missionaries from the English Pentecostal movement.

Henry Prentiss creates a disturbance at the Allen Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Indianapolis, Indiana, when its pastor announces that Prentiss will speak on the gift of tongues.

Henry Prentiss is arrested the next evening while preaching along with two friends. The next day, his friends each pay a $50 fine plus court costs, but Prentiss asks for a jury trial.

Henry Prentiss goes on trial at 2 p.m. before Judge Wallon. During the trial, he is fined $25 plus court costs for being in contempt of court. In the end, he is found guilty. He pays $65 in fines and fees.

Azusa Street missionaries Tom and Charlotte Hezmalhalch, John J. and Jenny Lake and their children, and Jacob and Lily Lehman board a train in Indianapolis, Indiana, for St. John’s Newfoundland.

The Hezmalhalches, Lakes, and Lehmans accompanied by Ida Sackett and the Schneiderman family, travel to Liverpool, England, aboard the “Express of Ireland.”

April 5-12, The Azusa Street Mission conducts special anniversary services. The place is packed.

George Studd, accompanied by Richard Asberry and Joseph A. Warren, using money recently received from Cecil Polhill, pays off the Azusa Street Mission’s mortgage at Security Savings Back in Los Angeles, California.

In May, the 13th issue of “The Apostolic Faith,” originating in Los Angeles, California, is published. The issue contains the classic masthead and announces the next issues will be published from The Apostolic Faith camp meeting, Portland, Oregon. It is the last of the undisputed issues to be published for the Azusa Street Mission.

William J. Seymour and Jennie Evans Moore are married in a private ceremony performed by Edward S. Lee. Mattie Lee and Richard Ashberry act as witnesses. Following the wedding, Clara Lum leaves the Azusa Street Mission and moves to Portland, Oregon, taking “The Apostolic Faith” newspaper subscriber list with her.

The Hezmalhalches, Lakes, Lehmans, and Ida Sackett arrive in Cape Town, South Africa. They hold services in that city for about a week.

May 14-18, George Studd writes and publishes a pamphlet entitled, “My Convictions.” He describes the Apostolic Faith Movement in Los Angeles, California, as a “mighty work of God.”

The Hezmalhach, Lake, Lehman, and Sackett party arrives in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Azusa Street’s South-African party begins meetings among the natives, and report roughly 500 present at their opening service.

June 1908, an issue of “The Apostolic Faith” newspaper, allegedly published on behalf of the Azusa Street Mission in Los Angeles, California, appears. It does not have the traditional masthead.

July and August 1908, an issue of “The Apostolic Faith” is published. It has the original masthead, but Portland, Oregon, is named as the city of origin.

J.W. Sykes, H.A. Garrison, and Mary Taylor are arrested and arraigned for disturbing the peace with their meetings at 2815 West 10th Street in Los Angeles, California. The trial is set for August 3.

The court dismisses the case against Sykes, Garrison, and Taylor when no witnesses appear to testify against them. The court had given the witnesses the wrong time or date for the trial.

George Studd leaves the Azusa Street Mission and begins to attend the Upper Room Mission. The Upper Room Mission has offered him the opportunity to lead their daily noon meetings and give Bible studies.

After holding evening street meetings for 2 weeks at the corner of Marchessault and Juan Streets in Los Angeles’ Chinatown, the Apostolic Faith people are attacked by a group of Chinese who pelt them with rotten eggs.

The Apostolic Faith Mission of South Africa begins a paper called “God’s Latter Rain.”

John Reid disembarks from his ship in Monrovia, Liberia, and finds Edward McCauley with a congregation of 145 people whom he has converted and baptized. Across the front of the church is a sign reading, “Apostolic Faith Mission.”

In 1909, Hector and Sigrid McLean, China Inland Mission missionaries in the Szechwan Province of Western China, arrive in Los Angeles, California. They attend the Azusa Street Mission and are baptized in the Spirit. They leave the China Inland Mission and become independent Apostolic missionaries until their retirement in 1927.

Ned Caswell writes in his diary, “Seymour is fatter. Crowd was smaller, but still good.”

Ned Caswell attends the Azusa Street Mission again and says, “At Azusa St. there was a small crowd, Seymour and wife leading, and not doing much.” The big days of the revival in the Mission seem to be at an end.

Edward McCauley’s work in Monrovia, Liberia, now stands at 154.

Mid-September 1909, Frank Bartleman attends the Azusa Street Mission after an absences of 6 weeks. He reports: “Azusa had lost out greatly since we left. ‘How the mighty have fallen’ came to me most forcibly. But the Spirit came upon three of us mightily in prayer one evening there. He assured us He was going to bring the power back to Azusa Mission as at the beginning.”

Ned Caswell records: “This afternoon I was at Azusa St. The crowd was fair and the meeting tame, as the inner circle retired to have a private meeting of their own. I saw Owen (Irish) Lee and his wife, just down from Portland, where there seems to be considerable friction. I saw Seymour this week also.”

Jennie E. Seymour, Malinda Mitchell, and Edward W. Doak file articles of incorporation on behalf of the Azusa Street Mission in Portland, Oregon. They wish to establish a legal presence in Portland as an auxiliary body to the Apostolic Faith Mission of Los Angeles, California. Ned Caswell reports, “I was at Azusa St. a little while today. Only a few old-timers and not much stirring.”

January 1910, Lillian Keyes applies to become a Presbyterian missionary in China. She signs a pledge that she will no longer teach Apostolic Faith doctrine.

H.M. Turney resigns from the Apostolic Faith Mission of South Africa. One congregation he has pastored will become the seed to the Full Gospel Church of South Africa. A second one will become the base church for the Assemblies of God of South Africa.

Ansel H. and Henrietta Post arrive in Alexandria, Egypt, where they will minister until Ansel’s death. From 1916 onward, they are Assemblies of God missionaries.

June 1910, Thomas Junk is working in Tsao Hsien in Shan-Tung Province. He ministers to the extremely poor people of the region, collecting orphans and people without relatives. He provides for them during a time of famine.

Ned Caswell writes, “At Azusa St. tonight a young, colored man preached and there was no regular testifying. What a change from the former Glory! The Seymours were not there.”

“Azusa St. is awfully dead; the Seymours are not there.” Ned Caswell.

Ned Caswell writes, “At Azusa St., an ignorant colored man was holding forth, alleging if people could not work miracles they ‘had a means that they lived and are dead.’ I called him down right in the midst of his sermon. They probably have an ax for me now. It was a spiritless gathering.”

William H. Durham arrives in Los Angeles, California. He attempts to convince Elmer K. Fisher to abandon his view of sanctification as a second definite work of grace, and adopt Durham’s ‘Finished Work’ theology. Fisher refuses.

In Seymour’s absence, William Durham begins a series of meetings at the Azusa Street Mission.

The Azusa Street Mission is packed with worshipers.

Durham attempts to take over the Azusa Street Mission by asking the worshipers to side with him, against Pastor Seymour.

Seymour gathers the duty elected board of trustees to see what can be done to stop Durham’s coup. They decide to padlock the Mission’s doors. Durham is angered.

Durham opens the Full Gospel Assembly just blocks from both the Azusa Street Mission and the Upper Room Mission. Both missions suffer huge losses to Durham.

William Durham dies of tuberculosis at age 39, leaving a wife and two small children.

The Apostolic Faith World Wide Camp Meeting begins in the Arroyo Seco between Pasadena and Los Angeles, California. Newspapers report 2,000 in attendance for the opening evening service. The meeting runs to June 1.

Daniel Awrey reports preaching “to a large congregation in the Apostolic Faith Church” in Monrovia, Liberia, undoubtedly the church of Edward and Molly McCauley.

April 1914, the Assemblies of God is formed in Hot Springs, Arkansas. It brings together people from the Azusa Street Mission, from Parham’s Apostolic Faith Movement, from C.H. Mason’s Church of God in Christ, from the Christian and Missionary Alliance, and from independent Apostolic Faith groups in the upper Midwest.

1915, Seymour compiles “The Doctrines and Discipline of the Azusa Street Mission.” It closely parallels the “Doctrines and Discipline” that John Wesley compiled for use in the Methodist Church, and the statement of faith is strongly rooted in the 39 articles of the Anglican Church.

In Los Angeles on September 28, 1922, William J. Seymour passed away from a heart attack. Faithful to the end, his last words were “I love my Jesus so.” He is burried in the Evergreen Cemetary in Los Angeles.

Early July 1931, the Azusa Street Mission is demolished.

Jennie Evans Seymour dies. She is buried in the Evergreen Cemetery in Los Angeles, California.

65 years after Seymour’s first sermon at Azusa street, it was estimated that there were 63 million pentecostals around the world!

In 2000, the prevalence of Pentecostals in America continues to grow. The map on the right shows the number of charismatic churches across the nation.

As of 2014, there are 631 million Pentecostals, making Pentecostalism the largest group of Christians next to Catholism. Currently, 1 in 4 Christians identify as Pentecostal and the numbers continue to grow. This spark was ignited a little over 100 years ago at 312 Azusa Street, Los Angeles, California, and Pentecostalism has become the fastest-growing religion in the world!

Since the beginning of the Azusa Street Mission in 1905, people have flocked to 312 Azusa Street in Los Angeles. Even after the building was demolished and the charisma continues to spread, the physical address has become a pilgrimage site. Each year, hundreds of people from around the world come to 312 Azusa Street for spiritual reflection and connection.