Pastor Smale Leaves 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.

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Lucy F. Farrow is Baptized in the Spirit

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.

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Parham in Kansas

Charles Parham begins meetings in Baxter Springs, Kansas.

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The Holy Spirit Provides a Church’s Direction

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.

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Seymour’s Preaching Impresses

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.

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The Holiness Church is Established

  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.

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Charles F. Parham in Houston

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

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Pastor Smale Desires to Bring the Revival to LA

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

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Seymour Worships

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

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Tent Meetings in Los Angeles

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.

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