1910
January. After selling his own possessions to finance the trip, R. M. Evans joined the Barrs in the Bahama Islands. His wife and the young Carl M. Padgett accompanied him. Thus, Evans became the first Church of God missionary to take the gospel from homeland to foreign soil.439
1910
William Howard Durham begins "Finished Work" movement in Chicago. ‘Durham was a mentor to a whole generation of Pentecostal leaders: Louis Francescon, who preached among Italians in North America, Argentina, Brazil, and Italy; F.A. Sandgren, a pioneer among Scandinavians in the Midwest, one of them Daniel Berg, a Swedish Pentecostal missionary in Brazil; Andrew Urshan, a leader W. H. Durham in the Persian and Assyrian; Andrew H. Argue, pastor in Canada; Eudorus N. Bell, a leader in the Assemblies of God; Aimee Semple McPherson, evangelist and church founder; John C. Sinclair, pastor in Chicago and church founder; and Frank Ewart and Howard A. Goss, leaders in the Oneness Pentecostalism.”440 Like most of the Apostolic Faith movement leaders Durham was a staunch Congregationalist and against denominationalism.441 E.N. Bell received the baptism of the Holy Spirit at Durham’s church in Chicago
. 1910
1910
February 14, 1910. H. M. Turney resigned from the Apostolic Faith Mission in South Africa. He turned his church in Pretoria over to Archibald Cooper. That church would become the first of a new denomination; the Full Gospel Church.442 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.443 Alice Eveline Luce (1873-1955) church planter in India when she sought and allegedly received here Pentecostal experience in 1910. Later she established the Berean Bible Institute in San Diego for the purpose of
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Conn, Charles W (2008) [1955], Like a Mighty Army. Riss, R.M. "Durham, William" in The New International Dictionary of Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements, 2002. pp. 594-595. 441 Hollenweger, Walter. The Pentecostals 442 Roebuck. Pg. 279. 443 http://www.312azusa.com/timeline/h-m-turney-in-south-africa 440
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