1898
Charles Fox Parham opened Bethel Healing Home at 335 SW Jackson Street in Topeka, Kansas.10 It was Charles’ wife Sarah Parham who named the school ‘Bethel’.11
1899
May 3rd, 1899.12 Bethel Bible School, Topeka Kansas. Today this school still exists as Apostolic Faith Bible College in Baxter Springs Kansas.13
1899
Charles Fox Parham establishes the Apostolic Faith14 paper at a bi-monthly publication.15 Parham was the editor until his death in 1929.16 In 1929, his wife Sarah E. Parham becomes editor.17 Another paper of the same name is printed from by Florence Crawford first at Azusa Maria Woodworth-Etter Street Mission in Los Angeles California and then in 1908 in Portland, Oregon. Clara Lum is the editor of the second publication.
1900
John Alexander Dowie announced plans for the establishment of Zion, Illinois: a city to be free from the evil influences of modern society. This community grew to around 6,000 during the following years.18 Among the visitors that year was Charles F. Parham.19
1900
Revival in Missouri
Apostle Charles H. Mason established a Church of God in Christ (COGIC) in Memphis, and by 1904 he was pastoring four churches: St. Paul in Lexington, Saints Home and Dyson Street in Memphis, and a COGIC in Conway, Arkansas.20 At this time the COGIC was only a
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http://www.apostolicarchives.com/historical-timeline.html Apostolic Faith Bible College. History. http://www.afbiblecollege.com/#/welcome-to-afbc 12 A Voice Crying in the Wilderness. Charles F. Parham. 1910. Pg. 29. 13 Apostolic Faith Bible College. History. http://www.afbiblecollege.com/#/welcome-to-afbc 14 The Life of Charles Parham. Sarah Parham. Pg. 39. "American Pentecost" by Ted Olsen, p. 12 15 African American Holiness Pentecostal Movement. Sherry S. Dupree. Page 128. 16 Ibid. Parham. Chapter I. 17 The Life of Charles Parham. Sarah Parham. Chapter XII. The Lord Confirmed the Word. Pg. 117. 18 E. L. Blumhofer art. 'International Dictionary of Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements' 2002.; Gordon Lindsay, John Alexander Dowie,' 1980 reprint. 19 The Life of Charles Parham. Sarah Parham. Chapter 7. The Latter Rain. Pg. 67. 20 http://emanuelministries.org/new_page_19.htm 11
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