How Pentecostalism Came to Ohio: 1906-1907

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PENTECOST IN OHIO

• How Pentecostalism Came to Ohio 1906-1907

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Early Pentecostal revivals 1901-07

• Topeka1901 Charles F. Parham frames the
  Pentecostal doctrine of Spirit baptism with
  speaking in tongues as the Bible evidence.
• Houston1905 Parham and the members of the
  Apostolic Faith Movement evangelize in Texas,
  Oklahoma, Kansas.
• Los Angeles1906 Azusa Street Revival William J.
  Seymour news goes around the world THE
  APOSTOLIC FAITH (L.A.), EVANGELISTS (e.g. Ivey
  Campbell)

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Early Pentecostal revivals 1906-7

• Alliance, OH
• Zion City
• (Topeka) Nyack
• Memphis Dunn, NC
• Los Angeles
• Houston

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Ground already prepared for Pentecostalism in Ohio

• Branches of the Christian and Missionary
  Alliance, founded by A. B. Simpson
• Holiness churchesfor example, among some Quakers
  with holiness theology in the Ohio Yearly Meeting
  of Friends
• Paramount concern spiritual enablement for the
  evangelization of the world the restoration of
  the spirituality of the New Testament church

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Ohio Branches of the Christian and Missionary
Alliance (CMA)

• Toledo Cleveland
• Akron Youngstown New Castle
• Findlay Norwalk
• Flushing Pittsburgh
• Dayton Columbus Cambridge

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Evangelist Ivey G. Campbell(1874-1918)

• East Liverpool
• Los Angeles

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Campbells itinerary

• Arrives in Los Angeles
• Baptized in HS at Azusa Street
• Returns to East Liverpool (11/06)
• Ministry in Akron in December 1906
• Other revival services follow in Cleveland
  Springboro and Pittsburgh, PA
• Featured speaker at Pentecostal camp meeting at
  Alliance, OH in June 1907

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CMA leaders in Ohio who become Pentecostal

• Rev. A. S. Copley Cambridge founds Grace and
  Glory co-edits The Pentecost with J. Roswell
  Flower in Kansas City
• Rev. W. A. Cramer Cleveland Pentecostal who
  remains in the Alliance
• Rev. Daniel W. Kerr Dayton joins AG later
  pastor of First Pentecostal Church in Cleveland
  founds CBC and models it and Southern California
  Bible College (Vanguard) and Glad Tidings Bible
  Institute (Bethany) after the Missionary Training
  Institute at Nyack, NY

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CMA leaders in Ohio who become Pentecostal

• Rev. Claudius A. McKinney Akron joins AG
• formerly CMA missionary in Congo (c.1895-1900)
  preaches in FindlayT. K. Leonard baptized in HS
  and later starts Bible school
• Rev. David W. Myland Columbus becomes
  independent Pentecostal ordains J. Roswell
  Flower in Plainfield, Indiana
• Rev. Etta Wurmser Norwalk starts Bible and
  Missionary Training School in Norwalk moves
  school to Findlay in 1914 leader in Natl and
  Intl Pentecostal Missionary Union has following
  in Bucyrus, Fremont, Mansfield, Tiffin, Sandusky,
  Elyria, Lake Erie Islands.

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1907 Alliance, OH camp meeting

• Levi R. Lupton. A holiness-Quaker pastor and
  evangelist
• Attends Campbells meetings in Akron baptized in
  HS
• Missionary Home at Alliance HQ, Bible school
• Sponsors June 1907 camp meeting
• Perhaps 600 to 700 in attendance the tents are
  mixed interracial meetings

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1907 camp meeting

• Pentecostals come from near and far to attend the
  meetings, including some from Canada
• Prominent attendees include J. Roswell Flower,
  Joseph H. King, and Frank Bartleman
• Major impact on spread of Pentecostalism in Ohio
  and the mid-east
• 1908 camp meeting issues a missionary
  manifesto a year later, Lupton and others
  organize Pentecostal Missionary Union, first
  American Pentecostal mission agency

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Recommended reading

• McGee, Gary B. Levi Lupton A Forgotten Pioneer
  of Early Pentecostalism. In Faces of Renewal,
  ed. Paul Elbert, 192-208. Peabody, Mass.
  Hendrickson Publishers, 1988.
• Nienkirchen, Charles W. A. B. Simpson and the
  Pentecostal Movement. Peabody, Mass Hendrickson
  Publishers, 1992.
• Owen, Michael G. Preparing Students for the
  First Harvest, 1905-1935 Five Early Ohio Bible
  SchoolsForerunners of Todays Colleges.
  Assemblies of God Heritage 9 (Winter 1989-1990)
  3-5, 16-19.
• Robeck, Jr., Cecil M. The Azusa Street Mission
  Revival. Nashville Nelson Reference and
  Electronic, 2006.