Pentecostalism - Gayle

By gayleclaudiaa

  • National Holiness Association forms in Vineland, New Jersey

  • Isaiah Reed forms the largest holiness association in America, the Iowa Holiness Association

  • A. B. Simpson founds the Christian and Missionary Alliance to promote the Holiness “Fourfold Gospel”

  • B. H. Irwin teaches a third blessing “baptism of Fire,” splitting the Iowa Holiness Association and forming the Iowa Fire-Baptized Holiness Association

  • Schearer Schoolhouse Fire-Baptized Holiness revival experiences tongues

  • Charles H. Mason and C.T. Jones form the Church of God in Christ in Lexington, Mississippi

  • First congregation of the Pentecostal Holiness Church in Goldsboro, North Carolina

  • Agnes Ozman speaks in tongues in Topeka. Charles Parham calls tongues the “Bible evidence” for baptism in the Spirit

  • First congregation of the Church of God formed at Camp Creek, North Carolina

  • William Seymour accepts Pentecostal doctrine from Parham in Houston, Texas

  • First General Assembly of the Church of God (Cleveland, Tenn.)

  • Azusa Street Revival; Pentecostalism becomes global under Seymour’s leadership

    1906–1909

  • T. B. Barrett opens Pentecostal meetings in Oslo. Begins Pentecostal movements in Scandinavia, England, and Germany

  • Florence Crawford founds the Apostolic Faith Church in Portland, Oregon

  • G. B. Cashwell spreads Pentecostalism in the South

  • John G. Lake begins South African Apostolic Faith Mission

  • Church of God (Cleveland, Tenn.) accepts Pentecostalism under A. J. Tomlinson

  • German evangelicals condemn Pentecostals in the “Berlin Declaration”

  • Luigi Francescon and Giacomo Lombardi begin Italian Pentecostal movements in the U.S., Italy, Argentina, and Brazil

  • The Assemblies of God formed in Hot Springs, Arkansas

  • The Oneness Movement splits the Assemblies of God

  • The Oneness Movement splits the Assemblies of God

  • Pentecostal Assemblies of the World incorporated

  • Mary Rumsey opens first Pentecostal missions to Korea and Japan

  • American Pentecostal churches accepted as charter members of the National Association of Evangelicals

  • Several mergers produce the United Pentecostal Church (Missouri)

  • Healing crusades begin under William Branham and Oral Roberts

  • A census was carried out by Pentecostal denominations published in 2020

    Africa, the Redeemed Christian Church of God, has 14,000 churches and 5 million members
    North America, the Assemblies of God USA has 12,986 churches and 1,810,093 members
    South America, the General Convention of the Assemblies of God has 12,000,000 members
    Asia, the Indonesian Bethel Church with 5,000 churches and 3,000,000 members
    Europe, the Assemblies of God of France has 658 churches and 40,000 members
    Oceania, the Australian Christian Churches has1,000 churches and 375,000 members

  • Denomination census in 2022

    According to a denomination census in 2022, the Assemblies of God, the largest Pentecostal denomination in the world, has 367,398 churches and 53,700,000 members worldwide. The other major international Pentecostal denominations are the Apostolic Church with 15,000,000 members, the Church of God (Cleveland) with 36,000 churches and 7,000,000 members, The Foursquare Church with 67,500 churches and 8,800,000 members