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Tuesday, April 25, 2006
Azusa Street East Centennial Celebration Being Planned for End of 2006
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Bethany, OK. April 24, 2006. A special centennial celebration has been set for December 31 2006-January 4 2007 to commemorate what has come to be called the Azusa Street East Revival. This pentecostal revival, in Dunn, NC, led by G.B. Cashwell, lasted for three weeks into January 1907 with long term effects throughout the Southeastern region of the U.S.
In November 1906 Gaston B. Cashwell, a white evangelist with the Pentecostal Holiness Church of North Carolina, visited Azusa Street, and his experience brought major changes to southern Holiness churches. At the Azusa Street Mission, Cashwell confronted his racial prejudice and asked William Seymour to lay hands on him and pray that he would receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit.
William Seymour announced in The Apostolic Faith that "Bro. G.B. Cashwell who came from North Carolina for his Pentecost, has returned on his way rejoicing to carry the good news of the Pentecost to the hungry souls there." In December 1906 Cashwell led a three-week revival meeting in an old tobacco warehouse in Dunn, NC, that introduced Pentecost to the entire region.
Over the next two years, Cashwell was instrumental in leading hundreds into Pentecost, including M.M. Pinson, who later became one of the first executive presbyters of the Assemblies of God; A.J. Tomlinson, who founded the Church of God (Cleveland, TN), N.J. Holmes of Greenville, SC, founder of Holmes College of the Bible, and J.H. King.
As a result of Cashwell's revival, the Holiness Church of NC and the Fire-Baptized Holiness Church, which shared common theologies and visions, merged in Falcon, NC, just a few miles from the Dunn Revival site, to form the Pentecostal Holiness Church. Over the following decades, the new denomination consolidated its theology and expanded to other parts of the country. In the 1950s, the IPHC joined the National Association of Evangelicals. It was instrumental in the formation of the Pentecostal and Charismatic Churches of North America, a racially inclusive organization which grew out of the Memphis Miracle in October 1994.
The Azusa Street East Revival was the spark that launched a small, rural church into an international ministry with more than 3.7 million members in more than ninety countries.
Contact Information:
Joe Iaquinta, Director of Communications
405.787.7110 x3101
CommNet@iphc.org
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Bethany, OK. April 24, 2006. A special centennial celebration has been set for December 31 2006-January 4 2007 to commemorate what has come to be called the Azusa Street East Revival. This pentecostal revival, in Dunn, NC, led by G.B. Cashwell, lasted for three weeks into January 1907 with long term effects throughout the Southeastern region of the U.S.
In November 1906 Gaston B. Cashwell, a white evangelist with the Pentecostal Holiness Church of North Carolina, visited Azusa Street, and his experience brought major changes to southern Holiness churches. At the Azusa Street Mission, Cashwell confronted his racial prejudice and asked William Seymour to lay hands on him and pray that he would receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit.
William Seymour announced in The Apostolic Faith that "Bro. G.B. Cashwell who came from North Carolina for his Pentecost, has returned on his way rejoicing to carry the good news of the Pentecost to the hungry souls there." In December 1906 Cashwell led a three-week revival meeting in an old tobacco warehouse in Dunn, NC, that introduced Pentecost to the entire region.
Over the next two years, Cashwell was instrumental in leading hundreds into Pentecost, including M.M. Pinson, who later became one of the first executive presbyters of the Assemblies of God; A.J. Tomlinson, who founded the Church of God (Cleveland, TN), N.J. Holmes of Greenville, SC, founder of Holmes College of the Bible, and J.H. King.
As a result of Cashwell's revival, the Holiness Church of NC and the Fire-Baptized Holiness Church, which shared common theologies and visions, merged in Falcon, NC, just a few miles from the Dunn Revival site, to form the Pentecostal Holiness Church. Over the following decades, the new denomination consolidated its theology and expanded to other parts of the country. In the 1950s, the IPHC joined the National Association of Evangelicals. It was instrumental in the formation of the Pentecostal and Charismatic Churches of North America, a racially inclusive organization which grew out of the Memphis Miracle in October 1994.
The Azusa Street East Revival was the spark that launched a small, rural church into an international ministry with more than 3.7 million members in more than ninety countries.
Contact Information:
Joe Iaquinta, Director of Communications
405.787.7110 x3101
CommNet@iphc.org
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