Great Cloudof Witnesses

Session 9

Evan Roberts (1878 – 1951)

Moriah ChapelLoughor, Wales

Bethel Bible School at“Stone’s Folly,” Topeka, Kansas

Charles Parham(1873 – 1928)

Agnes Osman’s Moment

“I laid my hands upon her and prayed. I had scarcely repeated three dozen sentences when a glory fell upon her, a halo seemed to surround her head and face, and she began speaking the Chinese language and was unable to speak English for three days. When she tried to write in English to tell us her experience, she wrote in Chinese, copies of which we still have in newspapers printed at the time.” --Charles Parham

William Seymour (1870 – 1922)

Azusa Street MissionLos Angeles (in the 1920s?)

Eyewitness Report“Soon the meetings were running day and night. The place was packed out nightly…. There were far more white people than colored coming. The ‘color line’ was washed away in the blood [of Christ]…. The Spirit was very sensitive, tender as a dove…. We knew the moment we had grieved the Spirit, by an unkind thought or word. “… Brother Seymour generally sat behind two empty shoe boxes, one on top of the other. He usually kept his head inside the top one during the meeting, in prayer. There was no pride there. The services ran almost continuously. Seeking souls could be found under the power almost any hour, night and day. The place was never closed or empty. The people came to meet God.”

On the Other Hand …

Azusa’s Leadership Team

Five Marks of Azusa

1. A great hunger for God2. A love across barriers of race and

class3. A commitment to God’s Word4. A dedication to evangelism and

missions5. A commitment to restoring the New

Testament church