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Early Pentecostalism in Springfield, Missouri 2017-18 Early Pentecostalism in Springfield, Missouri 2017-18 Bible Quiz Alexander Vazakas Volumes 37 & 38 D. W. Kerr Flower Pentecostal Heritage Center Published annually by The Flower Pentecostal Heritage Center 1445 N. Boonville Ave. Springfield, MO 65802-1894 USA Phone: 417-862-1447, ext. 4400 Fax: 417-862-8558 Toll Free: 877-840-5200 Email: [email protected] Website: www.iFPHC.org ISSN 0896-4395 2017-18 Vol. 37 & 38 PUBLISHED BY THE FLOWER PENTECOSTAL HERITAGE CENTER Darrin J. Rodgers EDITOR AND DIRECTOR 4 The Sparkling Fountain: Glenn W. Gohr Early Pentecostalism REFERENCE ARCHIVIST AND COPY EDITOR in Springfield, Missouri Robert E. Sears Revivals in this Ozarks city laid the foundation for ministries ARCHIVIST that made a worldwide impact. Joyce E. Lee BY GLENN W. GOHR AND DARRIN J. RODGERS ASSISTANT ARCHIVIST Ruthie Edgerly Oberg ADMINISTRATIVE COORDINATOR 14 A History of Bible Quiz in Joshua D. Thomassen the Assemblies of God HERITAGE DESIGNER This ministry has promoted biblical literacy among young people for over 50 years. Wayne E. Warner FOUNDING EDITOR BY ROBERT CARTER AND RUTHIE EDGERLY OBERG Price: $8.00 Heritage is indexed in the ATLA 24 From Macedonia to Missouri: Religion Database, published by the American Theological Library The Journey of Association, 250 S. Wacker Dr., Alexander Vazakas 16th Flr., Chicago, IL 60606 A persecuted Greek Pentecostal immigrant who became E-mail: [email protected] an Assemblies of God educator. Web: www.atla.com BY MATTHEW A. PAUGH ATLA Religion Database (RDB) is available on CD-ROM and US MARC format directly from ATLA, as well as online through five aggregators: 32 Daniel Warren Kerr: OCLC’s FirstSearch, EBSCO Thinking, Speaking and Information Services, SilverPlatter, Ovid Technologies, and Cambridge Acting Scripturally Scientific Abstracts. Microfilm of The story of the pastor-theologian who drafted the Heritage is available from Theological Statement of Fundamental Truths. Research Exchange Network (TREN), P.O. Box 30183, 5420 N. E. Glisan, BY P. DOUGLAS CHAPMAN Portland, OR 97294-3183. Heritage on CD is available from the Flower Pentecostal Heritage Center. 42 Fortieth Anniversary of © Copyright 2018 by the Flower Pentecostal Gospel Publishing House, 1445 N. Boonville Ave., Heritage Center Springfield, MO 65802-1894 The largest Pentecostal archives in the world has been preserving and promoting the Pentecostal testimony since 1977. POSTMASTER: Send address change to Heritage, 1445 N. Boonville BY WAYNE E. WARNER AND DARRIN J. RODGERS Ave., Springfield, MO 65802-1894 2 From the Editor 53 Resources FRONT COVER: The new Springfield offices of the Assemblies of God and the Gospel Publishing House in 1918. From the Editor: Celebrating the Hispanic Assemblies of God Centennial By Darrin J. Rodgers The Assemblies of God marked one hundred years of Isabel Flores (a male Mexican- American pastor) and Henry C. Ball ministry in 2014. Another important anniversary will be (an Anglo missionary) spearheaded celebrated August 1-3, 2018, in Houston—the centen- the January 1918 convention, which nial of the 1918 organizational convention of Hispanic was held in Kingsville, Texas. At the time, the Pentecostal Assemblies of God churches and ministers. movement among Hispanics was in its infancy and consisted primarily The Assemblies of God minis- John Preston, Dr. Florence Murcutt, of scattered, unorganized missions try among Hispanics emerged in Alice Luce, and others joined His- along the U.S.-Mexican border. The the midst of the Mexican Revolu- panic ministers such as Isabel Flores, convention united Hispanic Pente- tion, a decade-long civil war that be- Antonio Ríos Morin, and Arnulfo costals and laid the foundation for gan in 1910 and changed the North López. Together, they ministered one of the largest and fastest growing American social landscape. Thou- among the 300,000 refugees from segments of the Assemblies of God. sands of displaced people fled the the Mexican Revolution who lived The first superintendent of the armed conflict and social disruption along the borderlands in Texas. newly organized Hispanic work was in Mexico and sought refuge along These Pentecostal pioneers Ball—probably chosen because as the borderlands in the United States. viewed the refugees as a heaven- an Anglo he was able to navigate the These refugees, uprooted from their sent opportunity to share the gospel, difficult legal and cultural challenges families and their native land, often which they did in both word and facing the Mexican refugees. lived in squalid conditions. They had deed. Many Mexican refugees were In one such challenging circum- an uncertain legal status and, in the receptive to the gospel, and Spanish- stance, Isabel Flores was arrested in eyes of many observers, not much language Pentecostal congregations May 1918 and incarcerated in the of a future. started forming in refugee camps and Jackson County jail in Edna, Texas. While the broader American so- elsewhere. The reason for the arrest is unknown. ciety often rejected the Mexican An account published in 1966 in refugees, Pentecostals reacted differ- 1918 Convention La Luz Apostolica simply stated, ently. Countless Assemblies of God and Arrests “It was wartime, and the officer did ministers fanned out, offering food, One hundred years ago, an orga- not speak Spanish and Isabel did not shelter, and medical assistance to nizational convention was held for speak English.” Ball came to the aid those who were hurting. Anglo mis- Hispanic Assemblies of God church- of Flores and traveled to Edna, where sionaries Henry C. Ball, Felix Hale, es and ministers in the United States. he spoke with the authorities and se- 2 AG HERITAGE 2017-18 cured the prisoner’s release.1 ship was more fully realized in 1939, panic Pentecostal movement was Ball’s status as a native-born when Demetrio Bazan succeeded birthed. Today, Hispanics and other American, however, did not prevent Ball as the first Hispanic leader of ethnic minorities are helping to fuel him from also encountering prob- the Latin American District Council the continuing growth of the Assem- lems. The Assemblies of God, like of the Assemblies of God. blies of God in the United States. many other premillennial American Hispanics forged their own As- evangelicals, took a pacifist position semblies of God identity—develop- during World War I. Ball’s work with ing indigenous leaders, schools, and Darrin J. Rodgers, M.A., J.D., is Mexican refugees and his church’s governance structures—which gave director of the Flower Pentecostal pacifism caused government of- believers a voice in a society where Heritage Center and editor of ficials to view him with suspicion. they were often marginalized. Assemblies of God Heritage Ball was arrested in Brownsville, Today, nearly one quarter of As- magazine. Texas, on suspicion of being a Ger- semblies of God adherents in the man spy, but he was soon released.2 United States are Hispanic. In the last ten years, from 2006 to 2016, NOTES Development of the number of Hispanic adherents Hispanic Leaders increased from 540,431 (19.1% of Despite legal, political, and eco- all adherents) to 718,785 (22.2% of 1“Historia de los Primeros 50 Años de las Asambleas de Dios Latinos,” La Luz Apostolica nomic tensions, Ball maintained his all adherents). Hispanics accounted 50:8 (April 1966): 2. focus on helping the Pentecostal for 44% of the growth during that 2Ibid. movement among Hispanics to ma- period. The rest of the growth came 3Ball promoted an indigenous missions ture and grow. He stressed the im- from whites (11%) and other ethnic theory as early as 1918, when he wrote that portance of developing indigenous minorities (45%). Hispanic AG churches in the U.S. aimed to leaders who could serve as pastors, The vision to bring the gospel to be self-supporting and to ultimately send missionaries to their countries of origin. H. evangelists, and missionaries to suffering Mexican refugees ultimate- C. Ball, “A Report of the Spanish Pentecostal Hispanics in the United States and ly helped to transform the American Convention,” Pentecostal Evangel, December across Latin America.3 church. Those refugees became the 28, 1918, 7. This vision for indigenous leader- seeds from which a resilient His- 2017-18 AG HERITAGE 3 Rachel Sizelove, taken about the time she received the vision of the sparkling fountain. The Sparkling Fountain: Early Pentecostalism in Springfield, Missouri By Glenn W. Gohr and Darrin J. Rodgers ne hundred years ago, the Assemblies of God (AG) and worldview of early Pentecostals and will hopefully inspire relocated its national office and publishing house to future generations to likewise follow God whole-heartedly and OSpringfield, Missouri. Could this have been a fulfill- to believe God for great things. ment of a vision from God? Five years earlier, in 1913, Pente- costal evangelist Rachel Sizelove had a vision of a “sparkling From Azusa Street to the Ozarks fountain” in the heart of Springfield. At the time, Pentecostals Like many revivals throughout Christian history, the Pente- in the Ozarks city were struggling to establish a church, but costal movement in Springfield did not originate with prominent Sizelove’s vision foresaw rivers of living water that would flow people or in gilded edifices, but with humble, devout people from Springfield and bless all the earth. who desired to be fully committed to Christ and His mission. The decision in 1918 to purchase the former meat market James and Lillie Corum and their family were such people.2 on 434 West Pacific Street to house the national ministries of The Corum family moved from Fort Sill, Oklahoma, to the AG resulted in Springfield becoming a ministry hub within Springfield in 1905. They lived in a white clapboard farm- the Fellowship. Numerous national min- house, located on East Division Street, istries developed, including educational which, at the time, was outside the city institutions, missions agencies, a retire- Sizelove’s vision limits.
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