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    Aimee Semple McPherson, Everybody's Sister

    This has been on my shelf for a while. Today, I started it and so far is very interesting to read of her being raised in the early days of Pentecostalism. Heartwarming.

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    Quote Originally Posted by FireBrand View Post
    This has been on my shelf for a while. Today, I started it and so far is very interesting to read of her being raised in the early days of Pentecostalism. Heartwarming.
    One of the people I follow on Instagram, @brian_taylor_revival_history posts a lot of old pics and posts a lot of pics of her and her meetings and comments. Interesting stuff. I never knew anything about her really other than Anthony Quinn on Johnny Carson talking about the 3 most fascinating women he ever met and she was one of them.

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    She definitely had a gift but at the end of her life it seemed she became the first Hollywood type preacher surrounded with controversy

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    I want to try to understand her life. She was raised in an affluent home, dad was UMC and mom was Salvation Army and very straight holiness life that many had back then (and some of us still today). Very artsy, socialite, loved skating, dancing and theatre, all the stuff dad approved of and mom did not. Interesting story.

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    Quote Originally Posted by FireBrand View Post
    I want to try to understand her life. She was raised in an affluent home, dad was UMC and mom was Salvation Army and very straight holiness life that many had back then (and some of us still today). Very artsy, socialite, loved skating, dancing and theatre, all the stuff dad approved of and mom did not. Interesting story.
    Actually she repented from dancing as she became a Christian when the Pentecostal revival reached her hometown. Dancing was often a sexually charged activity back then, even if one wouldn't be able to tell from old films.

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    Actually she repented from dancing as she became a Christian when the Pentecostal revival reached her hometown. Dancing was often a sexually charged activity back then, even if one wouldn't be able to tell from old films.
    The night she and dad visited the Pentecostal Mission changed everything.

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    So I’m reading where Aimee was given an ultimatum by mum to either quit the mission nonsense or quit school. The snow kept her from driving her horse sleigh to school so she took the train and had to walk the remaining mile to school, right by the pentecostal mission that was already in full prayer and seeking mode. Aimee decided it was going to be God. They had all become snowed in and sought God for the mighty Baptism and heavenly prayer gift. This is a paragraph describing the days of being truly shut in with God. If you wish to follow along...

    “The next day was Sunday and the sun shone brightly: once again the weather seemed to Aimee to mirror her spiritual experience. Robert Semple conducted a communion service at the nearby mission. Aimee could not contain her emotions and “went down” under the power, much to the chagrin of a family acquaintance who walked out and phoned her mother. Minnie (Aimee’s mother) insisted he bring Aimee to the phone: she came, but she professed to be unable to speak English and answered her angry mother in the strange tongues the Pentecostals used. Minnie decided to fetch Aimee herself. Once and for all, she would put an end to her daughter’s infatuation with the Pentecostals.”

    This was the winter of 1908. Aimee was 17.

    - The desperately hungry are an offense only to the well-fed.

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    Just finished chap 2 “The Pivot”. Aimee was 19, pregnant when husband Robert and she were hit with severe malaria. Robert died in that Hong Kong hospital at age 29.

    What a story thus far. More along the way I am impressed with the impact of foreign missions when the Pentecostal revival of that era took place. You can see this same dynamic in the more recent Brownsville Revival. This should be of no surprise when reading Acts 1 where Jesus said to wait for Power from On High, power to be His witnesses.

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    Quote Originally Posted by FireBrand View Post
    Just finished chap 2 “The Pivot”. Aimee was 19, pregnant when husband Robert and she were hit with severe malaria. Robert died in that Hong Kong hospital at age 29.

    What a story thus far. More along the way I am impressed with the impact of foreign missions when the Pentecostal revival of that era took place. You can see this same dynamic in the more recent Brownsville Revival. This should be of no surprise when reading Acts 1 where Jesus said to wait for Power from On High, power to be His witnesses.
    That is where my heart is-finding those who wish to receive and ministering to them. Don't care if it's a single person, a bible study or a congregation. I don't believe that one can fulfill their role as a disciple of Jesus without it.

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    Some of my older relatives from LA remembered her in her heyday and how people would drive by her church to mock the holy rollers as they were called back then and throw tomatoes. It was a popular place to be. Many movie stars including Ronald Reagan attended her church.
    I have a good friend who we came up in church together, his great grandmother was Amie’s church organist at Angelus Temple. He has quite a few stories from his family about her & the church.

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