World Missions

Volume 2: Extraordinary European and American women have taught, preached, and cared for people in global settings for centuries. Most of the Pentecostal missionaries who went abroad after the early C20 Pentecostal revivals were WOMEN as well. This volume, second in a series, examines precedent and concurrent women from many backgrounds: Catholic, American mainline churches, Evangelicals, and revivalist groups. Before the Pentecostal revivals, career missionary women paved the way for serving abroad, connecting with partners at home, and updating missions administrators. These women, with ...

Church leaders and pastors can sometimes struggle with a sudden increase in church attendance. And yet, what if the church in one nation is experiencing toward a million people each month being added? What would be the challenges? What about unity, communication, or discipleship? What are the church models that are applied to cope with revival and also in facing daily persecution?

In the first quarter of the twentieth century, many women - single and married - experienced the Pentecostal revival and entered Pentecostal missions in every corner of the world. Generally discouraged from preaching and leading congregations in the USA, these disempowered women considered their Holy Spirit baptism all the permission and empowerment they needed to go abroad to share the gospel. However, Pentecostal missionaries in the Assemblies of God, the largest American Pentecostal organization, soon became part of an emerging system of AG policy and emerging regulations. Why and how ...