Hello everyone. Praise the Lord!
Here is a short introduction to Charles Fox Parham.
THE FATHER OF PENTECOST.
Charles Fox Parham commands a degree of respect. He is best known as “The father of modern Pentecostalism,” having been the main initiator of the movement and its first real influencer. It was his student a black Holiness preacher, William Seymour, who was the catalyst for the famous 1906 Azusa Street Revival.
Charles Fox Parham gave his life to restore the revolutionary truths of healing and the baptism of the Holy Spirit to the church. The first forty years of the twentieth century were powerfully visited by this man’s Pentecostal message that changed the lives of thousands around the world.
The miracles that occurred in Charles Parham’s ministry are too numerous to record. Multiplied thousands found salvation, healing, deliverance, and the baptism of the Holy Spirit. When he proclaimed to the world in 1901 that “speaking in tongues was the evidence of the baptism of the Holy Spirit,” the Pentecostal truths of the early church were wonderfully restored. But the evangelist paid a price for it. The relentless backlash of persecution and slander Parham endured throughout his life would have destroyed others of lesser character. But for Parham, it only served to strengthen his hardened determination and purposeful faith.
“At Christ’s Second Coming the Church will be found with the same power that the Apostles and the early Church possessed. The power of Pentecost is manifest in us. The Christian religion must be demonstrated. The world wants to be shown. Then let God’s power be manifest through us.”
- Charles Fox Parham
