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This Week in AG History -- June 25, 1927
Alice Luce, a missionary along the U.S. - Mexico border, believed Hispanics would become an influential voice within the U.S. Assemblies of God — she was right.
This Week in AG History -- June 11, 1921
D.W. Kerr's 1921 observations of the qualities a Pentecostal should exhibit as a worker or businessperson still hold true for today.
This Week in AG History -- May 3, 1970
Hooked on drugs and living out of his car, Dr. Howard Thomas had lost nearly everything . . . and then he met Jesus!
This Week in AG History -- April 25, 1925
Though taught that spiritual gifts had ceased with the apostles, Elmer Ferguson Muir discovered through his study of Scripture that the infilling of the Holy Spirit was for him as well. Soon afterwards, he and his wife were filled with the Holy Spirit with evidence of speaking in tongues and transferred into the Assemblies of God.
This Week in AG History -- April 18, 1925
Working with the outcasts of society, 62-year-old Mary Chapman became the first Assemblies of God missionary in South India.
This Week in AG History -- March 4, 1951
Missionary Florence Steidel literally built a city in order to minister to and meet the needs of individuals with leprosy in Liberia.
Remembering the Assemblies of God's Black Heritage
African American ministers played important roles in the early decades of the Assemblies of God as pastors, evangelists, and missionaries.
This Week in AG History -- Feb. 8, 1976
Opal W. Eubanks, a white, hard-nosed Mississippi Highway patrolman, was known for his foul mouth and rough ways, especially when dealing with African Americans . . . who would have believed God could transform him into a loving pastor of an African American congregation.
This Week in AG History -- Jan. 27, 1934
"Fake news" isn't new. In the 1930s, editors of the Pentecostal Evangel sought to set the record straight concerning falsehoods targeting Jewish people.
This Week in AG History -- Jan. 2, 1926
John Eric Booth-Clibborn, a 29-year-old missionary, died just two weeks after arriving in Africa, but he is remembered as a hero of the faith in Burkina Faso.
