Published by Vince Baker Ministries
Before the Pentecostal label
Woodworth-Etter was already an itinerant evangelist in the nineteenth century. In her published recollections, she described a long Los Angeles tent meeting that began in 1893 and meetings in Indianapolis before the 1906 revival in Los Angeles. Those dates help place her in the wider landscape of holiness and revival movements that preceded twentieth-century Pentecostal institutions.
A woman preaching in public
Historian Priscilla Pope-Levison includes Woodworth-Etter among women evangelists whose work deserves study on its own terms. Organizing a traveling ministry, preaching publicly, and publishing accounts of the meetings were all part of her work. Her books provide one window into how she understood her calling, and they are worth reading alongside later historical accounts.
A Scripture connection
Acts 2 records Peter drawing on Joel’s language about sons and daughters prophesying. Read the whole passage and consider what it says about the Spirit and participation in ministry. For a contemporary study of revival from Vince Baker Ministries, see Last Days Revival.
Scripture to read alongside the history
- Acts 2:16-18 · KJV
