A History of Christian Doctrine #3 - Online Christian Library

Trinitarian Pentecostal Organizations
matic Churches of North America, which included black
organizations. No Oneness organizations were invited to
participate.
Trinitarian Pentecostals around the World
From the Azusa Street Mission in Los Angeles, the
Pentecostal movement spread rapidly around the world.
The February-March 1907 issue of The Apostolic Faith,
published by the mission, reported outpourings of the
Holy Spirit in London, Stockholm, Oslo, and Calcutta.
Later issues gave reports from Africa, Australia, Canada,
China, Denmark, Jerusalem, and elsewhere.
The earliest missionaries from Azusa Street were A. G.
Garr and his wife, who went to India and Hong Kong.
American missionaries in various parts of the world
received their Pentecostal experience either by attending
Azusa Street or reading the news about it, and the Holy
Spirit began to fall in their missions. Notable revivals
occurred in India, China, and Japan as a result.
A key figure in the spread of Pentecostalism to
Europe was Thomas Ball Barratt (1862-1940) of Norway,
a Methodist pastor. While in the United States in 1906, he
heard of the Azusa Street revival, corresponded with the
mission, and received the Holy Spirit in New York City. He
returned to Oslo, where he conducted the first modern
Pentecostal meeting in Europe and founded the Filadelfia
Church.
Pastors from across Europe came to visit Barratt’s
services in Oslo and were filled with the Spirit. Notable
converts, who in turn established Pentecostal movements
in their own countries, were Alexander Boddy, an
Anglican pastor in Sunderland, England; Jonathan Paul, a
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