A History of Christian Doctrine #3 - Online Christian Library

Trinitarian Pentecostal Organizations
Canada in the British Commonwealth. The founder was
Alice Belle Garrigus (1858-1949), a Pentecostal evangelist
from Boston, Massachusetts, who started a mission in
St. John’s in 1911 and served as the first leader.
Two Italian immigrants, Luigi Francescon and
Giacomo Lombardi, received the Holy Spirit under
William Durham. In 1908, Lombardi held the first
Pentecostal service in Italy. On periodic trips back to Italy,
he and Francescon established a strong Pentecostal following
there; today it is by far the largest Protestant
grouping in that country. About 200,000 people are in the
AG, and 200,000 are with other Pentecostal organizations.
Francescon also established large Italian
Pentecostal churches in Argentina (1909) and Brazil
(1910).
Two Swedish immigrants to America, Daniel Berg
(1884-1963) and Gunnar Vingren received the Holy Spirit
in South Bend, Indiana, near Chicago. Commissioned as
missionaries by William Durham, they went to Brazil and
began a national church there in 1911, which they called
the Assemblies of God. It began before the American
organization of that name, as a distinct entity, but it later
affiliated with the American AG while remaining independent
in government. It is the largest Protestant church in
Brazil and the largest AG church in any country. It reports
16,000,000 constituents, but some researchers say
8,000,000 is more accurate. 166
In Chile, a Methodist missionary named Willis C.
Hoover (1856-1936) received the Holy Ghost in 1909 after
reading about a Pentecostal revival at a mission in India. He
organized the Pentecostal Methodist Church of Chile and
later the Evangelical Pentecostal Church of Chile, the
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