They truly lived as, and considered themselves to be American pioneers. Description. "Visions of Glory: The Place of the Azusa Street Revival in Pentecostal History". He invited "all ministers and Christians who were willing to forsake all, sell what they had, give it away, and enter the school for study and prayer". One can certainly imagine, in the Parham case, someone who was opposed to him or offended by him coming up with a false story, intending to hurt him. On October the 17th twenty-four people received and by soon fifty were known to have experienced the Holy Spirits power with tongues. Even if Voliva was not guilty of creating such a fantastic story, he did his utmost to exploit the situation. It would have likely been more persuasive that claims of conspiracy. A Histria de Charles Fox Parham: o pai do pentecostalismo. Charles F. Parham (June 4, 1873 - c. January 29, 1929) was an American preacher and evangelist. About seventy-five people (probably locals) gathered with the forty students for the watch night service and there was an intense power of the Lord present. Matthew Shaw is a librarian at Ball State University and serves as Minister of Music at the United Pentecostal Church of New Castle. C harles Fox Parham, the 'father of the Pentecostal' Movement, is most well known for perceiving, proclaiming and then imparting the'The Baptism with the Holy Spirit with the initial evidence of speaking in other tongues.' Birth and Childhood Charles Parham was born on June 4, 1873 in Muscatine, Iowa, to William and Ann Maria Parham. Parham and his supporters, for their part, have apparently never denied that the charge was homosexual activity, only that the charges were false, were part of an elaborate frame, and were dropped for lack of evidenced. In early January 1929, Parham took a long car ride with two friends to Temple, Texas, where he was to be presenting his pictures of Palestine. For about a year he had a following of several hundred "Parhamites", eventually led by John G Lake. [24] Finally, the District Attorney decided to drop the case. Enter: Charles Fox Parham. Anderson, Robert Mapes. According to this story, he confessed on the day he was arrested so that they'd let him out of the county jail, and he signed the confession. From this unusual college, a theology was developed that would change the face of the Christian church forever. Born in Muscatine, Iowa, Parham was converted in 1886 and enrolled to prepare for ministry at Southwestern Kansas College, a Methodist institution. [36] It is not clear when he began to preach the need for such an experience, but it is clear that he did by 1900.