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• Choi Ja-shilPeople

  Choi Ja-shil (1915–1989) was a Korean Pentecostal woman minister. In 1958, together with David Yonggi Cho, who later became her son-in-law, she founded the Daejo-dong tent church, which became today's Yoido Full Gospel Church.

• Jennie Evans MoorePeople

  Jennie Evans Moore (1874 or 1883–1936) was an African American Pentecostal leader. She was among the first to speak in tongues in the early days of the Azusa Street Revival, married William J. Seymour in 1908, and led the Azusa Street Mission after her husband's death.

• Word of Faith MovementDoctrine & Theology

  The Word of Faith movement is a religious movement that arose within twentieth-century American Pentecostal and charismatic circles. It teaches that health and prosperity come to pass when believers trust the promises of Scripture and confess them aloud.

• EastertideFeasts & Seasons

  Eastertide is the season of the church year that celebrates the resurrection of Jesus Christ during the roughly fifty days from Easter to Pentecost. It is also called the Easter season.

• LibyaBible

  Libya is the name of the region of North Africa west of Egypt. In the Bible, it appears in Acts 2:10 as one of the places from which people had come to Jerusalem at Pentecost.

• Acts 2Bible

  Acts 2 is the chapter in which the Holy Spirit comes upon the disciples on the day of Pentecost and, following Peter's sermon, about three thousand people are baptized, marking the beginning of the church in Jerusalem.

• Smith WigglesworthPeople

  Smith Wigglesworth (1859–1947) was a British evangelist who had a major influence on the early Pentecostal movement. A plumber by trade, he became an itinerant evangelist who emphasized faith and divine healing, and he came to be known as the "Apostle of Faith."

• Sarah ThistlethwaitePeople

  Sarah Thistlethwaite (1877–1937) was the wife of Charles Parham, an early leader of the American Pentecostal movement. She joined her husband in itinerant evangelism, led the Apostolic Faith movement after his death, and compiled his biography.

• Church YearFeasts & Seasons

  The church year is the church's calendar, which arranges a year of worship in sequence according to the life of Jesus Christ and the coming of the Holy Spirit, beginning with Advent and continuing through the season after Pentecost. It is also known as the cycle of church seasons.

• PamphyliaBible

  Pamphylia was a region on the southern coast of Asia Minor (modern Türkiye). In the Book of Acts, it appears in the list of nations at Pentecost, in the account of Paul's first missionary journey, and in the narrative of his voyage to Rome. It is known as the place where Mark left Paul and his companions.

• PontusBible

  Pontus was a region in northern Asia Minor along the southern coast of the Black Sea. In the New Testament it appears in the Pentecost narrative, as the birthplace of Aquila, and as one of the regions addressed in 1 Peter.

• CappadociaBible

  Cappadocia was a region in the east-central interior of Asia Minor, in what is now central Türkiye. In the New Testament it appears in the account of Pentecost and as one of the regions addressed in 1 Peter.

• LibyaBible

  Libya (Lubim) is the biblical name for the land of North Africa west of Egypt and for its people. In the Old Testament its people appear alongside the Egyptian army; in the New Testament the region is named as a place of origin for the crowd gathered in Jerusalem at Pentecost.

• Baptism by ImmersionWorship & Rites

  Baptism by immersion is a mode of baptism in which the person's whole body is submerged in water and then raised up again. In Korea, certain denominations, including Baptist churches and churches of the Full Gospel (Pentecostal) tradition, follow this practice.

• DenominationOrganization & Polity

  A denomination is a grouping of Protestant churches that share the same theological tradition and form of church government. Examples include the Presbyterian, Methodist, Holiness, Baptist, Pentecostal, Anglican, and Lutheran churches.

• Hansei UniversityInstitutions

  Hansei University is a private Christian comprehensive university in Gunpo, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea. It began in 1953 as Full Gospel Theological Seminary, a Pentecostal theological school, and has close ties to the Korea Assemblies of God and Yoido Full Gospel Church.

• Charles ParhamPeople

  Charles Fox Parham (1873–1929) was an American preacher and itinerant evangelist. As the first to systematize speaking in tongues as the evidence of baptism in the Holy Spirit, he is regarded as an early leader of the Pentecostal movement.

• Joel 2:32Bible Verses

  Joel 2:32 promises that on the day of the LORD "whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered." Quoted in Peter's Pentecost sermon (Acts 2:21) and in Romans 10:13, it is frequently cited as a text on the universal offer of salvation and on the lordship of Jesus.

• John 20:22Bible Verses

  John 20:22 records the risen Jesus breathing on His disciples and saying, "Receive ye the Holy Ghost." The verse is frequently discussed in pneumatology and ecclesiology, both for its relationship to the outpouring of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost in Acts 2 and for the authority to forgive sins that follows it.

• Isaiah 53:5Bible Verses

  Isaiah 53:5 is the central verse of the Song of the Suffering Servant, declaring that he was wounded for our transgressions and that with his stripes we are healed. It is a key text for the atoning death of Christ. Pentecostal traditions and other denominations disagree over whether the "healing" it describes includes physical healing.