Pentecostal

An American healing evangelist, preacher and female revivalist, Maria Beulah Woodworth Etter is one of the key figures in the early Pentecostal movement and an inspiration and figurehead to both scholars and those within the faith today. Born into relative poverty, Etter didn’t have an upbringing within the church but became a Christian through a local Disciples of Christ organisation which met near her home. She had wanted to become an evangelist but being female, was prohibited from doing so whilst a part of the Disciples of Christ. At a local Quakers meeting, she experienced what Pentecostals refer to as the ‘Baptism of the HolyRead More →