apr 9, 1906 - The Azusa Street Mission in Los Angeles, birth of Pentecostalism

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The Evangelical Awakening gained unexpected reinforcement in 1960 from another source of personal Christianity, Pentecostalism. The Pentecostal experience—“the baptism of the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in tongues”—was not new. The spark of twentieth-century Pentecostalism was a three-year-long revival, beginning in 1906, at the Azusa Street Mission in Los Angeles. There were personal experiences of tongues-speaking earlier, but Azusa Street ignited worldwide Pentecostalism. Christians from all over North America, Europe, and the majority world visited Azusa Street and carried the fire back home.

On the night of April 9, 1906, Seymour and seven men were waiting on God on Bonnie Brae Street, "when suddenly, as though hit by a bolt of lightning, they were knocked from their chairs to the floor," and the other seven men began to speak in tongues and shout out loud praising God.

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