Church History: Pentecostal/Charismatic Movements

As the official archives, research center, and museum of the Assemblies of God, the FPHC is dedicated to preserving and sharing materials relating to the Assemblies of God and the broader Pentecostal and charismatic movements. Their website includes free research tools, including digitized pages of indexed periodicals, historic photographs, and audio and video clips available for download. In addition, users may search the online catalog to the collection.

Learn about Assemblies of God Heritage on this video channel through history spotlights that focus on specific events or people, historic films, and recorded oral history interviews.

About half of the articles in the Spring 2006 edition of Enrichment Journal are available full-text online. Also at this site are additional eye-witness accounts of the Azusa Street Revival.

This is the official flickr page of the Flower Pentecostal Heritage Center. Included are photographs of individuals, such as Smith Wigglesworth and the Flower Family; events, such as Azusa Street and the First General Council; and themes, such as baptisms and tent meetings.

This website explores the historical Azusa Street revival and William J. Seymour, the revival leader.

The Consortium of Pentecostal Archives (CPA) is a collaborative effort initiated by repositories of Pentecostal archival materials to make their materials accessible online. Their digital collections are Pentecostal newspapers that are available to search full-text online.

This is the companion site to the American Experience program on Aimee Semple McPherson. It includes photos and a transcript of the documentary.

This website gives the history of the Foursquare Church, a Pentecostal denomination that resulted from the dynamic evangelistic ministry of Aimee Semple McPherson, who opened the historic Angelus Temple in 1923.

GloPent is dedicated to the study of Global Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity. This website contains information on research projects, relevant links, a collection of academic papers, and free access to their online journal, all of which can be searched easily.

This website is about the history of the Vineyard Church.

This article is an introduction to the Pentecostal/Charismatic movement and discusses how churches around the world have has to adjust to the existence of the Charismatic movement.

The Dixon Pentecostal Research Center collects, preserves and makes available for research Church of God, Pentecostal and Charismatic documents, records and other media.

The collections housed in the David du Plessis Archive document religious movements rooted in twentieth-century America such as Pentecostalism and classical evangelicalism.

This website contains a timeline for the International Pentecostal Holiness Church.