Word: parham
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There the Rev. Charles Parham founded his first Pentecostal Bible school in 1900. He taught that every "full Gospel Christian" must be "baptized in the Holy Spirit." From this followed such gifts as glossolalia, faith healing and prophecy. Parham encountered resistance from local church leaders and eventually moved off to Texas, where his Pentecostal churches found their roots among the South's rural poor (current membership: about 4 million...