EVANGELICAL WOMEN IN THE SECOND HALF OF 1800; LUCY FARROW P/11

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In this story I will focus on an African-American woman named Lucy Farrow, She lived from 1851- 1911. Lucy was born in Norfolk, Virginia. She was the niece of abolitionist Frederick Douglass. In 1871, she lived in Mississippy and had a son. By 1890, she was living in Houston, Texas and was a widow.

In Houston Lucy pastored a small mission-church. Her connections to Azusa began with her association with William Seymour. He attended her church in Houston and was given leadership for a season while Lucy moved east to Kansas.

Lucy left for Kansas to work in the Bible College of early Pentecostal leader, Charles Fox Parham. At Parham's school she heard his teaching on the Baptism in the Holy Spirit being evidenced by speaking in tongues. In one of Parham's meetings, Lucy had this spiritual experience of being baptised in he Spirit and she spoke with other tongues. She is the first recorded black person to have had this experience.

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