EVANGELICAL WOMEN IN THE FIRST HALF OF 1900; FUCHSIA PICKETT 1918 P/19

 

In this post I will focus on a woman named Fuchsia Pickett. Fuchsia lived from 1918 - 2004. She was born in Virginia, USA. Fuchsia came to faith in Christ through the influence of a Presbyterian co-worker and was called to preach shortly afterward. The Lord sovereignly opened a door for her to attend Bible College while her husband George Parrish, was stationed oversees and her only child, Daryl, was small.

As soon as Fuchsia graduated, she began to minister across the country. For seventeen years she preached and taught as an ordained Methodist minister and pastor of a church. Then in 1958, Fuchsia became seriously ill. She thought the service she attended at a Pentecostal Holiness Church in Virginia after planning her funeral might be her last. But the Lord prompted her to go forward for prayer, and she was completely healed and filled with the Spirit.

From that moment on, Fuchsia began to receive revelation from the Holy Spirit that made the Scriptures come alive to her. She wrote, "My Teacher moved in. For the first time in my life I began to understand, through revelation, the same Scriptures I had studied and taught faithfully for many years." This revelation became the foundation of her teaching and provided the content for more than ten books she wrote, including a definite work on her Teacher titled "Presenting the Holy Spirit."