F. F. Bosworth Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===The start=== In 1906, while still in Zion, Bosworth embraced [[Pentecostalism]] in meetings with Pentecostal pioneer, [[Charles Parham]]. The Pentecostal message met resistance from the administration in Zion City, making it so community facilities were not available for holding meetings. As a result, for weeks they met nightly in the living room of Bosworth's home, as well as in several other homes, with Parham going between the homes, prior to a large tent being erected for services.<ref name="FredFrancisBosworth"/> From the time Bosworth received his Pentecostal experience, Bosworth felt driven to share the new life he experienced. One early account says he immediately took a job selling pens so he could have an opportunity to testify to others. A group including Bosworth and Lake began preaching on streets of nearby towns such as Waukegan in late 1906 where they introduced speaking in tongues.<ref>Waukegan Daily Gazette November 19, 1906</ref> By April 1907 he was into the ministry full-time, joining Cyrus Fockler in the meetings he began to hold in Milwaukee.<ref name="Out Of Zion">{{cite book | title =Out of Zion | author = Gordon P Gariner | publisher = Companion Press | year = 1990 }}</ref> His ministry continued, and the December 1908 issue of Latter Rain Evangel records meetings he was holding with Fockler in Indiana. From there he held meetings in Fitzgerald Georgia, Conway S.C., then several cities in Texas. Dallas was the final city in his Texas tour, and the meetings there were in the later part of 1909.<ref name="Blomgren">{{cite book | last = Blomgren | first = Oscar Jr. | authorlink = Oscar Blomgren Jr. | title = Fred F. Bosworth - Man of God | publisher = Herald of Faith | date = Oct 1963 β Jun 1964}}</ref> Following Bosworth's Dallas meetings, he started his first church in Dallas in 1910. The church began as an independent Pentecostal work which had a loose affiliation with the [[Christian and Missionary Alliance]] organization. In 1914 Bosworth was involved in the starting of the [[Assemblies of God USA|Assemblies of God]], and was one of their first directors. In the process, he brought his church into the organization. In 1916 the Assemblies of God formalized their doctrine that the initial evidence of the Baptism with the Holy Ghost was speaking in tongues. Bosworth did not agree with this and tried to get them to change, presenting his arguments at one of their conventions. When it became clear in 1918 that they would not change their position, Bosworth quietly withdrew from the Assemblies of God <ref name="bosworthbio"/> and started a separate [[Christian and Missionary Alliance]] church<ref name="FredFrancisBosworth"/> in Dallas.<ref>Barnes III, Roscoe, "F.F. Bosworth: A Profile in Divine Healing," p. 71 http://ifphc.org/DigitalPublications/Norway/Refleks-Publishing/Refleks/Unregistered/2005/FPHC/2005_4-2.pdf {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304083341/http://ifphc.org/DigitalPublications/Norway/Refleks-Publishing/Refleks/Unregistered/2005/FPHC/2005_4-2.pdf |date=2016-03-04 }}</ref> It was around this time (1918) that Bosworth published his pamphlet "Do All Speak With Tongues".<ref name="DoAllSpeak">{{cite book | last = Bosworth | first = F.F. | authorlink = F.F. Bosworth | title = Do All Speak With Tongues - An Open Letter to the Ministers and Saints of the Pentecostal Movement | publisher = John J. Scruby, Dayton, Ohio | date = c. 1918 }}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page