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Aimee Elizabeth Semple McPherson (née Kennedy; October 9, 1890 – September 27, 1944), also known as Sister Aimee or Sister, was a Canadian Pentecostal evangelist and media celebrity in the 1920s and 1930s, famous for founding the Foursquare Church.
Jun 13, 2024 · Aimee Semple McPherson, controversial American Pentecostal evangelist and early radio preacher whose International Church of the Foursquare Gospel brought her wealth, notoriety, and a following numbering in the tens of thousands. Learn more about her life and career.
Sep 8, 2023 · Aimee Semple McPherson was not the first female evangelist to step into the pulpit, but she’s by far the most famous—and perhaps the most infamous. During the onset of Hollywood’s golden age, she amazed audiences by co-opting Tinseltown-style theatrics to flesh out her sermons.
On May 18, 1926, Christian evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappeared from Venice Beach, California, after going for a swim. She reappeared in Mexico five weeks later, stating she had escaped from kidnappers there.
Jun 17, 2013 · Aimee Semple McPherson, evangelist, faith-healer, founder of the Foursquare Gospel Church and builder of the Angelus Temple, was believed to have disappeared during a swim on May 18, 1926.
As a teenager, Aimee was introduced to Pentecostalism through the preaching of Robert Semple, whom she eventually married. When he died two years later, she married young businessman Harold McPherson.
Nov 25, 2014 · On 27 September 1944 Aimee Semple McPherson was found dead in a hotel room in Oakland, California. A lifelong insomniac, the 53-year-old had taken too many sedatives - but her followers insist it ...
May 18, 2017 · Aimee Semple McPherson (1890–1944) was a flamboyant, controversial, immensely popular preacher who the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel—a Pentecostal denomination which still exists today (with 1,600 churches and a quarter of a million members and adherents in the U.S.; and 75,000 churches with 8.7 million members and adherents ...
May 2, 2016 · In 1926 Aimee Semple McPherson was the most famous woman in America. She was nationally known as a Pentecostal preacher and healer. From small beginnings on a farm in Ontario, Canada, she went as a missionary to China with her husband Robert Semple.
Aimee Semple McPherson was a female pioneer of the Christian faith in a day and age when it was not so common for women to be so bold and outspoken.
