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Stanley Howard Frodsham was a British pastor, editor, author and teacher and one of the founding figures of the
Pentecostal movement Pentecostalism or classical Pentecostalism is a Protestant Charismatic Christian movement
in Europe. He was the editor of the Pentecostal Evangel and the author of 15 books.


Life and Ministry

Frodsham was born in 1882 in Bournemouth, England in a Christian home. As a young man he read a history of
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which he found inspirational. He later attended a
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in London, where he described a conversion experience. He then travelled to Johannesburg, South Africa where he worked for YMCA for a year in a secretarial role – a work that had just been established there. After this he travelled to Canada in 1906. On his return from Canada in 1908 Frodsham visited
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in his church in Sunderland, where a series of Pentecostal meetings had been taking place. Frodsham describes receiving the
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and
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. He returned to Bournemouth where he hosted the British-Norwegian Pentecostal pioneer, T. B. Barratt in 1909. Frodsham began publishing a Pentecostal paper, "Victory," that same year. The following year, in 1910, Frodsham returned to Canada where he met and married Alice Rowlands. By 1916, he became a pastor for the Assemblies of God, and was elected General Secretary within five years. By 1921 he would also be elected as editor of the Pentecostal Evangel, and all other publications of the Assemblies of God. In 1928, Frodsham wrote a history of the Pentecostal movement to date, called "With Signs Following". In all he wrote 15 books throughout his ministry. Controversy arose in the 1940s when Frodsham became involved in the Pentecostal offshoot Latter Rain Movement. This led to debate and criticism among Pentecostals of the period and eventually led to Frodsham's retirement. A resolution of the Assemblies of God was adopted reinforcing their official disapproval for the movement and a statement to that effect was published in The Pentecostal Evangel after Frodsham's retirement. Owing to his writing and editing, Frodsham was affectionately known as "God's prophet with a pen".


Bibliography

# ''Around the World with the Boomerang Boy'' (1926) # ''With Signs Following'' (1928) # ''The Spirit-filled Life: A word to those who desire to live a victorious life '' (1949) # ''Smith Wigglesworth. Apostle of Faith'' (1969)


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* * * * * 1882 births 1969 deaths Pentecostalism {{Christian-clergy-stub