Azusa Street

The year was 1906 on a street called Azusa, located in Los Angeles, California.  It was the birth of the pentecostal movement.  What very few people know is that a twelve year old girl in that first meeting stood up and spoke in tongues.  Thus the Pentecostal movement began.  I'm not going to even think of tackling the subject of "tongues", but I wanted to write about this because like me, maybe there are lots of people who did not know it's beginning.  This movement revolves around this little girl who spoke in tongues!

Did the Church dwell on tongues and the like before 1906?  

Some believe "speaking in tongues" and "holy jumping" have occurred for hundreds, even thousands, of years. Founded in 1747 in England the United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing practiced “singing and dancing, shaking and shouting, speaking with new tongues and prophesying" — some migrated to the United States in 1774 where they met similar faiths. Charismatic religions existed in Europe nearly a century before Prygunyreported their outpouring of the Holy Spirit in 1833 in Novorossiya (South Ukraine). Holiness jumping was reported in Los Angeles in April 1904, months before the Pryguny began to arrive in numbers in January 1905. How and whether these diverse faiths around the world are connected is continually researched and discussed by scholars.

You be the judge.