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John Graham Lake  (March 18, 1870 – September 16, 1935), usually known as  John G. Lake , was a Canadian-American leader in the  Pentecostal  movement that began in the early 20th century, and is known as a  faith healer ,  missionary , and with  Thomas Hezmalhalch , co-founder of the  Apostolic Faith Mission of South Africa . Through his 1908–13 African missionary work, Lake played a decisive role in the spread of  Pentecostalism in South Africa , the most successful southern African religious movement of the 20th century.   After completing his missionary work in Africa, Lake evangelized for 20 years, primarily along the west coast of the United States setting up "healing rooms" and healing campaigns, and establishing churches. Lake was influenced by the healing ministry of  John Alexander Dowie  and the ministry of  Charles Parham . Early life and career Lake wa...

Early life Smith Wigglesworth was born on 8 June 1859 in Menston,  Yorkshire , England, to an impoverished family. As a small child, he worked in the fields pulling turnips alongside his mother; he also worked in factories. During his childhood he was  illiterate . Nominally a  Methodist , he became a  born again Christian  at the age of eight. His grandmother was a devout Methodist; his parents, John and Martha took young Smith to Methodist and  Anglican churches on regular occasions. He was confirmed by a Bishop in the Church of England, baptized by immersion in the Baptist Church and had the grounding in Bible teaching in the  Plymouth Brethren while learning the plumbing trade as an apprentice from a man in the Brethren movement. Wigglesworth married Polly Featherstone on 2 May 1882. At the time of their marriage, she was a preacher with the  Salvation Army  and had come to the attention of General  William Booth . They ...

Billy Graham was an evangelist at revival meetings, and on radio and television for over 40 years. Synopsis Born on November 7, 1918, in Charlotte, North Carolina, Billy Graham was preaching at an L.A. revival and was a guest on Stuart Hamblen's radio show in 1949. The publicity made Graham a superstar and he began broadcasting his sermons globally. Though detractors have criticized Graham for being too liberal, one  Time  reporter dubbed him "the Pope of Protestant America." Billy Graham retired in 2005. Early Life Religious figure and Christian evangelist William Franklin Graham, Jr. was born on November 7, 1918, in Charlotte, North Carolina, to parents William and Morrow Graham. Billy Graham was the first of four children raised on the family's dairy farm in Charlotte. In hindsight there was little indication that Graham would one day preach the Christian gospel to as many as 215 million people in live audiences over 185 countries. Gra...