Frank bartleman biography

Bartleman is best remembered for his chronicles of the Pentecostal revival at Los Angeles, including the events leading up to and immediately following the revival. He wrote numerous diary like articles for a number of the Holiness, and later Pentecostal, magazines, starting indocumenting the stirring that led up to the revival, then documenting the progress of the revival.

Frank bartleman biography

After the Los Angeles revival, and his missionary work ending with the start of WWI he returned to evangelistic and street work until his death in More than an eyewitness at the Azusa Street Revival. Older Post Home. He took on various jobs when he moved to Philadelphia, where he was converted at Grace Baptist Church, pastored by Russell H. Conwell, on Oct.

He was twenty-two years of age and showed so much ministerial potential that his pastor offered to pay his college fees. He frank bartleman biography traveled to Chicago to study briefly at Moody Bible Institute before embarking on two evangelistic tours in the South where he became discouraged and depressed. On May 2,Bartleman married Anna Ladd, a Bulgarian-born woman, adopted and raised by American Methodist missionaries to Bulgaria, but now a matron for fallen girls in Pittsburgh.

Thereafter he joined the Wesleyan Methodist Church and was offered a pastorate in Corry, Pennsylvania, which he found very hard ground indeed. He also saw his horse healed in answer to prayer and experienced the power of the name of Jesus to foil a Satanic attack on himself during the night. He was surely being prepared for the mighty outpouring that was to come.

While in Colorado Bartleman continued the work that became his lifelong mission — working with down-and-outs, alcoholics and wayward girls, mostly in inner city rescue missions. It was here that his writing ministry began. He produced tracts and painted scriptures in highly visible public places like bridges and rock faces. In he arrived in Sacramento, California and was immediately placed in charge of the Peniel Mission, a downtown, holiness rescue mission.

Incompetent workers and frank bartleman biography rivalry between the local Pillar of Fire and Burning Bush Missions caused him to leave the post. He tried to get other pastoral work but was forced to all kinds of odd-jobs to feed his wife and family. Their first child, Esther, died shortly after birth and Frank recommitted himself to ministry as a result.

From toBartleman attended prayer meetings led by William J. Seymour prior to the Azusa Street Revival. Bartleman wrote many daily articles for Pentecostal magazines and documented the events that led up to the Los Angeles revival. Through his writing he accomplished much in the area of evangelism during his lifetime. His book Azusa Street describes the events surrounding the Pentecostal revival.

He authored six booksfour pamphletsover five hundred and fifty published articlesand one hundred tracts. Bartleman is best remembered for his chronicles of the Los Angeles revival. There were far more white people than colored coming. After the Los Angeles revival and his missionary work ending with the start of World War I he returned to evangelistic street work until his death in After joining Alma White and the Pillar of Fire holiness church in Denver, Bartleman continued the work that became his lifelong mission — working with down-and-outs, alcoholics and wayward girls, mostly in inner city rescue missions.

He set out in slums, he first set out for the Middle Alley and Trout Street areas, and evangelized. For a short time after quitting a shoe job inBartleman made ends meet selling religious books, which he used as an opportunity to spread the Gospel. In FebruaryBartleman entered the Salvation Army. There were far more white people than colored coming.

After the Los Angeles revival and his missionary work ending with the start of World War I he returned to evangelistic street work until his death in After joining Alma White and the Pillar of Fire holiness church in Denver, Bartleman continued the work that became his lifelong mission — working with down-and-outs, alcoholics and wayward girls, mostly in inner city rescue missions.

Bartleman's first mission work began while he was studying at Temple University. He set out in slums, he first set out for the Middle Alley and Trout Street areas, and evangelized. For a short time after quitting a shoe job inBartleman made ends meet selling religious books, which he used as an opportunity to spread the Gospel.