Date |
Event |
1/1/1901 |
Agnes Osman was baptised with the Holy Ghost in topeka Kansas. Within about three days, a dozen had been baptized. |
4/9/1906 |
Several ladies were Baptized with the Holy Ghost in a Cottage Meeting on 214 Bonnie Brae St. in Los Angeles |
4/15/1906 |
Mission opened at 312 Azusa St. Los Angeles CA. |
9/1/1906 |
1st AF Paper published in Los Angeles in Sept, 1906 |
12/29/1906 |
Florence Crawford arrived in Portland for the first time. Was in the meeting at 2nd and Main St. that afternoon. |
1/3/1907 |
Jail Meetings First held in Portland |
3/1/1907 |
First street meeting held in Portland. |
6/2/1907 |
1st Camp Meeting began at 12th and Division; 3 months |
5/31/1908 |
2nd Camp Meeting began at Mt. Tabor; moved to Front and Burnside 10/1/08 |
7/1/1908 |
1st AF Paper published in Portland |
10/1/1908 |
First service at Front and Burnside |
10/23/1908 |
Bro. Ray Crawford was converted. He was nineteen years old. |
6/13/1909 |
3rd Camp Meeting began at Montavilla and lasted until 9/1/1909. |
7/3/1910 |
4th Camp Meeting began at Fulton and lasted until Sept |
6/30/1912 |
6th Camp Meeting began at 18th and Holgate and lasted until 9/1/1912 |
12/4/1912 |
1st large Gospel Car obtained for Street Meetings |
4/24/1913 |
Harbor work begun in Portland by Max Hansen. (In one 14 mo. period in 1973-4, 1568 seamen visited Portland Church) |
6/29/1913 |
7th Camp Meeting will begin at Fulton on Sunday 6/29/1913 and continue through July |
7/18/1913 |
1st State Prison visit |
?/?/1915 |
9th Camp Meeting lasted for five weeks. Over 200 tents. Seats 800. 276 people baptized in the Columbia (paper #32) |
7/20/1915 |
Cecil Banta began playing his guitar in the church services |
8/27/1915 |
The Church (including west coast branch churches) now has 14 Gospel Cars |
8/3/1916 |
First Transcontinental Gospel Auto trip began |
6/2/1917 |
136 people received the Baptism of the Holy Ghost during the Kenton Camp Meeting |
10/18/1917 |
1st printing equipment installed (Platen Press) |
6/22/1918 |
A 22 piece orchestra is organized (Rev Ray Crawford, Director) |
6/8/1919 |
Rose Marvin Haggren began playing in the orchestra |
7/1/1919 |
1st Children's Orchestra, Rose City Camp Meeting |
10/18/1919 |
1st AF Paper printed on own Meihle Press. (Paper # 44) |
12/6/1919 |
1st "Armour Bearer" Young People's paper published in Portland |
1/26/1920 |
1st Gospel airplane "Sky Pilot" left Tulsa, OK for Portland. Arrived 2/18/1920 |
6/6/1920 |
Edna Hazel (later Edna Crawford) joined the orchestra |
6/27/1920 |
First Camp Meeting held (in a tent) at 52nd and Duke St.in Portland, OR |
7/29/1920 |
May Allen began working in the church office (for more than 55 years) |
8/5/1920 |
Clifford Baltzell began working in Portland Printing plant (for over 55 years) |
8/13/1920 |
Barge "Bluebird" chartered to Swan Island for Baptismal service. 219 Baptized. |
9/19/1920 |
Carl Deffenbaugh began playing in the orchestra (for over 55 years) |
11/17/1920 |
Clifford Baltzell composed "Harvest Time," and more than 225 songs since that time |
2/23/1921 |
Literature distributed by air drop "Sky Pilot" |
4/24/1921 |
First missionary boat "Morning Star I" |
6/26/1921 |
Tabernacle is dedicated on Camp Grounds at 52nd and Duke St. Portland, OR. |
10/13/1921 |
The 1 million mark was first reached for all literature printed in the Portland plant in one year |
6/9/1922 |
New Church built at 6th and Burnside St. Portland, OR |
6/18/1922 |
Last service at Front and Burnside |
8/27/1922 |
Headquarters Church at Sixth & Burnside dedicated |
10/7/1922 |
1st Radio Broadcast from Stubbs Electric in Portland, OR |
?/?/1923 |
Phil Brown began playing the piano for church. He wrote his first hymn in 1934 and more than 250 since then |
8/17/1925 |
First Gospel trip by boat, Morning Star III, to Puget Sound |
9/23/1930 |
The wall of the Sixth & Burnside headquarters was moved |
5/9/1932 |
First annual church concert in Portland |
6/20/1936 |
Florence crawford died and Ray Crawford became General Overseer |
12/7/1946 |
A series of Bible Studies curriculum is published |
12/22/1947 |
First annual Sunday School program is held |
10/10/1948 |
George Hughes left on first missionary trip to Africa |
7/25/1950 |
First trip by Lower Light and crew |
2/12/1953 |
Art Allen & family went to Japan as missionaries |
11/26/1956 |
First Apostolic Faith missionaries left for the West Indies |
9/28/1958 |
First camp meeting in Century, Florida |
8/2/1959 |
First Camp Meeting held in Lagos, Nigeria |
8/19/1961 |
First Midwest Camp meeting held at Edwardsville, llinois |
6/4/1965 |
Loyce Carver becomes General Overseer |
3/23/1966 |
Harold & Sally Barrett went to Korea as missionaries |
5/19/1980 |
Church office moved to 6615 SE 52nd Ave |
5/23/1980 |
Farewell service held at Sixth abd Burnside |
5/27/1984 |
Church at 5601 SE Duke Street dedicated |
7/10/1993 |
Dwight Baltzell appointed General Overseer |
6/18/1998 |
Church website went live |
7/8/2000 |
Darrel Lee became Supreintendent General |
7/8/2006 |
100 Year Anniversary Celebration |