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The Historic Legacy of Zion's Christian

In the Beginning...

Christian of Zion City, IL holds an unsung place of distinction in the history of the early Pentecostal movement of the last century. It's humble beginnings were birthed in the womb of Pentecostal revival, tried in the fires of persecution, and matured into an established launch pad for evangelists, missionaries, and District and national leaders, both within the Assemblies of God, and into the Pentecostal world in general.

Unlike most Pentecostal churches worldwide, our beginnings did not trace back to the Azusa revival , but leaders from that revival did fan the flames, sparked a few months before by the father of the modern pentecostal movement, Charles Fox Parham.

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