2.1 How Did the Pentecostal Movement Come to Canada?

[Alexander]

I would imagine and hope that early pentecostals began to organize themselves in order to encourage one another in their faith and common beliefs, as well as to learn from one another. How it spread in Canada doesn’t seem surprising as we see this in multiple church movements through history from Acts right through the middle ages and beyond.

[Curtis]

I think in the past some in the past felt Old Church’s they came out of required much more education in ministry and that some of the early Pentecostals thought Church would hinder the work of the Holy Spirit.

[ECO]

It’s true, sometimes people have believed that “organized” church institutions would hinder the work of the Spirit, but it is also true that grassroots and spontaneous movements that were common in early Pentecostalism can be hard to sustain. So it isn’t surprising that organization quickly followed in the early days of Pentecostalism.