[Scott Pitta]

The latest data was a newspaper archive that begins in 1918. Which is 12 years after Azusa Street.

So the Pentecostal Mission is already up and running in Tulare, California. I was able to chronicle who pastored there from 1918 until the mid 1950's.

Early names of pastors and evangelists who had revivals there include:

A.F. Varnell was the pastor in 1918.

JJ Mundy (PAW)was pastor in 1920. He was a PAW official.

1922 evangelist W.M. Carson, from Los Angeles has a revival there.
1923 evangelist E.M. Walker is in town.
1923 D.C. Churchill is the speaker. He is PAW. He was a PAW official.
1927 H.A. Smith, from Texas is the evangelist.
1927 JJ Mundy is no longer the pastor.
1928 Carl Anderson is pastor.
1928 E. Raidies of Los Angeles is the evangelist.
1929 G.O. Burton of Indianapolis is the evangelist
1930 Garland Leonard is pastor for a year and then leaves for China as a missionary where he is killed. He was a student of Harry Morse.
1930 Frank Bales is pastor.
1932 Evangelist H.W. Coulon in town from Pasadena.
1934 Evangelist Leo Daffern is in town. He will later be pastor.
1935 A.B. Freeborn is pastor.
1935 Evangelist Estelle Steele in town.
1936 Leo Sampson Daffern is pastor.
1936- 1945 Paul Leak is pastor
1938-1939 Oma Ellis has a tent church on the edge of town.
1952-1955 Guy F. Hodgson is pastor.

Now to hunt these people down to see if their family members have pictures, diaries, etc.

There was more than one Pentecostal Church in town and the papers did not always distinguish between them. I use the addresses, not the church names to keep them straight.

This specific church was PAW and then ended up UPC. Not sure how many other churches have that history. There was no Peniel mission in Tulare, which is odd.

This is typical of the data that I am gathering.