[Scott Pitta]

Lydia Swinton (1876-1948) was a Peniel Mission worker who assisted Selma Nelson at the Peniel Mission in Fresno, Ca. She briefly aided survivors of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake who had settled in Alameda, Ca.

In 1920, she became pastor of the Pentecostal Mission in Stockton. She ran the mission and had a small Bible school to train mission workers and ministers. She pastored there until her passing in 1948.