Born June 4, 1873 in Muscatine, Iowa, Charles Fox Parham was a holiness preacher, evangelist, and founder of the Bethel Healing Home and Bible school in Topeka, Kansas. He became the self-proclaimed Projector of the Apostolic Faith Movement, where he popularized the teaching that the “Bible evidence” of baptism in the Holy Spirit is speaking in other tongues. A small number of Apostolic Faith churches that he led, are located primarily in the south-central region of the United States.

As a young boy, Parham was quite ill. When he received healing through prayer, he determined that he…