John G. Lake

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John G Lake

John Graham Lake (born March 18, 1870 in West Perth Township, Ontario , † September 16, 1935 in Spokane , Washington ) was a Canadian healing evangelist and missionary , and founder of the Apostolic Faith Mission of South Africa.

Life

John Graham Lake was born in West Perth Township, Ontario in 1870 and grew up in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan . In 1891 he is said to have been ordained in a Methodist congregation, but turned to a different profession and worked in the newspaper and real estate business. In 1893 he married Jennie Stephens († 1908), who soon fell ill with tuberculosis . Due to the incurable illness of his wife, Lake went to the spiritual healer John Alexander Dowie . After Dowie's prayer is said to have brought about a recovery, Lake joined his church and in 1901 moved to the city of Zion City, Illinois, which he founded . Here he saw the success and decline of the theocrat Dowie. After Charles Fox Parham evangelized and spread the new Pentecostal doctrine in Zion City in September 1906 , Lake joined the movement and is believed to have received the baptism of the Holy Ghost in 1907 . Together with FF Bosworth he visited Azusa Street in Los Angeles , from where the Pentecostal movement had started the year before. From then on, Lake and Bosworth acted separately as Pentecostal healing evangelists and practiced Christian spiritual healing like Dowie once did.

Following his inner drive for missionary activity, Lake traveled to South Africa in 1908 with his family and his friend Thomas Hezmalhalch († 1934) - where the Dowies Church already had a branch - and founded the Apostolic Faith Mission . After the death of his first wife and an extremely successful missionary work, Lake returned from Johannesburg to the USA in 1913 , where he finally married Florence Switzer as a second marriage. In Spokane, Washington , he opened "Healing Rooms" dedicated to spiritual healing in 1915, where he returned to the end of his life after moving several times to Portland, Oregon and Houston, Texas . During these years he was supported in his ministry by the later Pentecostal pastor James Gordon Lindsay .

His work, as well as the "Healing Rooms Ministries" opened in Spokane in 1999, is continued today by the international organization John G. Lake Ministries .

literature

  • Lyton Chandomba, The History of Apostolic Faith Mission and Other Pentecostal Missions in South Africa , AuthorHouse, Bloomington, Indiana, 2010
  • Kenneth Copeland, John G. Lake: His Life, His Sermons, His Boldness of Faith , Harrison House Publishers, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 2013
  • Roberts Liardon, John G. Lake: The Complete Collection of His Life Teachings , Whitaker House, New Kensington, Pennsylvania, 2005
  • Talbert Morgan, John G. Lake's Life and Diary , AuthorHouse, Bloomington, Indiana, 2006

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cecil M. Robeck, The Azusa Street Mission and Revival , Thomas Nelson Inc., Nashville, Tennessee 2006, p. 275
  2. ↑ Roy Weremchuk, THUS Saith the Lord? , Deutscher Wissenschafts-Verlag, Baden-Baden 2019, p. 186
  3. ^ J. Gordon Melton, The Encyclopedia of Religious Phenomena , Visible Ink Press, Canton, Michigan 2008, p. 195
  4. ↑ Roy Weremchuk 2019, p 515
personal data
SURNAME Lake, John G.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lake, John Graham
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian preacher
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH West Perth Township, Ontario
DATE OF DEATH September 16, 1935
Place of death Spokane , Washington