Ever since my wife and I lived in Egypt in the late 1980s I have been intrigued with the founder of the Holiness Movement Church in Egypt (affiliated with The Free Methodist Church, internationally). A couple years ago I finally had the time to focus on researching and writing up his story.
This past week the article was finally published in the Canadian Journal of Pentecostal-Charismatic Christianity.
Here is a brief abstract; the full article can be read here.
Abstract
The life of Herbert Randall (1865-1938) leads us through a series of uniquely inter-connecting occurrences on the international stage. From rural eastern Ontario in the newly-minted Dominion of Canada (1867), to the churning spiritual environment within the worldwide holiness/higher-life/Keswick movement (1870s-1920s), the triumphalistic period of the British Empire following the Second Anglo-Sudan War (1896-98), eight years of village ministry during the British occupation of Ottoman Egypt (1899-1906), to his instrumental role in the ‘baptism in the Holy Spirit’ of Aimee Kennedy (1907) [later, Aimee Semple McPherson, flamboyant founder of the International Foursquare Church], and not least, initiating two separate Protestant denominations in Egypt, Randall participates in a perfect storm of historical, social and spiritual events.
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