Pentecostal preacher Aimee Semple McPherson was a multimedia sensation and a celebrity

before her time, but she also fed a million people in depression, error, Los Angeles.

And she lives on in a global movement that is the fastest growing face of Christianity

today.

She's a woman doing this at a time when not very many men or women are thinking this way.

So I've got a church, but not only do I have a church, I've got a radio station.

Not only do I have a radio station, but I'm feeding everybody in Los Angeles.

How many ways can I get this message out that that's possible?

And maybe that's a little bit, you know, televangelist, but televangelist can be very

much one-sided.

You do not see very many televangelist today figuring out how they're going to feed the

poor.

I'm Christopher Tiffett on Being.

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The closest thing to Oprah Winfrey in early 20th century America may have been a Pentecostal

preacher.

Aimee Semple McPherson was the first woman to receive a license from the FCC.

She built a 5,000 seat temple in Los Angeles and helped feed over a million people during

the Great Depression.

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