Amy Semple McPherson was the most famous evangelist in North America.

She founded the Foursquare Church, one of the most influential Pentecostal denominations in the world.

She was also the first media superstar in American Christianity.

I am coming that they might have license and that they might have it more abundantly.

But perhaps, most famously, she founded America's first megachurch, the Angeles Temple in Los Angeles, California.

This magnificent building, the largest seating capacity church in the American continent, where we have 16,000 members, a Sunday school, a 4,500 children,

800 branch churches, and the work spreading.

Sister Amy had an undeniable superpower to draw crowds and command an audience as a preacher and a faith healer.

She was a showwoman, from her days in high school plays to her church services at Angelus Temple,

services that were more akin to Hollywood spectacles.

Give me a burden for souls, Lord.

Give me a love for the loss.

Let my heart bleed as thy own Lord.

Give me a burden for soul.

In the 1920s and 30s,

Pentecostalism was one of the only Christian movements of the day

that allowed women preachers.

But even within Pentecostalism or outside it in other denominations, she had no equal.

Today, her fingerprint is on some of the biggest names in the Pentecostal media escape, T.D. Jakes,

Joyce Mayer, Joel Osteen, Hillsong.

And as we explore this series, Amy's fingerprint is also upon some of the top advisors

in the White House. So, who is Amy Semple McPherson, really? And what does this Canadian-born

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