Welcome back to another episode of five minutes in church history. This is our third installment in our California tour.

We started in 1769. Last week when we were together we made it up to 1906 in Azusa Street and

we're only going to jump ahead a few years to 1918. This was the year that Sister Amy Semple McPherson, known as just Sister Amy or sometimes

known as just sister came to California.

Sister Amy has got to be one of the most colorful figures in American church history,

certainly in the 1920s and 1930s, if not one of the most colorful figures of all of American

church history.

Dr Bob Godfrey, church historian, likes to tell the story of when Charles Lindbergh and

Woodrow Wilson and Amy Semple McPherson all got off a plane in Los Angeles, California. And guess who had the largest crowd to greet them,

Sister Amy.

Well, who is she and what do we need to know about her?

She was born on October 9, 1890. She was born Amy Elizabeth

Kennedy in Ontario, Canada. She married three times. First, she married Robert Semple and after two years of

marriage, he died. Then she married Harold McPherson and they were married for nine

years and then divorced and then a

third husband named David Hutton was married to her for three years and they

divorced well let's look at her work.

She was showing her future calling as an evangelist and as a preacher in high school when she

would rail against the teaching of evolution in schools.

But she felt conviction under herself and she just could not find any resolution to it.

And in 1907, she met Robert Simple.

He was an evangelist. He was from Ireland.

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