James Gordon Lindsay
| Gordon Lindsay | |
|---|---|
| Born |
June 18, 1906 Zion, Illinois |
| Died | April 1, 1973 (aged 66) Dallas, Texas |
| Occupation | Pentecostal evangelist, writer, pastor |
James Gordon Lindsay (June 18, 1906 – April 1, 1973) was a revivialist preacher, author, and founder of Christ for the Nations Institute.
Born in Zion, Illinois, Lindsay's parents were disciples of John Alexander Dowie, the father of healing revivalism in America. After the family moved to Portland, Oregon, the young boy was influenced by John G. Lake and converted by Charles Fox Parham. At the age of eighteen he began his ministry as a traveling evangelist conducting meetings in Assembly of God churches and other Pentecostal groups.
James Gordon Lindsay was born and raised in an atmosphere of healing and Pentecostal experience. He was born in Zion City, Illinois, on June 18, 1906. His parents were Thomas Lindsay and Effie (Ramsey) Lindsay. They were followers of John Alexander Dowie, a famous healing evangelist. When the city went bankrupt, after the fall of Dowie, the Lindsay family moved to a Christian community in California, led by Pisgah Finis E. Yoakum, and then to Portland, Oregon. He converted during a meeting led by Charles Fox Parham, the initiator of the Pentecostal movement in Topeka, Kansas. He then developed a relationship with John G. Lake, who started the Divine Healing Mission, in Spokane, Washington and Portland, Oregon. Lindsay traveled with Lake in the campaigns of California and the southern states. Then he became a pastor of a Foursquare Gospel church in California, but returned to Oregon, where he married Freda Schimpf.
When World War II broke out, Lindsay accepted a call to become pastor of a church in Ashland, Oregon in early 1940. He first heard William Branham in a meeting in Sacramento and, after meeting with him, they both agreed that Lindsay should act as Branham's campaign manager. In 1947 he resigned his pastoral position to become campaign manager for Branham. In order to promote the campaign, Lindsay started the "Voice of Healing" in April 1948, a magazine of wide circulation, particularly in the southern US. The first issue listed William Branham as the publisher, Gordon Lindsay as Editor, Jack Moore as Associate Editor and Anna Jeanne Moore as Circulation Editor.
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