Humble Beginning

During the hot, humid summer months of 1921, a Holy-Ghost-filled lady by the name of Lydia Baggett prevailed upon her husband, Bill, to inivte a Pentecostal preacher to come and preach a meeting in the North End of town. She had heard him as he preached in the south end of town, and she liked what she heard. So it was that Bro. Fogelmann, assisted by several gospel workers including Sister Baggett's Sister, Betty Dyess, began preaching under the trees at the end of Gulf, on Pope Stree, in Beaumont.

REvival was born, and the work grew, assisted by Sis. Baggett and her sister, Betty Dyess George. Bro. Fogelmann, Bro. "Doc" Havens, and a co-worker, Bro. Elliott Hoffpauir, came to Pope and Gulf and began preaching under the trees at this location. In those days, they preached every night and prayed everyday. Soon, Bro. Fogelmann became wear. It was then that he gave the Macedonian Call to Bro. and Sis. E. E. Bohannan of Bon Wier, Texas.

Revival fires burned high. Bro. and Sis. Bohannan came and seup a tent under the trees at Gulf and Pope Streets and a Church was born.

Many great men of God came through Beaumont to preach. One of these was Bro. D. C. O. Opperman, a great leader in those days and a founder of Asseblies of God. Sis. Pearl Bohannan later said that Bro. Opperman's ministry soothed and established the growing body of believers and the work flourished again.

During these early days, ministers and workers were few and after a while, the Bohannan's began to feel an urge to spread the gospel to other areas that needed truth. They left the church in the charge of Sis. Betty Dyess George as they went on to conduct other revivals.

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