After 35 years of itinerant ministry, in 1918, at the age of 74 Maria Woodworth-Etter (1844-1924) decided to pick the city of Indianapolis to build her home church. The call to build the Woodwood-Etter Tabernacle on the West side of Indianapolis came to her in a vision.
The 500 seats wooden tabernacle was considered a mega-church then. It was considered one of the largest Holiness-Pentecostal churches in the US at that time.
The church was launched in the middle of a Spanish flu outbreak that forced the city officials to put a curfew (stay home orders) in place. A total of 3,000 people died during that outbreak which also led to a total of 3,000 orphans.
That’s the season that God picked to launch a new revival and a new church led by a 74 years old woman known as a healing evangelist. Many were healed while attending Woodworth-Etter’s services during that time.
The curfew from city officials almost prevented Aimee Semple McPherson’s visit to the Tabernacle to go see Maria Woodworth-Etter preach. But in the last minute, the curfew was lifted and Aimee was able to attend the service.
The 500 seats wooden tabernacle was considered a mega-church then. It was considered one of the largest Holiness-Pentecostal churches in the US at that time.
The church was launched in the middle of a Spanish flu outbreak that forced the city officials to put a curfew (stay home orders) in place. A total of 3,000 people died during that outbreak which also led to a total of 3,000 orphans.
That’s the season that God picked to launch a new revival and a new church led by a 74 years old woman known as a healing evangelist. Many were healed while attending Woodworth-Etter’s services during that time.
The curfew from city officials almost prevented Aimee Semple McPherson’s visit to the Tabernacle to go see Maria Woodworth-Etter preach. But in the last minute, the curfew was lifted and Aimee was able to attend the service.
After 35 years of itinerant ministry, in 1918, at the age of 74 Maria Woodworth-Etter (1844-1924) decided to pick the city of Indianapolis to build her home church. The call to build the Woodwood-Etter Tabernacle on the West side of Indianapolis came to her in a vision.
The 500 seats wooden tabernacle was considered a mega-church then. It was considered one of the largest Holiness-Pentecostal churches in the US at that time.
The church was launched in the middle of a Spanish flu outbreak that forced the city officials to put a curfew (stay home orders) in place. A total of 3,000 people died during that outbreak which also led to a total of 3,000 orphans.
That’s the season that God picked to launch a new revival and a new church led by a 74 years old woman known as a healing evangelist. Many were healed while attending Woodworth-Etter’s services during that time.
The curfew from city officials almost prevented Aimee Semple McPherson’s visit to the Tabernacle to go see Maria Woodworth-Etter preach. But in the last minute, the curfew was lifted and Aimee was able to attend the service.
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