Aimee Semple McPherson
Canadian-American evangelist and media celebrity (1890-1944) · Canada · Writers · Died at 53
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Something wrong?Aimee Elizabeth Semple McPherson, also known as Sister Aimee or Sister, was a Canadian-born American Pentecostal evangelist and media celebrity in the 1920s and 1930s, famous for founding the Foursquare Church.
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Robert and Aimee Semple (1910)
Aimee Semple and her second husband Harold McPherson. For a time Harold traveled with his wife Aimee in the "Gospel Car" as an itinerant preacher.
Aimee Semple McPherson and her third husband, David L. Hutton, enjoying their honeymoon breakfast in 1932. Hutton assisted in some of McPherson's charity work before their divorce in 1934.
McPherson dedicating Angelus Temple in 1923
Sister Aimee Semple McPherson's Angelus Temple in Los Angeles, circa 1940s
McPherson (left) prepares Christmas food baskets (circa 1935)
Men wait in line at McPherson (Hutton)'s Angelus Temple Free Dining Hall & Commissary on Temple St.Writers from Canada 6
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Aimee Elizabeth Semple McPherson, also known as Sister Aimee or Sister, was a Canadian-born American Pentecostal evangelist and media celebrity in the 1920s and 1930s, famous for founding the Foursquare Church. McPherson pioneered the use of broadcast mass media for wider dissemination of both religious services and appeals for donations, using radio to draw both audience and revenue with the growing appeal of popular entertainment and incorporating stage techniques into her weekly sermons at Angelus Temple, an early megachurch.
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