Calling
Called back to Norfolk
Historical account — 1906
VBG Archives·Norfolk, US
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Modern language summary…
Lucy Farrow had been sold into slavery as a girl in Norfolk, Virginia. Decades later, after months at the center of the Azusa Street revival in Los Angeles -- where she was known for praying over people who then received the experience themselves -- she felt unmistakably called to return to Norfolk, the place she had been taken from, this time as a minister. The newspaper recorded her journey as it began.
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As reported in The Apostolic Faith, September 1906: "Mrs. Lucy F. Farrow, God's anointed handmaid, who came some four months ago from Houston, Texas, to Los Angeles, bringing the full Gospel, and whom God has greatly used as she laid her hands on many who have received the Pentecost and the gift of tongues, has now returned to Houston, en route to Norfolk, Va. This is her old home which she left as a girl, being sold into slavery in the south. The Lord, she feels, is now calling her back."
Source: The Apostolic Faith, Vol. 1 No. 1, September 1906. Public domain. View source