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Dunn, NC Revival
William Seymour announced in The Apostolic Faith that “Bro. G.B. Cashwell who
came from North Carolina for his Pentecost, has returned on his way rejoicing to
carry the good news of the Pentecost to the hungry souls there.” In December,
1906, Cashwell led a three-week revival meeting in an old tobacco warehouse in
Dunn, NC, that introduced Pentecost to the entire region.
Over the next two years, Cashwell was instrumental in leading hundreds into
Pentecost, including M.M. Pinson, who later became one of the first executive
presbyters of the Assemblies of God; A.J. Tomlinson, who founded the Church of
God (Cleveland, TN), N.J. Holmes of Greenville, SC, founder of Holmes College of
the Bible and J.H. King.
As a result of Cashwell's revival, the Holiness Church of NC and the
Fire-Baptized Holiness Church, which shared common theologies and visions,
merged in Falcon, NC, just a few miles from the Dunn Revival site, to form the
Pentecostal Holiness Church. Over the following decades, the new denomination
consolidated its theology and expanded to other parts of the country. In the
1950's, the IPHC joined the National Association of Evangelicals. It was
instrumental in the formation of the Pentecostal and Charismatic Churches of
North America, a racially inclusive organization which grew out of the Memphis
Miracle in October, 1994.
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