women’s missionary societies provided every kind of support and literature, and held missionary conventions and institutes. Groups such as A. B. Simpson’s Christian and Missionary Alliance trained and supported women in missionary activity, and many CMA women became leaders in the early Pentecostal revival. Surely the consecration and mobility of women missionaries became a main channel for the dispersion of the Pentecostal message around the world. ———————————————————— Flower, J. Roswell Maria