The following pages offer a consideration of the meaning of Pentecostal experience as understood by women and men who helped shape the early Assemblies of God ethos. The chapters begin with brief biographical sketches of some whose activities helped mold an Assemblies of God sense of purpose and meaning. These men and women communicated to thousands of others what they perceived Pentecostal experience to offer. In interpreting the experience they also presented the Assemblies of God, a denomination