It's also the story about its price: exhaustion, insomnia, nervous breakdowns, sexual scandals, loneliness, and the notorious public disgrace that nearly destroyed her.
Sister Aimee was a scamp in school, a young widow in China. She prayed for the healing of hundreds of thousands of people, founded the Foursquare Church, and built a Pentecostal temple in Los Angeles of Hollywood-epic dimensions (Charlie Chaplin advised her on sets).īut this is not just a story of McPherson's cult of fame. Buy a copy of Sister Aimee : The Life of Aimee Semple Mcpherson book by Daniel Mark Epstein. Her ministry was rolled out in tents, concert halls, boxing rings, and speakeasies. Latinos and Black Americans loved her because they knew she cared for them. She preached up and down the United States, traveling in a 1912 Packard with her mother and her children - and without a man to fix flat tires. Sister Aimee championed and won the hearts of the police and fire departments in Los Angeles and made a huge impact on the untouchables of her society: the Ku Klux Klan and the Gypsies. Once she answered the divine calling, Aimee Semple McPherson rose fast from unfulfilled housewife in Rhode Island to "miracle woman" - the most enigmatic, pioneering, media-savvy Christian evangelist in the country. Sister Aimee was a scamp in school, a young widow in China, and a neurotic housewife in Rhode Island, but when the Lord spoke to her, she accepted her ministry. The true story of America's first superstar evangelist that "fills a significant gap in the history of revivalism" ( The New York Times Book Review ).
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