Azusa Lecture and Spirit of Azusa Award

     The Dixon Pentecostal Research Center launched the annual Azusa Lecture and Spirit of Azusa Award in 2006 in conjunction with the centennial of the renowned Azusa Street revival in Los Angeles. The revival began when African-American Pastor William J. Seymour preached a message of Spirit baptism following salvation and sanctification. What started as a home prayer meeting attracted throngs of seekers as hundreds traveled to the Azusa Street Mission, received a personal baptism of the Holy Spirit, and took that message to their homes, churches, and communities. The Pentecostal Movement quickly became a great missionary movement, and the twentieth century came to be called the “Century of the Holy Spirit.”

Azusa Lectures

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2024
Lee Roy Martin — In Spirit and in Truth: Renewing Biblical Worship

2023
Dale M. Coulter — Sanctified Sound: The Development of Blues, Jazz, and Gospel Within the Sanctified Churches

2022
​Julie Martinez — ​From Jerusalem to Pyongyang: Local Experiences of the Global Pentecostal Movement

2021
Dale M. Coulter — The Azusa Street Revival and William Seymour’s Pentecostal Vision

2020
David G. Roebuck — Unto the Least of These: Roots and Fruit of Church of God Benevolence Ministries

2019
Lisa Stephenson — Unto the Least of These: Biblical and Theological Foundations for Benevolence

2018
French L. Arrington — To the Ends of the Earth: A Biblical Look at the Global Pentecostal Movement

2017
Louis F. Morgan — Fanning the Flame: Reflections on a Century of Church of God Education

2016
Wilfredo Estrada Adorno — Pentecost's Island Journey: Azusa to Hawaii to Puerto Rico

2015
Estrelda Y. Alexander — From Azusa to Cleveland: Embracing Our Common Heritage

2014
Rickie D. Moore — From Generation to Generation: The Call of the Word, the Cry of the Spirit, the Turning of Hearts

2013
Alec Rowlands — Standing at the Crossroads: God's Guiding Presence in Revival

2012
John Christopher Thomas — 'In the Spirit on the Lord's Day': The Holy Spirit in the Book of Revelation

2011
David G. Roebuck — Hastening the Gospel to Every Land: Church of God Pioneers and the Great Commission

2010
Douglas LeRoy — Stories from the Field: A Century of Great Commission Obedience

2009
Vinson Synan — Growing Up Pentecostal: An Eyewitness Remembers the Century of the Holy Spirit

2008
David G. Roebuck — Fire in the Tent: The 1908 Cleveland Revival

2007
Cecil M. Robeck — The People of the Azusa Street Mission

2006
J. Lee Grady — Pentecostalism: A Century after the Azusa Street Revival

Spirit of Azusa Award Recipients

2024
​Delton Alford
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2023
Harold L. Bare

2022
Peter A. Thomas

2021
Estrelda Y. Alexander

2020
John D. Nichols (posthumous) & John Gregory

2019
David B. Lorency

2018
R. Lamar Vest

2017
Paul L. Walker

2016
Victor Pagán

2015
Wallace J. Sibley

2014
James M. Beaty

2013
R. Hollis Gause

2012
French L Arrington

2011
Margaret Gaines

2010
Lovell R. Cary

2009
Vinson Synan & Bill F. Sheeks

2008
T. L. Lowery

2007
Ray H. Hughes Sr.

2006
Robert E. Fisher (posthumous)