Van Nuys
District of Los Angeles in the San Fernando Valley. At St Mark’s Episcopal Church there the rector, Dennis Bennett, told his congregation on 3 April 1960 that he had spoken in tongues.
Van Nuys is a district of Los Angeles in the San Fernando Valley. Dennis Bennett was rector of St Mark’s Church there, and under him its membership grew from about 500 to 2,500 by 1960 (An Episcopal Dictionary of the Church, Bennett, Dennis Joseph). The Episcopal Church’s dictionary names St Mark’s among several Californian parishes where a Pentecostal experience was reported in 1959 (An Episcopal Dictionary of the Church, Charismatic Renewal, or Neo-Pentecostalism). See the Charismatic Renewal.
What happened here
- 1960 to 1967, firm dateThe Charismatic Renewal
Speaking in tongues and other gifts associated with Pentecostalism appear in the older churches. An Episcopal rector in California tells his parish of his experience in 1960, and Catholics date their charismatic renewal from a retreat of students near Pittsburgh in 1967.