McPherson, << muhk FUR suhn, >> Aimee Semple (1890-1944), a colorful American evangelist, founded the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel. She was a pioneer in religious broadcasting. She also founded the Lighthouse of International Foursquare Evangelism Bible College. McPherson stressed salvation, divine healing, baptism by the Holy Spirit, and the Second Coming of Christ. She worked as a revivalist in the Full Gospel Assembly from 1908 to 1910 and was a missionary in China in 1910 and 1911. She built Angelus Temple in Los Angeles in 1922. She began a Christian radio station, KFSG, in Los Angeles in 1924. She used the station to broadcast daily sermons to her followers. McPherson was the first woman to be granted a broadcast license by the Federal Radio Commission (now the Federal Communications Commission).
Aimee Kennedy was born on Oct. 9, 1890, in Salford, Ontario. She had two husbands, Robert Semple, an evangelist, and Harold McPherson, a salesman. Aimee Semple McPherson died on Sept. 27, 1944.
