Pentecostal Leaders Minister in Coffeyville, Kansas
Coffeyville, KS–A remarkable convergence unfolded in Coffeyville, Kansas, as international Pentecostal leaders—invited by Pentecostal revivalist Dr. James F. Linzey—gathered in a city long marked by prophetic words, revival history, and divine assignment. On Saturday, November 8, 2025, just days before Veterans Day, the community welcomed Dr. Wonsuk Ma and Dr. Julie Ma of Oral Roberts University, global voices in Pentecostal scholarship whose ministry rekindled a century-old prophetic flame tied to Coffeyville.
A City Marked for Outpouring Since the Early 1900s
Few realize that Coffeyville stood at a crossroads of early Pentecostalism, linked both geographically and spiritually to the Topeka Outpouring of 1901.
A century ago, P. C. Nelson—the renowned Pentecostal theologian and foundational Assemblies of God leader—held revivals throughout Coffeyville and the surrounding region. He also ministered at the Pentecostal church pastored by Rev. F. L. Doyle, step-grandfather of Chaplain (MAJ) James F. Linzey, USA (Ret.). That congregation eventually became the Assembly of God Church of Coffeyville. After the death of Franklin Hall’s father, Carey F. Hall, his mother, Alice (Hart) Hall, later married Rev. Doyle following the passing of his wife.
Dr. Nelson and his ministry team regularly stopped at the Hall/Doyle family home at 1407 W. Eighth Street on their return trips to Southwestern Bible School in Enid, Oklahoma (now Nelson University in Waxahachie, Texas). Around the kitchen table, they shared testimonies of salvations, healings, and baptisms in the Holy Spirit from revival meetings in the town and across southeast Kansas.
Coffeyville was also the hometown of Linzey’s uncle, Franklin Hall, one of the most influential American Pentecostal revivalists of the mid-20th century. Under Hall’s ministry sat Kathryn Kuhlman and William Branham. His groundbreaking book ‘Atomic Power with God Through Prayer and Fasting’ shaped the ministries of Oral Roberts, A. A. Allen, T. L. Osborne, and many others.
Hall later conducted a ‘Hallelujah Parade’ with Aimee Semple McPherson in San Diego, where he founded Miracle Temple—his base for nationwide evangelistic crusades.
These early connections reveal Coffeyville’s often-overlooked role in shaping international revival currents.
Prophetic Words Over Coffeyville
Coffeyville’s spiritual assignment has been affirmed repeatedly by international prophetic voices. While flying over Coffeyville, Oral Roberts pointed to the land below and said:
Right there! A mighty move of the Holy Spirit will take place.
About thirty years ago, at a Believers’ Convention in Kansas City, Kenneth Copeland issued a public prophecy: Coffeyville, Coffeyville! Like the days of the Topeka Revival and the Azusa Street Revival, so shall the same outpouring of the Holy Spirit fall upon Coffeyville, Kansas. Watch! For the City of Coffeyville will be known for its great outpouring, just as in the days of the Azusa Street outpouring.
On July 21, 2024, at Spirit Life Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Julius White prophesied:
There’s a revival coming… to Tulsa, Oklahoma… to Coffeyville, Kansas… to Independence, Kansas… southeast Kansas, northeastern Oklahoma. The Lord’s army is rising. In the name of Jesus!
And in 2023, the late Rev. James Feltner, former pastor of Emanuel Chapel in South Coffeyville, recalled: I saw this revival in Coffeyville and the surrounding region in a prophetic dream in 1964 when I was 17 years old, living in Dayton, Ohio.
Feltner initiated a calling of all the pastors of Coffeyville to work and worship together with this goal in mind. Signs and wonders were documented and reported by Linzey.
ORU Pentecostal Leaders Step into the Prophetic Stream
For three consecutive years, professors from Oral Roberts University—Dr. Mark Hall, Dr. Bill Lyons, Dr. Julie Ma, and Dr. Wonsuk Ma—have ministered in Coffeyville, a historic center of Pentecostalism and birthplace of Pentecostal generals Rev. Franklin Hall and Dr. Verna Hall Linzey. Dr. Wonsuk Ma previously distributed 3,000 copies of Dr. Verna Linzey’s book ‘The Baptism with the Holy Spirit’ to 100 Bible schools and colleges in the Far East, where it became a standard text.
When Dr. Jim Linzey sent the pre-publication manuscript to Dr. Yonggi Cho, then pastor of the world’s largest church in Seoul, South Korea, requesting an endorsement on behalf of his mother, Dr. Cho entrusted the task to Dr. Samwhan Kim. Dr. Kim not only read and endorsed the book but later translated Dr. Cho’s keynote address for the 2006 Centennial of the Pentecostal Movement in Los Angeles. According to long-standing accounts, Dr. Cho’s centennial message appeared to closely follow Dr. Verna Linzey’s teaching in the book on ‘allos parakletos’ versus ‘eteros parakletos’—a recorded and preserved message seldom mentioned except by these two leaders who shared this remarkable connection. The Linzeys were present that evening, humbled and honored by the possibility that Verna Linzey’s work had influenced Dr. Cho’s thinking and, through him, impacted the global church.
It was into this atmosphere of prophetic history that Drs. Wonsuk and Julie Ma ministered. Dr. Wonsuk Ma, Dean of Oral Roberts University and former Director of the Oxford Centre for Mission Studies in the United Kingdom, is an acclaimed author and one of the world’s foremost Pentecostal theologians. He was invited to speak on his Pentecostal roots and his global leadership in Pentecostal scholarship.
His message affirmed that the flame of the Holy Spirit continues to sweep across the world. He drew powerful connections between covenant loyalty, spiritual legacy, and the way God often chooses overlooked places to shape His purposes. Dr. Julie Ma, Professor of Missions and Intercultural Studies at ORU, called pastors and civic leaders to fervent spiritual devotion, reminding them that genuine service flows from hearts reshaped by grace and aligned with God’s purposes.
Attendees Included
• Rev. Yves Kinangwa, First United Methodist Church of Coffeyville
• Rev. Leslie Brooks, Crossroads Community of Christ of Coffeyville
• Former Chaplain (CPT) Jason Sperling, Southern Baptist minister, Independence, Kansas
• Rabbi Yehoshua Othniel, Independence, Kansas
• Numerous other community leaders, clergy, and civic participants
Setting the Stage for What God Will Do Next
Event organizer Dr. James F. Linzey—graduate of the Billy Graham School of Evangelism, Fuller Theological Seminary, and matriculated in Advanced Greek at Westminster Theological Seminary—reflected: Coffeyville has carried a spiritual assignment for more than a century. The Mas’ presence brought prophetic confirmation that God is still watching this city and that He still uses small towns to shape international movements.
He added: God called me to Coffeyville—home of my mother’s clan. I came in 2021, praying for revival here and envisioning it. Over the past few years, I have been digging up the wells of Pentecostal revival here, backed by the prayers of many saints.
Local media and community participants sensed that this year’s gathering was more than a ceremony; it was a signpost, pointing toward the unfolding of long-spoken prophetic words over southeast Kansas.
The Montgomery County Chronicle and KFFG Radio provided two weeks of advance coverage as ministry leaders prayed and prepared for this convergence of international Pentecostal voices and local pastors.
Dr. James F. Linzey, who inherited and now faithfully stewards the intellectual property of his parents, Captain Stanford E. Linzey, Jr., CHC, USN (Ret.) and Dr. Verna Hall Linzey, is writing the first comprehensive history of Pentecostalism in Coffeyville, drawing upon archival research and family eyewitness accounts dating back to the 1920s.
(SOURCE: Dr. James F. Linzey via Christian Newswire)
