FF Bosworth   aka  Fred Francis Bosworth

  Fred Francis Bosworth (1877-1958) also known as FF Bosworth was born on a farm near Utica, Nebraska. As a teenager, Bosworth was struck down with TB and was given up to die. But he was healed in a Methodist church under the ministry of a female evangelist by the name of Mattie Perry. Several years after his healing he attended Alexander Dowie's church in Zion City, Illinois, then came into Pentecost and attended Pentecostal services. Most of his later ministry was associated with the Christian and Missionary Alliance church. When Bosworth came into a Pentecostal experience in 1906, he had an intense desire to preach the gospel, leaving his business pursuits and stepping out in faith for his subsistence. In approximately 1909 he moved to Texas, and in 1910 he started a church in Dallas which was loosely affiliated with the Alliance church. He was one of the founders of the Assemblies of God in 1914 and was with them until 1918 when he had a disagreement on the initial evidence of the baptism of the Holy Ghost and withdrew. He then started another church in Dallas, affiliating with the Alliance church again, and his revival meetings in the 1920s were sponsored by the Christian and Missionary Alliance church.

During the 1920s he was known for his "big tent revival" and large auditorium meetings and his advocacy of faith healing, with people from all denominations attending. He was with the Alliance church until around 1934, then affiliated with them again in 1944. Starting around 1930 he began one of the early successful gospel radio ministries. Today he is best known for his book Christ the Healer. In 1958, the Lord told F. F. Bosworth that he had "finished his course," and he would go home to be with the Lord shortly. He announced this to his family. Word spread among ministers and friends, who began to come visit him to say goodbye. T.L. Osborn tells of arriving at Bosworth's house and hearing him shout, "Brother T.L.! This is the greatest day of my life! God has told me, I get to go Home to be with Him today! Hallelujah!" As friends and family gathered around his bedside, his eyes were opened to Heaven. Those in the room listened as he began saying hello to departed family and friends he was seeing in Heaven, and as he described the glories of Heaven he was seeing. Then he passed away a few hours later at 81 years of age, without sickness or disease. He simply went to sleep in the Lord.

 

  Be Ye Doers Of The Word - FF Bosworth circa 1954