Another tiennial conference focused attention on the growth of the Pentecostal movement since 1906. Leaders convened near their birth place "Azusa Street". Nearly 2,200 delegates from 42 countries gathered and held their 19th Pentecostal World Conference (PWC) in Los Angeles. "We don't need another conference. What we need is another confrontation with the Holy Ghost," Chairman Thomas E. Trask told the delegates during the opening service. Crossing racial, gender and denominational barriers, conferencegoers representing the Church of God, Church of God in Christ, Assemblies of God, Church of the Foursquare Gospel, the International Pentecostal Holiness Church and a host of independent churches attended the three-day event.

David Yonggi Cho, pastor of Yoido Full Gospel Church in Seoul, South Korea, urged American churches to release women in ministry. "God is using women for the growth of the church," Cho said. Bishop Barbara Amos, pastor of Faith Deliverance Christian Center urged listeners to avoid discrimination in ministry. In the early days the Los Angeles Times reported on the Azusa Street Revival with harsh criticism, calling the revival a "new sect of fanatics breaking loose." The paper reversed its stance nearly a century later and now credits Pentecostals "with reshaping global Christianity."

The article went on to describe multi million dollar ministries of Bishop Charles Blake [just completed a approx. $65 million Cathedral in LA], Fred Price, Bishop Kenneth Ulmer whose 11,000 member church recently purchased the Forum, former home of the Los Angeles Lakers. The group at the conference mapped out strategies to win the masses to Christ. Trask, who general superintendent of the Assemblies of God, was re-elected to a second term as chairman of the PWC. (Charisma Magazine, August 2001, pp. 26, 27)