Bernt Berntsen

Bernt Berntsen , also known as Brother B. Berntsen, was a NorwegianAmerican Protestant Christian missionary to China. In 1904, Berntsen and his wife Magna was able to preach along with several other independent Norwegian missionaries in a mission station in Damingfu of Zhili Province. Influenced by the 1906 Azusa Street Revival, he later founded the Apostolic Faith Mission in China with a group of American missionaries associated with the Pentecostal movement. His evangelism had a profound influence on the early coworkers of the True Jesus Church, namely Zhang Lingsheng and Paul Wei, and he is regarded as one of the early missionary progenitors of Pentecostalism in China.

Bernt Berntsen was born in Larvik, in Vestfold county, Norway. Married to Magna Berg , he emigrated to the United States in 1893 and was employed as a storekeeper in a local grocery store. He resided in Chicago, Illinois for seven years and was naturalized as a United States citizen at the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois on September 6, 1904. His son Henry Berntsen, was born at Chicago in August 1900.

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