Word had also reached the African American leaders Charles Price Jones and Charles Harrison Mason, co-founders of the Church of God in Christ. In February 1907 Pastor Mason, accompanied by J. A. Jeter and J. D. Young, traveled from Memphis to Los Angeles to see for themselves what the Azusa Street revival had to offer. Their stay lasted six weeks, and before it was over Mason and J. A. Jeter had spoken in tongues.
