Apostolic Faith & Pentecostal Timetable of Key Events 1950 - 1960

APOSTOLIC FAITH & PENTECOSTAL BERNIE L. WADE, PHD

TIMETABLE OF KEY EVENTS

1950-1960

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APOSTOLIC FAITH & PENTECOSTAL TIMETABLE OF KEY EVENTS

Bernie L. Wade, Ph.D.

Cover Top: Apostolic Faith Church Portland Oregon circa 1910 Cover Bottom: Apostolic Faith Church of God W. 55th Street, Cleveland, Ohio circa 1931 Bishop G. B. Rowe, Bishop R.O. Cornell and their wives seated in the front row. Back row near the building, directly behind Bishop Rowe, Bishop George A. Wade (holding baby).

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Apostolic Faith & Pentecostal Timetable of Key Events 1950-1060 6th Edition ©2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2020, 2021 Bernie L. Wade, PhD

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FOREWARD

From the beginning of time the plan of God for His people was for them to have fellowship with Him. We see in Scripture that it was for the purpose of praising God that mankind was created. When Jesus ascended into Heaven, He left His followers with the promise that He would send the Comforter.

On the Day of Pentecost, the full earnest of our inheritance came in the form of the manifestation of the Holy Spirit as the disciples of Jesus Christ who had gathered in Jerusalem in an upper room, became the first group to receive the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in tongues. The whole would be impacted by those who were endued with this Power from on High.

Gerald Archie and Vesta Layne Magnum

Centuries later, many had mistakenly adopted the idea that receiving the Holy Spirit in the manner that 6

the disciples of Jesus Christ did on the Day of Pentecost was a thing of the past. Thankfully, some vehemently disagreed with that ideology. On January 1st1901 that changed forever when believers received the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in other tongues just like the disciples in the New Testament. This launched the greatest period of growth in the History of the Church.

Sister Verbia Rowe, Bishop Glenn Beecher (G. B.) Rowe, Sister Ida Haywood, Bishop G. T. Haywood and Unknown. In the back is a man who was referred to as “uncle Jack”.

Today, more than 5 generations later, the posterity of those early 1900’s Christ followers’ number in the hundreds of millions with some 25% of the worlds Christians believing in the baptism of the Holy Spirit!1 631 Million Pentecostals in 2014! Inevitably, Pentecostals will exceed 1 Billion worldwide! The flow of events is outlined in this historical timeline.

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More Than 1 in 4 Christians Are Pentecostal, Charismatic. Read more at http://www.christianpost.com/news/more-than-1-in-4-christians-are-pentecostal-charismatic65358/#FJ028o4Eu2ceEEA1.99

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Dedication To the Life and Ministry of Bishop Raymond Oscar & Ruth Cornell, founding Pastors of Apostolic Faith Church of God (1930-1971) 2030 W.55th Street, Cleveland Ohio.

Bishop Ray Cornell served as District Elder in the Pentecostal Assemblies of Jesus Christ (PAJC) (1931-1945). District Elder in the Pentecostal Assemblies of the World (PAW) including hosting the 1948 National Convention (1945-1954). Bishop and 1st Chairman of the Pentecostal Assemblies of Jesus Christ (PAJC) 1955-1971. The Cornell’s faithfully served, providing a church family to thousands including this author’s Grandparents, Bishop George Arthur & Lois Ethel Wade, George & Olive Ann Gillespie and parents Bishop Sanford Lee & Georgia Ann Wade.

The Cornell’s pastors were Bishop Glenn Beecher (G. B.) & Verbia Rowe who founded churches in Ligonier, Bourbon, Plymouth, Shelbyville, South Bend and Mishawaka, Indiana. In 1920, the Rowes planted what has become one of the most powerful and influential Pentecostal churches in the United States - Midway Gospel Tabernacle, in Mishawaka, Indiana (Now Apostolic Temple).

Bishop Rowe was selected as one of the first five original Bishops of the P.A.W (1925).

He also labored as an evangelist, scholar, singer and writer. Bishop Rowe became the lead Bishop at the death of Bishop G. T. Haywood (1931) and spearheaded the merger between the AC of JC (Apostolic Church of Jesus Christ) and the Pentecostal Assemblies of the World (PAW) that merger resulted in the creation of the Pentecostal Assemblies of Jesus Christ (PAJC) (1931-1945). In 1945 the PAJC merged with the PCI to become the United Pentecostal Church (UPC). Bishop Rowe served on the first Board of the UPC (1945-1948). Later, Bishop Rowe contributed to the fledgling IMA (International Ministerial Association (1954-1963) and led the Oneness Ministers Association (1950).

To the Life and Ministry of Charles Fox & Sarah Parham who became spiritual parents to all of us who are spirit filled. To the Life and Ministry of A. J. Tomlinson who, like the Parhams, stood the test of cultural bias to offer the world a vision of the Church of God that truly represents the people of the earth just as Apostle John saw: After this I beheld, and, see, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands.

(Revelation 7:9 King James 2000)

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Acknowledgements The vision for the book came out of decades of study and research on the topic of Apostolic Reformation. In this 6th Edition we have added a much broader world view of the history. We hope to continue to add information from around the World.

Special thanks to those who helped me in this process including the late Ralph E. Day Jr., Cindye Coates, PhD, Gary Garrett, PhD founder of Apostolic Archives, Bishop Sanford L. Wade, Melissa Kody and many others.

To Pastors Bernie & Blanca Wade of Life Church and Juan & Maricela Fuentes. Thank you for modeling servant leadership. www.lifechurchkentucky.com

To the memories of my mother, Pastor Georgia Wade who taught me, through her life so well lived, that the measure of men is in how they treat others.

To my paternal Grandparents Bishop George A. Lois Wade who left a life of sin to live for Jesus. To my maternal grandparents, George and Olive Gillespie who led their family to Jesus.

A tip of the hat to the faculty of my Alma Mater Life College http://www.lifecollege.education To Dr. Barney Phillips for his help, input and dedication.

To the ministers of the International Circle of Faith – ICOF, I am honored to serve with you. http://www.icof.net

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APOSTOLIC FAITH MOVEMENT FAMILY TREE 1901 – 1925

Apostolic Faith Movement 1902 - Present

Azusa Street 1906 Church of God In Christ (White) 1912

Church of God 1908

Apostolic Faith Church (UK) 1909

Apostolic Church of Wales 1916

General Association of Aposotlic Assemblies 1916 Pentecostal Assemblies (PAW) 1906 - 1918 Assemblies of God 1914

Apostolic Church of Pentecost 1921

Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada 1919

Apostolic Church of God 1922

Apostolic Faith 1909

Church of God in Christ 1907 Pentecostal Church of God 1919

Apostolic Assembly of the Faith in Christ Jesus 1925 Pentecostal Mission 1924

Mount Sinai Holy Church of America 1924

Pentecostal Assemblies of the World (PAW) 1918

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APOSTOLIC FAITH MOVEMENT FAMILY TREE 1923 – 2000

Apostolic Faith Movement 1902 - Present

Church of God 1908 Assemblies of God 1914

PAW 1918 COGOP 1923 ACJC 1927 Apostolic Faith COG 1932 ICOF 2001

PAJC 1954

COOLJC 1919

PAJC 1931

PMA 1925 PMI 1932

Bible Way 1957

Azusa Street 1906

Way of the Cross 1933

Bethel Min. Assoc.1934

Four Square1927

Bible Pattern 1939

Elim Fellowship 1932

Fire Baptized 1926 PEF 1936

COOLJC 1932

AMA 1941

Zion Assembly 1938

PAW re-org1938 UPC 1945

PC of Zion 1954 PCAF 1957

ALJC 1952

Global 1986

AWCF 1971

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Spiritual lineage of Charles Fox Parham (Partial listing) William Trotter Florence Crawford Arnulfo M. Lopez

Stephen (J. J.) Frazee

E.W. Doak

Agnes Osman Leberg

James Delk

George Studd

Andrew D. Urshan

C. H. Mason

Daniel C. O. Opperman

William Pendleton

Howard Goss

Jeannie Moore

E. R. Driver R. R. Booker J. Bowe

Millicent McClendon Warren Faye Carothers

Lucy Farrow

Glenn Cook

Mary Moise

Frank Bartleman

Leonard P. Adams

R. E. McAlister

Robert Parham William Seymour

William Durham

Lilian Thistlewaite

Garfield Thomas Haywood

Aimee Semple (McPherson) Frank Ewart

Elmer Kirk Fisher

Anna Hall

Henry Prentiss

Henry G. Rogers

G. B. Cashwell

Mack Pinson

John F. Lake

A. J. Tomlinson

Ethel Wright

A. H. Argue Fannie Dobson Lemuel C. Hall

Arthur G. Osterberg

Mary Arthur

Luigi Franceson

F. F. Bosworth

Tom Hezmallauch

William Hamner Piper Charles and Sarah Fox Parham

Anna Reiff Lydia Piper

Minnie Draper

Rachel Sizelove Charles W. Lowe

Rilda Cole Henry G. Tuthill

George Jeffreys

Nora Byrd

Lewi Pethrus

Mary Boddy

Thomas Ball Barratt

Alexander Boddy

Stephen Jeffreys

Mable Wise

Jonathan Paul

Stanley Frodsham

Susan Duncan

Smith Wigglesworth

C. F. Atherton

Cecil Polhill

A. G. Canada

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List of Abbreviations AAFCJ AAI ACANJC AC ACE ACFCJ ACJ ACJC ACOP AFC AFCOG AFMCG AG AsCJC ALJC AMA AOHCG

Apostolic Assembly of the Faith in Christ Jesus Apostolic Archives International Apostolic Christian Assembly of the Name of Jesus Christ Apostolic Church Apostolic Church of Ethiopia Apostolic Church of the Faith in Christ Jesus [Mexico] Apostolic Church of Jesus Apostolic Church of Jesus Christ [originally – Apostolic Churches of Jesus Christ] Apostolic Church of Pentecost [Canada] Apostolic Faith Churches [Hawaii] Apostolic Faith Church of God Apostolic Faith Missionary Church of God Assemblies of God Assemblies of the Church Jesus Christ Assemblies of the Lord Jesus Christ Apostolic Ministerial Association Apostolic Overcoming Holy Church of God [originally – Ethiopian Overcoming Holy Church of God]

ABC

Associated Brotherhood of Christians [originally – Associated Ministers of Jesus Christ]

AMJC BMA

Associated Ministers of Jesus Christ Bethel Ministerial Association [originally – Evangelistic Ministerial Alliance] Blessed Truth, The Bible Way Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ Worldwide Church of God (Apostolic) Church of God in Christ Jesus (Apostolic) Christian Gospel Spiritual Church [Mexico] Church of God in Christ Church of Jesus Christ, The Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ of the Apostolic Faith Church of the Living God, the Pillar and Ground of the Truth Church of the Lord Jesus Christ Christ Pentecostal Church [Yugoslavia] Center for the Study of Oneness Pentecostalism Christian Outlook, The

BT BWC CGA CGCJA CGSC COGIC CJC COOLJC CLGPGT CLJC CPC CSOP CO

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DPCM ECSA EDN ETBCAF ECJC EMA FCGCJN FPC FUCJCA GAAA GCGCA GR IBC ICOF ICOF CSU

Dictionary of Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements Evangelical Church in the Spirit of the Apostles [Russia] Enumeration District Number – U.S. Census Emmanuel Tabernacle Baptist Church Apostolic Faith Emmanuel’s Church in Jesus Christ Evangelistic Ministerial Alliance Free Holiness Church of God in Jesus’ Name First Pentecostal Church of Jesus Christ First United Church of Jesus Christ Apostolic General Assembly of Apostolic Assemblies Glorious Church of God in Christ Apostolic Good Report, The International Bible College International Circle of Faith www.icof.net

IPC JOAC KKK LWC MDS NBCGCP NIDPCM OSI PAJC PAW PCCN

Indonesia Pentecostal Church Jesus Only Apostolic Church Ku Klux Klan Light of the World Church [La Luz del Mundo - Mexico] Meat in Due Season New Bethel Church of God in Christ (Pentecostal)

PCAF PCI PHCG PMA PT SJC SPS TJC UPCI VW WG

International Circle of Faith Colleges, Seminaries and Universities (Now Life College) www.lifecollege.education

New International Dictionary of Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements

Oneness Studies Institute Pentecostal Assemblies of Jesus Christ Pentecostal Assemblies of the World A Pentecostal and Charismatic Churches of North America [originally – Pentecostal Fellowship of North America] Pentecostal Churches of the Apostolic Faith Pentecostal Church, Incorporated Pure Holiness Church of God Pentecostal Ministerial Alliance [renamed (1932) – Pentecostal Church, Inc.] Present Truth, The Spirit of Jesus Church [Japan] Society for Pentecostal Studies True Jesus Church [China] United Pentecostal Church International [originally – United Pentecostal Church, Inc.] Often referred to as the UPC Voice in the Wilderness, The Witness of God, The

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“I look upon all the world as my parish; thus far I mean, that, in whatever part of it I am, I judge it meet, right, and my bounden duty to declare unto all that are willing to hear, the glad tidings of salvation. This is the work which I know God has called me to; and sure, I am that His blessing attends it. Great encouragement have I, therefore, to be faithful in fulfilling the work He hath given me to do. His servant I am, and, as such, am employed according to the plain direction of His Word, ‘As I have opportunity, doing good unto all men’; and His providence clearly concurs with his Word; which has disengaged me from all things else, that I might singly attend on this very thing, ‘and go about doing good.’”

- John Wesley

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1950

January 24, Jack Moore, Gordon Lindsay, Ern Baxter, and F. F. Bosworth join William Branham in Houston at the Sam Houston Coliseum. The meetings grew, gathering as many as 8,000 people in a single service. It was here that the photograph of Rev. Branham with a supernatural halo of light above his head was taken. This event caused a great deal of controversy with some calling it a “Pillar of Fire”.

Branham’s people claimed it was real but many others denied its authenticity. Experts claim it was merely lighting and camera related. Today, people worship this picture and image. This type of manifestation was part of the mysticism invoked in Branham’s ministry.

There was always an emphasis on angelic visits, meetings with ‘spirit guides’ and other unbiblical manifestations and phenomena.

1950

Lester R. Thompson becomes Editor-in-Chief of the Pentecostal Herald.2

1950

April. Branham team visits Europe.

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August 24. Diamond A. Nobel received appointment as “State Overseer of Philippine Islands” from the COOLJC where he had been ordained three years earlier. Both certificates were signed by Bishop R. C. Lawson (Apostle) and S. E. Williams (Secretary).3

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September. The United Pentecostal Church disfellowships Raymond G. Hoekstra due to his association with William Branham and others connected to the growing group of mystics that included Hoekstra, David Walker, A.D. Van Hoose and a plethora of others.4

1950

Churches of God in Christ Jesus. The founder was Bishop Peter Bridges

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Bishop Carl Angle moved to Cleveland Ohio and came under the tutelage of Bishop Ray Oscar and Ruth Cornell who became like parents to him.

Bishop Angle used the Cornell’s church, Apostolic Faith Church of God, as

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Rev. Lester R. Thompson Obituary. Legacy.com King. Pg. 134. Avelina Acantilado Noble, the widow of Diamond Noble, who provided both original certificates during a personal interview in Pangasinan on 24 February 2013.

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“Notice to Ministers of the United Pentecostal Church.” Pentecostal Herald. Vol. 25 No. 9, in September 1950, p. 11.

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his home base. He preached many revivals there and many miracles were 1950

November 15, 1950. The first national Latter Rain convention in St. Louis, MO.5

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January. US Congressman William Upshaw, who had been crippled for 59 years as the result of an accident, said he was miraculously healed and had regained the ability to walk in a Branham meeting, further fueling Branham's fame. Upshaw sent a letter describing his healing claim to each member of Congress. Among the widespread media reports was a story in the Los Angeles Times that described it as "perhaps the most effective healing testimony this generation has ever seen". Upshaw died in November 1952, at the age of 86.

Sadly, this “testimony” has come under great scrutiny. William Upshaw was a notorious member of the KKK. The “testimony” seems like another ploy to prop up the KKK’s favorite minister.

1951

June 4, 1951. Alexander, now in Bible School, was still in prayer outside in fields long after midnight when he sensed a strange feeling of something pressing down upon him, a great light surrounding him and a heavenly being enfolding him. The boy was terrified and fled back to the Institute.6 The heavenly visitor entered the Institute with him, and in a few moments all the students were awake with the fear of God upon them. They began to cry out in repentance as God by his Spirit dealt with them. The next day the Spirit of God came again upon Alexander as he was given prophecies of God's moving in far off countries. The following day Alexander again saw the Lord in the Spirit, but this time

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According to William Faupel, "Thomas Wyatt brought the climaxing message at the first 'National Latter Rain Convention' in St. Louis on 15 November 1950” Winds from the North: Canadian Contributions to the Pentecostal Movement 6 http://www.revival-library.org/index.php/catalogues-menu/20th-century/20th-century-revival

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he began to speak slowly and distinctly the words he heard from the angel of God. No one could understand what he was saying, however, until another lad named Celsio (with even less education than Alexander), overcome with the Spirit of God markedly upon him, began to interpret.

These communications (written because he choked up when he tried to talk) were a challenge from God to pray and indeed the Institute became a center of prayer till the vacation time, when teams went out to preach the kingdom.

It was the beginning of new stirrings of the Spirit across the land. The Bible Institute continued in prayer for 4 months, 8-10 hours a day, weeping. Bricks became saturated; one young man prayed against the wall daily, weeping. After 6 hours the tear stains reached the floor, and after 8 hours had formed a puddle on floor. The Lord gave them prophecies of revival in Argentina and around the world. They were told the largest auditoriums would be filled, and this happened with the visit of Tommy Hicks to Argentina.7 1951

July. 1st issue of the Latter Rain Evangel. this publication marked the fulfillment of a prophecy delivered on January 28, 1949 that a paper called the Latter Rain Evangel would go out from the Bethesda Missionary Temple in Detroit.8

1951

Full Gospel Business Men's Fellowship International forms. Meets struggling Evangelist Oral Roberts and finances Oral Roberts along with a group of businessmen. They market the "experience".

They helped to organize Oral Robert's Los Angeles campaign which had over two hundred thousand people attending over sixteen days.

F.G.B.M.F.I. Boasts They Were The Force Behind Charismatics.9

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http://www.revival-library.org/index.php/catalogues-menu/20th-century/20th-century-revival Ibid. William Faupel, Winds from the North.

9 According to the testimony of Demos Shakarian, the International President of the F.G.B.M.F.I., in the Denver Post of Sept. 3rd, 72, "He believes his organization was the force behind the charismatic renewal movement. . ." And according to the introduction leaflet of the organization they say of him, "As surely as God endued Moses with divine direction to deliver Israel, He empowered Demos Shakarian, a California dairyman."

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1951

Nashville, TN. Bishop Carl Angle is discharged from the United States Marine Corp. He and his wife Frances become assistant pastors for S. L. Hale (and wife Daisy) at the Church of Jesus on 8th Avenue in North Nashville.10 Frances gives birth to their daughter Sherry Angel.11

1951

Bethel Ministerial Association is created from a name change of the Evangelical Ministerial Alliance.

1951

The Apostolic Faith Alliance (founded by Charles Parham) meets in Spearman Texas to discuss challenges primarily dealing with the growing Latter Rain Bishop A. F. (Doc) Varnell ministering Movement with opposition to ministers like William Branham and Oral Roberts. The older Apostolic Faith members are not receptive of the methods of these new Pentecostal “healers”. The rift ends with younger ministers including Robert Parham’s widow Pauline leaving. The group of 136 ministers and 83 churches divided nearly in half.12 Today, they remain headquartered in Baxter Springs with 109 ministers and about 50 churches.13

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July 3. The faction that withdrawals at Spearman, Texas form “Ministerial and Missionary Alliance of the Original Trinity Apostolic Faith, Inc. (MMAOTAF).

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It only took Howard Goss 6 years to make many of the UPC members his opponents and they repaid him by voting him out of the all-white group he has invested his life to craft. Like some (i.e., B. H. Hite’s widow, Bishop G. B. Rowe, Diamond A. Nobel, just to name a few) who Goss had railroaded out of the UPC, the official UPC ‘party line’ was that he “retired”. Some expected him to join back with the AG. In some measure he did.14

1952

John and Ruth Bell lead church to new facility for Emmanuel Church. Named changed to Revival Temple.

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www.christfamilychurchnashville.org Angle. Pg. 8.

Goff. Pg. 162.

Goff. Pg. 163.

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Christianity Without the Cross: A History of Salvation in Oneness Pentecostalism

By Thomas A. Fudge pg. 102

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1952

John & Ruth Bell at Revival Temple

Rex Humbard in Akron, Ohio, begins his televangelist program which will continue until 1983. At one time Humbard will have the largest network of television stations that carry a religious broadcast in the United States. His success in the new medium of television helps to build a "Cathedral of Tomorrow" at Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio.

Humbard recounts that he was inspired to go onto television while standing outside of O’Neil’s Department Store in Akron, Ohio. People were huddled around a television, marveling at a Cleveland Indian’s game.

Humbard, an Arkansas evangelist passing through town, felt called to become the evangelist to spread the Gospel via television. Humbard purchased an old movie theatre in Akron, christened it Calvary Temple, and began broadcasting.

1951

Fall. William Branham’s team ministers in South Africa. David du Plessis reported ‘I received a trans-ocean call from Brother Jacobs and my brother Justus du Plessis. They spoke from the Campgrounds (Johannesburg) at 7 p.m. and told me that the police report over 3,000 cars parked for the Branham Meeting that evening, The Tabernacle has been enlarged to accommodate 10,000, but it still is too small.

Mighty Miracles have been done already in the Name of Jesus and Johannesburg has never been shaken so wonderfully……Letters that came this week tell of marvelous cases of healing. One woman got out of her wheelchair and pushed it away herself. Others were healed of cancer.

A little boy with a paralyzed leg was healed overnight and the leg lengthened four inches.15

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David du Plessis, Pentecost magazine, Dec. 1951, p8

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1952

Newport News, VA. Apostolic Church of God in Christ in God. General Assembly in Newport News, VA, Elder J.C. Richardson was consecrated to the Office of Bishop. This allowed him to serve more broadly as the primary assistant to Bishop Ardrey.16

1952

The Glorious Church of God presiding bishop, S. C. Bass married a divorced woman. Approximately half of the 50-congregation church rejected Bass and reorganized under the leadership of W. O. Howard and took the name Original Glorious Church of God in Christ Apostolic Faith. The term original signifies the church’s claim to its history, demonstrated by the retention of the founding charter. Howard was succeeded by Bishop I. W. Hamiter, under whose leadership the church grew and developed a mission program in Haiti, Jamaica, and India.

Hamiter also led in the purchase of a convention center for the church’s annual meeting in Columbus, Ohio.17

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Chile / Argentina. Tommy Hicks was involved in revival in Latin America.

In 1952 he was conducting a series of meetings in California when God showed him a vision. While he was praying, he saw a map of South America covered with a vast field of golden wheat ripe for harvesting. The wheat turned into human beings calling him to come and help them.

He wrote in his Bible a prophecy he received about going by air to that land before two summers passed. Three months later, after an evangelistic crusade, a pastor's wife in California gave that same prophecy to him that he had written down. Cash began to arrive till he had enough to buy a one-way air ticket to Buenos Aires.

On his way there after meetings in Chile, the word Peron came to his mind. He asked the air stewardess if she knew what it meant. She told him Peron was the President of Argentina. After he made an appointment with the Minister of Religion, wanting to see the President, he prayed for the Minister's secretary who was limping. He was healed. So, the Minister made an appointment for Hicks to see the President. Through prayer the President was healed of an ugly eczema and gave Hicks the use of a stadium and free access to the state radio and press. The crusade was a spiritual breakthrough.18

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http://acocig.org/our-history.html https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/apostolicpentecostals 17

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http://www.revival-library.org/index.php/catalogues-menu/20th-century/20th-century-revival

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1952

Church of God, founded by A. J. Tomlinson in 1923 after he was removed as General Overseer from an organization of the same name that he began in 1906, is renamed the Church of God of Prophecy after civil action in court over who owned the rights to the name Church of God.

1952

March. Assemblies of the Lord Jesus Christ (ALJC) is organized when three allwhite Pentecostal groups merge: The Assemblies of Jesus Christ, the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the Jesus Only Apostolic Church of God. They use the charter of the old Apostolic Church of Jesus Christ (A. C. of J. C.) which became dormant at the merger of the PAJC and UPC in 1945. The official organizational meeting took place January 27-29, 1954.19 J. Frank Wilson is the National Secretary.20

1952

Original Glorious Church of God in Christ - Founded.

1952

April 5. Miami Florida. Bishop G. D. Peters is ordained into the ministry

by Bishop L. A. Parent, Bishop M. M. Hudson, and Bishop B. M. David at the Assemblies of the Lord Jesus Christ (ALJC) Midwinter Conference.

1952

Herald of Truth begins. By the 1960’s was heard on 238 radio stations and 50 television stations throughout the United States. In the seventy’s coverage grew to 468 radio stations and 152 television stations. Many broadcasters became household names in the Christian community. Men like Jams Walter Nichols, James Williford, Harold Hazelip, Batsell Barrett Baxter, Glenn Owen, Juan Monroy, Landon Saunders, Phillip Morrison and Randy Becton.

1952

Brazil also had revival. Edwin Orr visited each of the 25 states and territories in Brazil in 1952 seeing powerful moves of the spirit in his meetings which were supported by all denominations. The evangelical

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https://wikivisually.com/wiki/Assemblies_of_the_Lord_Jesus_Christ King. Pg. 134.

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church council declared that the year of 1952 saw the first of such a general spiritual awakening in the country's history. Many meetings had to be moved into soccer stadiums, some churches increased in numbers by 50% in one week, and the revival movement continued in local churches in Brazil.21 1952

June 14. Diamond A. Nobel joins the ALJC.22

1952

August. Ross Perry Paddock is elevated to Bishop in the PAW.23

1953

Elder Morris E. Golder resigned as Pastor of Christ Temple in Indianapolis, Indiana. He also resigned as Editor of the Christian Outlook the official paper of the Pentecostal Assemblies of the World and declined to renew his membership24

1953

June. MMAOTAF was changed to “Full Gospel Evangelistic Association” at a meeting in Wichita, KS. The Full Gospel Evangelistic Association (FGEA) incorporated in Texas. Ralph A. Durham is President, A “Hap” Watkins, Vice-President, and Glayron K. Rees – Secretary.25 Today the group has about 134 ministers and 31 churches.26

1953

Philippines. Lester Sumrall, started Bethel Temple in Manila in (now called Cathedral of Praise).27

1953

The Emmanuel Holiness Church forms from a split within the FireBaptized Holiness Church. The organizational meeting takes place at Whiteville, North Carolina.

1953

The loss of Bishop Morris Golder prompts a shake-up in the nascent reorganization efforts of the PAW. Newly appointed Bishop Ross P. Paddock is appointed Assistant Presiding Bishop of the PAW.

1953

The United Pentecostal Church General Conference. The UPC issued a statement

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http://www.revival-library.org/index.php/catalogues-menu/20th-century/20th-century-revival

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King. Pg. 134.

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https://www.apostolicarchives.com/articles/article/8795590/172897.htm 24 Apostolic Archives. Historical Timeline. www.apostolicarchives.com 25 http://fgeaonline.org/fgea-history 26 Goff. Pg. 163.

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Ibid Spirit and Schism, King. Pg. 14

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condemning the Revised Standard Version of the Bible. The General Conference opposed the RSV Bible because “ many passages concerning the fundamentals of our Christian faith and doctrine have been changed and are very misleading, namely, the virgin birth of Christ, remission of sins as taught in the New Testament, the deity of Christ, and other truths.”

Furthermore, the church denounced the translators of the RSV as “modernists and liberal scholars who do not believe or embrace the revealed truths of God’ s holy Word.” Church members, it declared, should use the King James Version of the Bible, because it was the most accurate translation.28 1953

Tofik Benedictus "Benny" Hinn Born. A Pentecostal pastor and televangelist. He is the host of This Is Your Day, a 30-minute television show on various religious networks, including Trinity Broadcasting Network, Daystar Television Network, Revelation TV, and The God Channel.

1953

December. Bishop Ray Cornell and the Apostolic Faith Church of God work with three couples who met in the home of Mr. And Mrs. Arthur Brown, Sr. for prayer and Bible study in Elyria. The small group soon began to hold Sunday services in the Junior Chamber of Commerce Hall on Harwood Street.

Bishop Cornell sends James and Helen Shriver to pastor the group. They rented a building at 1995 Lake Avenue, which was formerly a barbershop.29

1954

January. Gainesville, Florida. L. A. Romine preaches the dedication service for R. O. Varnum.30

1954

Brother and Sister Jack T. Langham announce they will go as missionaries to Liberia to replace the ailing Brother and Sister Parks.31

1954

Oral Robert’s first television program was broadcast on sixteen stations.

It was filmed in a studio, but in 1955 the program switched to his tent

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United Pentecostal Church International Manual (Hazelwood, Missouri: Pentecostal Publishing House, 1989), 14647.

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Abundant Life Christian Church. Elyria, Ohio. https://www.abundantlife4you.org/page/our-history

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Pentecostal Herald. February 1955. Pg. 22 31 Herald. Pg. 22

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meetings. For a time, his sermons were done in a studio, healing lines in the tent. Roberts dropped his program in 1967, when his tent came down for the last time. Gene Scott assisted Oral Roberts in establishing Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Gene Scott eventually joined the Pentecostal Assemblies of God denomination and for several years served in a variety of countries as an evangelist.

1954

George Randle Bollinger elected President of FGEA (Full Gospel Evangelical Association). He was considered a co-evangelist with T.L. Osborn and traveled to Latin America as often as finances allowed doing mission work in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Puerto Rico. 32

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MILDRED WICKS, LOUISE NANKIEVELL, and FERN HUFFSTUTLER. Mildred Wicks was one of the editors of Jack Coe's Herald of Healing magazine, which was founded in 1950, and she preached at the opening celebration for Coe's Dallas Revival Center in 1954.33

1954

August. Led by W. E. Kidson, The IMA, International Ministerial Alliance, is formed at Faith Pentecostal Church pastored by Earnest Shindoll. Members of the IMA were dissatisfied with the growing power of the church’s central organizations.34 The church was hosting a tent meeting and "sixteen ministers came to hear the presentation by Rev. Kidson." The result was that they all agreed to begin the International Ministerial Association and Rev. Kidson was elected as chairman pro tem of the association. W. E. Kidson become Chairman and his publication, The Herald of Truth, becomes the official publication.35

1954

"Pentecostal Church of Zion... French Lick, IN... As a youth in Kentucky, Luther S. Howard was converted by an independent Pentecostal minister and, in 1920, was ordained a minister of the Holy Bible Mission at Louisville... Upon the death of its founder, Mrs. C. L. Pennington, the Mission was dissolved. Its ministers felt the need to

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Full Gospel News. July 2014.

Ibid. Women in Religion.

34 Quote from Wacker, “America’ s Pentecostals,” 21; Reed, “Origins and Development of the Theology of Oneness Pentecostalism,” 197; Beisner, “Jesus Only” Churches, introduction 35 Quote from Wacker, “America’ s Pentecostals,” 21; Reed, “Origins and Development of the Theology of Oneness Pentecostalism,” 197; Beisner, “Jesus Only” Churches, introduction.

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continue their work and, in 1954, formed a new organization, the Pentecostal Church of Zion, Inc. 1955

Apostolic Church Primary School established by the Apostolic Church of Nigeria.36

1955

A. A. Allen is arrested in Knoxville, TN. Charged with ‘drunk driving’. He pays the fine without contest. This would remain a controversy as Don Steward (an Allen associate) would claim that Allen was occasionally drunk and family members (son Paul Allen) and others still contend the accusation is false.37 Allen left the Assemblies of God shortly after this incident and was ordained under his own organization, Miracle Revival Fellowship.38

1955

Bishop S. N. Hancock, along with other members of the PAW Executive Board, signed an affirmation of the Oneness doctrine. This is apparently targeted at Bishop Hancock who has been rumored not to be in agreement since at least 1940. Despite wild rumors there has never been any evidence that Bishop Hancock was not oneness in his theological position.

1955

George W. Hensley, a Baptist, is credited with introducing snake handling among Pentecostals died due to an untreated snake bite.

Hensley’s snake handling becomes a taint often used on Pentecostal people.

1955

The Pentecostal Assemblies of Jesus Christ (PAJC or P.A. of J.C.) is officially reorganized as a multi-cultural ministerial organization by Bishop Ray Cornell Chairman, Bishop C.B. Gillespie and Bishop Carl Angle.

The Outlook becomes their organizational publication.

36

Dictionary of African Christian Biography. Sakpo, Isaiah Ghele. 1912 to 1993. The Apostolic Church Nigeria Getting Back Double from God". TIME. March 7, 1969. Retrieved 2007-05-17.

38 Randi, James (1989). The Faith Healers. Prometheus Books. p. 84. ISBN 0-87975-535-0.

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Bishop George A. Wade is the General Secretary. Black ministers and women ministers are encouraged to join as ministers.

This effort to re-organize began in August of 1946. This reoranized effort expects (and for many years achieves) where both the UPC and the PAW failed. That is to exist; as a multicultural organization. The UPC was organized as an all-white organization and while not organized that way, the reorganized PAW would adopt a offended posture toward other ministers that would steer them to become an all-black organization.

Bishop Ray Cornell and Bishop George A. Wade

1955

September. Carlos and Catherine Grant met the UPC Foreign Missions Board in Tulsa, Oklahoma during the UPC General Conference, where they received appointment to the Philippines.39

1956

February. James W. Jones (Jim Jones) receives ministerial certificate from the Independent Assemblies of God (IAOGI).

1956

June 11-15. Among William Branham's emulators was Jim Jones, the founder and leader of the Peoples Temple. According to Historian Catherine Wessinger, while rejecting Christianity as a false religion, Jones covertly used popular Christian figures to advance his own ideology. To draw the crowds he was seeking, Jones needed a religious headliner and invited Branham to share the platform with him at a self-organized religious convention held at the Cadle Tabernacle auditorium in Indianapolis. Wildly, it was reported that Jones called Branham a “dishonest person”.

1957

Holy Convocation of Rehoboth Churches Apostolic was a high holy event. Church prelates, parishioners, and friends made Rehoboth Church, relocated to 700 Poplar Grove Street their holy ground for seven days.

The time of this grand celebration was 50 days after the biblical event of Pentecost. In 1957, the hallmark of the Holy convocation, was the ordination of Elder Monroe Saunders, Sr. Elder Sydney A. Dunn, Elder John S. Watson to the office of Bishop. This ordination service was the

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King. Pg. 148.

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most anointed, spiritually charged, emotionally moving service that many delegates had ever witnessed. That Friday night the atmosphere filled with excitement and joyful praise as Bishop Carr summoned Elder Saunders, Elder Dunn and Elder Watson to the altar to be consecrated as Bishops.

The congregation wept with tears of joy during the ordination ceremony.

The three young elders approached the altar slowly; simultaneously they fell prostrate on the floor before God and before the presiding prelate Bishop R. A. Carr. The three young men arose after the consecration with the official title Bishop Monroe Saunders, Sr., Bishop Sydney A. Dunn and Bishop John S. Watson. The brethren received them with thunderous applause, hallelujahs and praises to God.40 1957

Billy and Betty McCool hold a tent revival in Knoxville Tn. This would be the beginning of 1st Apostolic Church in Knoxville, TN. The revival was filled with people from various religious backgrounds. They would baptize them in the river. Eventually the church would meet at 123 Columbia in Knoxville, Tn. Later, they purchased property on Pleasant Ridge Road. The McCool’s would also facilitate several other area church plants, a Christian School and childcare center.

Among the notables in the nascent days of First Apostolic were Bishop George and Lois Wade. Bishop George Wade gave the first $1000 to purchase the property where the church is currently located on Pleasant Ridge Road.

1957

February 17, 1957. The Church of God (Jerusalem Acres), (Also called The Church of God of All Nations) is formed out of schism in the Church of God of Prophecy.41

1957

April. Grace Apostolic Church purchases property at 306 Morgan Avenue to build a sanctuary. Bishop Sanford L. Wade is among those who help clear the lot for a new church building.42 Groundbreaking

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https://www.unitedchurchjc.org/our-founder.html

41

Encyclopedia of American Religions, J. Gordon Melton, editor. Handbook of Denominations in the United States,

by Frank S. Mead. Profiles in Belief: The Religious Bodies of the United States and Canada (Vol. III), by Arthur Carl Piepkorn.

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Interview with Bishop Sanford Wade, October 2, 2020.

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services were held in April of 1957 with completion of the new sanctuary in November of the same year.43 1957

September. Bible Way Churches of Our Lord Jesus Christ Worldwide is organized by Bishop Smallwood E. Williams.

Bishop John Holly consecrates the original five Bishops of new Bibleway Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ in Washington (DC).

Newly installed Bishops - John S. Beane of Petersburg (VA), Bishop McKinley Williams of Philadelphia, Bishop Smallwood Williams of Washington (DC), Bishop Joseph Moore of Brooklyn (NY) and Bishop Winfred Showell of Baltimore.

1957

November 20, 1957, Bishop Hancock along with Bishops Heardie Leaston, Willie Lee, and Elder David Collins, officially incorporated the Pentecostal Churches of the Apostolic Faith (PCAF).

1958

January 1, 1958, in Phoenix, Arizona, Urbane Leiendecker, a recent convert, approached Allen and offered him 1,280 acres (5.2 km2) of land in Arizona.[21] This property, later expanded, was then named "Miracle Valley." As such, it served as the ministry headquarters for A. A. Allen Revivals, Inc. This location housed Miracle Valley Bible College and its dorms and classrooms, a domed church, administrative buildings, a large warehouse, a residential neighborhood called Miracle Valley Estates, a publishing and printing plant, a four-press phonograph record plant, and Miracle Valley Fellowship, which served as a ministerial fellowship with about 10,000 ministers as members.[14] In spite of the presence of its own print shop, however, Miracle Valley's business manager Gerald King said in 1969 that the ministry spent $27,000 per month "farming out" jobs to other print shops that could not be handled on site.44

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https://www.abundantlife4you.org/page/our-history

44

Thomas, Bob (Nov 30, 1969). "Miracle Valley Base for Allen Revival". The Arizona Republican. Phoenix, AZ. p. A29.

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1958

January 8. Claims that during a message by William Branham titled, “Handwriting on the Wall”, God literally wrote on the wall.45

1958

A. A. Allen was arrested in 1955 for suspicion of drunk driving after a controversial incident in Knoxville, Tennessee. Allen resigned from the Assemblies of God shortly afterward.[11] After paying the fine without contest in order to avoid terminating his Knoxville meetings which were then in progress, Allen was re-ordained by his "Miracle Revival Fellowship."[3] Allen's associate Don Stewart claimed that Allen was occasionally drunk after Knoxville, and that his staff covered for him.[12] Allen continued the revival circuit, and in 1958, he purchased a tent that could seat over 22,000 (the tent was the one used by evangelist Jack Coe up until his death in 1956). Allen became one of the first evangelists to call poverty a spirit and believed in God's ability to perform miracles financially.

At his peak, he appeared on fifty-eight radio stations daily, as well as fortythree TV stations.

1958

Branham first spoke about original sin; he rejected the orthodox view of the subject and hinted at his own belief in a hidden meaning to the story.

Branham may have become acquainted with serpent's seed doctrine through his Baptist roots; Daniel Parker, an American Baptist minister from Kentucky, promulgated a similar doctrine in the mid-1800s. According to Pearry Green, Branham's teaching on the serpent's seed doctrine was viewed by the broader Pentecostal movement as the "filthy doctrine ... that ruined his ministry". No other mainstream Christian group held a similar view; Branham was widely criticized for spreading the doctrine. His followers view the doctrine as one of his greatest revelations.

1958

Richard W. Culpepper, David Nunn, W.V. Grant, and Morris Cerullo organize the World Convention of Deliverance Evangelists. It will function from 1958 to 1965, when it ceases meeting.46

1959

At a large meeting in Samsula, Florida, a Klan rally was held. And during this rally, something happened that was unheard of during the gathering.

The Imperial Grand Wizard, the leader of the Ku Klux Klan, took off his mask and presented himself in plain sight. When doing so, he claimed that

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https://william-branham.org/videoplayer/the_message_part_34 All Things are Possible: The Healing & Charismatic Revivals in Modern America. David Edwin Harrell

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he was "Lon Davis," the same alias that Roy E. Davis used in Georgia when he was found to be living a dual life in Georgia and Texas. "Lon Davis" presented himself as a 71-year-old ordained Baptist minister from Dallas, TX.47 This is the same Roy Elonzo Davis that was pastor to William Branham.

1959

May 10, 1959 (Mother’s Day) John & Dodie Osteen found Lakewood Church in Houston Texas.48

1959

May. L. D. Seagraves homegoing. His son, Glen, is elected pastor of 1st UPC, Kennett, Mo.49

1959

Arkansas USA. The PAW assigned Bishop Ralph Bass of Dayton (OH) as the Bishop of Arkansas.

1959

Eugene Garrett started what eventually became the 1,000 congregation strong Pentecostal Ministerial Association (PMA).50 Garrett and another son-in-law who helped him establish the work, Raymond Knapp, were members of the International Ministerial Association (IMA) located in the United States.51

1959

November 14, 1959. John Sherrill, an Episcopal priest Dennis Bennett "prayed for and received the baptism [in the Holy Spirit]" on November 14, 1959. On April 3, 1960 he told his 2600-member St. Mark's Episcopal Church in Van Nuys, California about his tongues-speaking experience.

Sherrill writes, "Newspapers carried the story the next day. The wire services picked it up. Overnight the story swept the country: speaking in tongues had appeared in a decent, ordinary church and had caused strife, division and dissension. Time carried the story. So did Newsweek" They Speak with Other Tongues.

1959

Bishop Carl Angle and his wife Frances were traveling to Apostolic Faith Church of God where Bishop Ray O. Cornell was pastor. Bishop Angle was to speak in their Thanksgiving Day service. The Angles were in a horrible car accident. Their daughter Sherry (age 8) is killed. Bishop

47

http://en.believethesign.com/index.php?title=Roy_Davis_and_the_KKK

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https://www.lakewoodchurch.com/about/history https://www.kennettupc.com/church_history 50 King. Pg. 200. Raymond Knapp, email 28 October 2014. Knapp is the son-in-law of Eugene Garrett.

He and his wife, Carol, Garrett’s daughter, worked with Garret in Mindanao.

51 King. Pg. 200. Omar Dalumpines, personal interview, Manila, 14 November 2015.

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Angle said that three men appeared went to his daughter on the side of the highway and then disappeared. Sherry was alive!52 1960

Fall. Midwest Bible Institute was opened in Webb City, MO under the direction of Rev. Pauline Parham as a short-term school with a one-year ministry preparation curriculum. That expanded to a two-year curriculum in 1967. Rev. Pauline Parham, daughter-in-law of Charles F. Parham, was the first MBI Superintendent. The school moved to northwest Houston, TX in 1971, continuing and growing on a remodeled elementary school campus. FGEA added dorms and developed the campus with housing for staff. By the time MBI’s Houston campus was closed in 1992 with the plan to relocate the school, MBI had trained over 600 students in its 32 years of operation.53

1960

November 13. William Branham is openly teaching that ‘Colored people” are from sexual relations between Satan and Eve. This is generally referred to as Serpent-seed Doctrine and comes from the Christian Identity movement and the KKK.54 Many people embrace his teachings.

Some still believe this heresy.

1960

Willard & Ione Glaeser who became pastors Frank Ewart’s church after his homegoing. The Glaesers founded Revival Fellowship, an association of nondenominational ministries. Hundreds of pastors and churches were impacted by this fellowship, both nationally and internationally. Also, at this time, the name of the church corporation became Living Waters Missionary Association, and the church changed its name to Living Waters Tabernacle.55

1960

Church of God (Black Jews) "Prophet F. S. Cherry established the Church of God (Black Jews) in Philadelphia. Cherry taught that the true Jews are black, and that Jesus was black."56

1960

Pentecostal Evangelical Church of God, National and International.

Riddle, OR [H.Q.]

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Angle. Pg. 24-25.

53

The Full Gospel News. Special Edition. July 2014. Pg. 2.

54 Branham, William. 1960, Nov 13. Condemnation by Representation. http://table.branham.org 55

http://livingwaters.org/culture/history.html

56

Crim, Keith (ed.). The Perennial Dictionary of World Religions. San Francisco: Harper Collins (1989). Reprint; originally pub. as Abingdon Dictionary of Living Religions, 1981; pg. 108.

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1960

Dennis Bennett, an American Episcopalian. Bennett was the Rector at St Mark's Episcopal Church in Van Nuys California announces to the congregation that he had received the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. Soon after this he was ministering in Vancouver where he ran many workshops and seminars about the work of the Holy Spirit. This influenced tens of thousands of Anglicans, Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches.

1960

Pat Robertson founds the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN).

1960

Bible Way Pentecostal Apostolic Church formed by Bishop Curtis Jones.

1960

People's Temple Christian Church Full Gospel becomes an affiliated church of the Disciples of Christ (Jim Jones would later become ordained by this Christian Church).

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR Bernie L. Wade, Ph.D. is a noted Pentecostal and Apostolic Faith historian.

He serves on the Executive Board of Apostolic Archives (www.apostolicarchives.com) “The Apostolic Archives International is a well-articulated preservation society for Pentecostal history. We are proud to represent the global activity of the Apostolic Faith Movement from the cradle to the present condition. Our purpose is to preserve historical information at large concerning the movement to benefit every individual that has an interest in the Apostolic perspective.”57 Bernie L. Wade, PhD is a third generation Apostolic Faith minister. He traces his spiritual heritage through the International Circle of Faith (ICOF) and the Pentecostal Assemblies of Jesus Christ (PAJC) to the Apostolic Faith Movement. He serves on the International Presbytery of the ICOF – International Circle of Faith http://www.icof.net Dr. Wade has written extensively about the Apostolic Faith movement and several key organizations.

See: • • • • •

The Original Pentecostal Assemblies of the World (PAW) Apostolic Faith and Pentecostal Timetable of Key Events Volume 1 Apostolic Faith and Pentecostal Timetable of Key Events Volume 2 The History of Apostolic Reformation in the 20th Century The History of the Apostolic Faith Church of God (AFCOG)

For more information write: 6321 Fallen Timber Road, Sulphur, KY 40031 or email: Bernie.wade1212@gmail.com

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http://www.apostolicarchives.com/page/page/5834253.htm

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