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Elder Lucy Smith (1874–1952), also known as Lucy Turner Smith, was an African-American Pentecostal pastor and faith healer, who founded All Nations Pentecostal Church in Chicago, Illinois. Her healing ministry attracted large numbers of followers and her church grew to have 3,000 members.
The Christian Congregation is an international non-denominational fellowship of assemblies with roots in the Italian Pentecostal revival in Chicago, which began in 1907. [1] [2] [3] It can be found, for example, in Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, the United States, Mozambique, Italy, Portugal and Ireland.
In 1907, the Mission of William Howard Durham inspired many congregations and individuals to learn about the Pentecostal movement through Mission in Chicago. [1] One of his assistant elders, F. A. Sandgren, published the Folke-Vennena a periodical for Scandinavians and many Midwest churches joined the Pentecostal movement.
The other major international Pentecostal denominations are the Apostolic Church with 15,000,000 members, [218] the Church of God (Cleveland) with 36,000 churches and 7,000,000 members, [219] The Foursquare Church with 67,500 churches and 8,800,000 members, [220] and the United Pentecostal Church International with 45,521 church and 5,800,000 ...
The Black Church in the African American Experience. Duke University Press: Raleigh, 1990; Official Manual with the Doctrines and Discipline of the Church of God in Christ. Memphis, Tennessee: Church of God in Christ Publishing House, 1973. Owens, Robert R. Never Forget! The Dark Years of COGIC History. Xulon Press: Fairfax, 2002.
The pastor of a PCG church in Harlan County, Kentucky (1946). First called the Pentecostal Assemblies of USA, the PCG was formed in Chicago, Illinois in 1919 by a group of Pentecostal ministers who had chosen not to affiliate with the Assemblies of God and several who had left that organization after it adopted a doctrinal statement in 1916. [2]
The Church of God in Christ (COGIC) is a Holiness-Pentecostal Christian denomination, [1] [2] with a predominantly African-American membership. The denomination reports having more than 12,000 churches and over 6.5 million members in the United States. [3] The National Council of Churches ranks it as the fifth largest Christian denomination in ...
This is a list of current and former individual local Pentecostal places of worship, i.e. church buildings and congregations, that are individually notable. Some may be notable for their historic buildings listed on a historic register.