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The Samoan Assemblies of God International (Samoan: Le Fa'apotopotoga a le Atua Samoa) or SAOG is a Pentecostal fellowship of churches. It reached the Western Islands and outer countries with large Samoan communities, such as New Zealand, America and Australia. It has over 530 churches worldwide with over 97,000 adherents.
The Samoan Assemblies of God in New Zealand should not be confused with the Assembly of God Church of Samoa in New Zealand, who are group of 27 churches that had left the Samoan Assemblies of God in 1974 due to the dissatisfaction of one local minister of having the Samoan churches align with the Assemblies of God movement, wanting the Samoan ...
His family attended First Samoan Full Gospel Pentecostal Church in Waipahu and Moanalua, where Rey was a member of the FSFGPC youth group. After sixth grade, his family moved to Oxnard, California as his father pursued Pentecostal ministry .
New Zealand Samoan Assemblies of God in 1974 ... 3,500+ The Assembly of God Church of Samoa is a Pentecostal Independent Christian organization, founded in 1974 ...
In 1965, he was appointed to lead Faleasi'u Assembly of God (the first Assemblies of God church in Samoa). In 1967, he moved to New Zealand. [5] Pulepule and his wife planted a church in the Grey Lynn area in Auckland, and the church grew rapidly, having to extend their church more than five times just to cater to the 500-plus-strong congregation.
The Assemblies of God USA, organized in April 1914, was the first Pentecostal denomination to name itself Assemblies of God. The Assemblies of God USA was founded by about 300 preachers and laymen from 20 states and several foreign countries met for a general council in Hot Springs, Arkansas , United States. [ 8 ]
Jesus Is Lord Church Worldwide – 1 million [10] Indian Pentecostal Church of God – 0.9 million [11] God is Love Pentecostal Church – 0.8 million; Pentecostal Church of God – .6 million [12] The Fellowship Network – .4 million; Manna Full Gospel Churches – .3 million [13] International Fellowship of Christian Assemblies – .2 ...
Within the first years of mission work, the LMS missionaries developed a Samoan alphabet and put the language into written form. The setting-up of the first printing press in Samoa (1839), only the second in the Pacific region, was a mark of the missionary zeal to bring the people to understand the gospel through the written word.