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The United Pentecostal Church International began with 521 churches and has grown to more than 45,000 churches, including daughter works and preaching points, 45,000 ministers, and a total constituency of over 5.8 million worldwide, making it the largest Oneness denomination. [3]
Being the largest event hosted by the United Pentecostal Church International, NAYC is considered the "premier youth conference" of the UPCI. [3] It is intended mainly for youth and young adults , aimed at people ages 12 to 25.
Goss became involved with what may have been his most challenging organizational work, the merger of the Pentecostal Church Incorporated (PCI) and the Pentecostal Assemblies of Jesus Christ (PA of JC). September 25, 1945, the two organizations officially became one. Howard Goss was the nearly unanimous choice for general superintendent. [3]
The Church of God in Christ (COGIC) is an international Holiness–Pentecostal Christian denomination, [2] [4] and a large Pentecostal denomination in the United States. [5] Although an international and multi-ethnic religious organization, it has a predominantly African-American membership based within the United States.
Charles Fox Parham (June 4, 1873 – January 29, 1929) was an American preacher and evangelist.Together with William J. Seymour, Parham was one of the two central figures in the development and initial spread of early Pentecostalism, known as Holiness Pentecostalism.
Pentecostal organization also work with non-government organizations and form their own development wings. [2] These wings provide social services and humanitarian work. [2] Some pastors have begun preaching against repressive tactics of the government and highlight accountability and stopping corruption in their sermons. [2]
[7] He traveled extensively throughout the segregated South in the 1920s and 1930s preaching to integrated congregations years before the civil rights struggles of the 1950s and 1960s and the religious ecumenical movements which followed. One of the principles that Grace taught which provoked controversy was the concept of one-man leadership.
United Pentecostal Churches of Christ was a name used from 1992 until at least 2004 as the name of a Holiness Pentecostal denomination in the United States of America. Formed during 1992 as a result of a meeting convened by J. Delano Ellis , [ 1 ] at least two Christian denominations claim descent from this organization: the Pentecostal ...