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The Assemblies of God USA (AG), officially The General Council of the Assemblies of God, is a Pentecostal Christian denomination in the United States and the U.S. branch of the World Assemblies of God Fellowship, the world's largest Pentecostal body. The AG reported 2.9 million adherents in 2022. [4]
The World Assemblies of God Fellowship (WAGF) is a global cooperative body of over 170 Pentecostal denominations that was established on August 15, 1989.WAGF was created to provide structure so that member denominations, which previously related to each other informally, could more easily cooperate on a global basis.
In December 1939, the Assemblies of God USA responded by sending a missionary, Leland E. Johnson, to organize and superintend the Philippines District Council of the Assemblies of God. [2] The first convention was held in March 1940 at Villasis, Pangasinan, and the Council was incorporated on June 19 that same year. [3]
The church was centered on the West Coast and was the first to use the Pentecostal Assemblies of the World name. [5] The second body resulted from a schism within the Assemblies of God USA in 1916. That year the Assemblies of God general council disapproved of Oneness Pentecostal doctrine and adopted a trinitarian Statement of Fundamental Truths.
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Margaret M. Poloma, John C. Green, The Assemblies of God: Godly Love and the Revitalization of American Pentecostalism, NYU Press, USA, 2010 Allan H. Anderson, To the Ends of the Earth: Pentecostalism and the Transformation of World Christianity , Oxford University Press, USA, 2013
In 2005 when the Samoan Assemblies of God formed an incorporated society, AOGNZ suspended all pastors credentials and stripped their membership as a New Zealand Assemblies of God fellowship. That same year in December, the Samoan Assemblies of God had a special service at the Samani Pulepule Centre with World leaders of the Assemblies of God.
The H. A. Goss faction left COGIC to join the Assemblies of God USA. Over time, the ministers and churches under Leonard P. Adams also separated from COGIC; they assimilated into other white Pentecostal groups or organizations. In 1916, a few white churches were organized as a white branch of COGIC.