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In 2022, global membership of the Church stood at 4,203,077, [3] with children constituting about 1,307,157. The Church of Pentecost had 137,862 church officers and 2,492 ordained ministers in 101 nations. [4] The Church saw an increase of 7.9% with regards to the total membership of the church and now operate in 170 nations across the globe. [5]
Reverend James McKeown (12 September 1900 – 4 May 1989) was an Irish missionary who spent considerable time in the Gold Coast, now Ghana. He was the first Pentecostal missionary to come to Ghana from the United Kingdom and was instrumental in the establishment of The Apostolic Church - Ghana.
He worked for three years with the Technology Consultancy Centre, KNUST, before he going into full-time ministry in the Church of Pentecost in 1991. [1] His first ministry station was Daboase District in the Western Region between 1991 and 1995, then to Agona Nsaba in the Central Region to serve until 1999 [1] where he was ordained as a pastor in 1996.
Pentecost Sunday takes place on May 19 in 2024—seven weeks after Easter. For Orthodox Christians (and others who follow the Gregorian calendar), Pentecost will be observed on Sunday, June 23 ...
The Apostolic Church – Ghana is a denomination emanated from the Pentecostal movement which started from the 1904–1905 Welsh revival.It practices self-governing and claims to own local churches in every district in Ghana and foreign mission fields with its headquarters in Accra, Ghana. [1]
The Methodist Church Ghana came into existence as a result of the missionary activities of the Wesleyan Methodist Church, inaugurated with the arrival of Joseph Rhodes Dunwell to the Gold Coast (Ghana) in 1835. Like the mother church, the Methodist Church in Ghana was established by people of Anglican background. [12]
Apostle Professor Kwadwo Nimfour Opoku Onyinah (born July 22, 1954) is a Ghanaian theologian, a televangelist, a composer and the fifth chairman of The Church of Pentecost from 2008 to 2018. [1] He founded the Pentecost International Worship Centre, a ministry of The Church of Pentecost in 1993.
Small then founded a new Pentecostal denomination, called the Apostolic Church of Pentecost, which was granted Dominion charter on 25 October 1921. [16] "With the doctrinal break in fellowship, he founded an organization that for many years endured as the only native Canadian Oneness organization."