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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.
Many of these ultimately merged into the Pentecostal Assemblies of the World, while others remained independent, like AFM Church of God. Divisions occurred within the Pentecostal Assemblies of the World over the role of women in ministry, usage of wine or grape juice for communion, divorce and remarriage, and the proper mode of water baptism ...
They include the Assemblies of God, the Foursquare Gospel Church, the Pentecostal Church of God, and the Open Bible Churches. [ 207 ] [ 209 ] The 1904–1905 Welsh Revival laid the foundation for British Pentecostalism including a distinct family of denominations known as Apostolic Pentecostalism (not to be confused with Oneness Pentecostalism).
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]
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 million [14] Open Bible Churches - .15 million
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.
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]
Scandinavian Pentecostalism was marked by a congregationalist church government, which led to isolation from the other Pentecostal groups in North America and the formation of loose networks, such the Fellowship of Christian Assemblies and the Independent Assemblies of God, International.