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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]
The first two later merged to become the Apostolic Church of Jesus Christ, [47] and the second became the Pentecostal Church, Inc. In 1945, a merger of two predominantly-white Oneness groups, the Pentecostal Church, Inc. and the Pentecostal Assemblies of Jesus Christ , resulted in the formation of the United Pentecostal Church International ...
The other major international Pentecostal denominations are the Apostolic Church with 15,000,000 members, [218] the Church of God (Cleveland) with 36,000 churches and 7,000,000 members, [219] The Foursquare Church with 67,500 churches and 8,800,000 members, [220] and the United Pentecostal Church International with 45,521 church and 5,800,000 ...
Following a meeting on May 29, 1992, convened in Ohio by Bishop Ellis, several congregations affiliated together as the United Pentecostal Churches of Christ. [6] [7] The then newly formed United Pentecostal Churches of Christ recognized Bishop Ellis as their general overseer and president on August 22, 1992. Bishop Ellis continued in this role ...
For the Oneness Pentecostal movement called United Pentecostal Church or United Pentecostal Church International or UPCI, see United Pentecostal Church International. 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.
A Pentecostal congregation had been gathered at Cleveland, Ohio as long ago as 1935. Bishop Ellis was called to the Pastorate of this church in May 1989. [4] The organization named United Pentecostal Churches of Christ came into being during 1992, as a result of a meeting convened by Bishop Ellis and held on May 29, 1992. [1]
The Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ is, historically and doctrinally, a Oneness Pentecostal organization like the United Pentecostal Church and the Pentecostal Assemblies of the World. With roots in the earliest years of American Pentecostalism, much of the culture of the church reflects the doctrine of the Holiness movement of the 1800s.
Holiness Pentecostalism is the original branch of Pentecostalism, which is characterized by its teaching of three works of grace: [1] the New Birth (first work of grace), [2] entire sanctification (second work of grace), and [3] Spirit baptism evidenced by speaking in tongues (third work of grace).