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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]
First Assembly of God, North Little Rock, Arkansas – 16,553 New Life Covenant Assemblies of God, Chicago, Illinois – 15,375 Dream City Church (formerly First Assembly of God), Phoenix, Arizona – 15,000
Two weeks after Keaggy's mother died in 1970 he became a Christian and attended a small Assembly of God Church in Boardman, Ohio Sam Kinison: Controversial comedian in the late 1980s and early 1990s; before becoming a comedian, he was an Assembly of God evangelist United States of America Jerry Lee Lewis
Latin American Bible Institute, California, La Puente, California; Christ Mission College (formerly Latin American Bible Institute) Texas, San Antonio, Texas; Native American Bible College, Shannon, North Carolina (B.R.E.)
The Assemblies of God USA, organized in April 1914, was the first Pentecostal denomination to name itself Assemblies of God. The Assemblies of God USA was founded by about 300 preachers and laymen from 20 states and several foreign countries met for a general council in Hot Springs, Arkansas , United States. [ 8 ]
Women were commissioned as deacons from 1935, and allowed to preach from 1949. In 1963 Mary Levison petitioned the General Assembly for ordination. Woman elders were introduced in 1966 and women ministers in 1968. The first female Moderator of the General Assembly was Dr Alison Elliot in 2004.
The OBSC's origins are found in two smaller Pentecostal groups which can be traced to the Azusa Street Revival: the Bible Standard Conference founded in Eugene, Oregon in 1919 and the Open Bible Evangelistic Association founded in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1932; as both were similar in doctrine and structure, the two groups amalgamated in 1935. [5]
World Assemblies of God Fellowship, the 1988 largest worldwide association with the name Assemblies of God Assemblies of God USA , officially the General Council of the Assemblies of God — the 1914 direct U.S. member of the World Assemblies of God, sometimes referred to as the "General Council" denomination by other AOG denominations in the U.S.