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The United Pentecostal Church International (UPCI) is a Oneness Pentecostal denomination headquartered in Weldon Spring, Missouri. [1] The United Pentecostal Church International was formed in 1945 by a merger of the former Pentecostal Church, Inc. and the Pentecostal Assemblies of Jesus Christ .
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 ...
Universal Church of the Kingdom of God – 2 million; Church of God of Prophecy – 1.5 million [8] Apostolic Faith Mission of South Africa – 1.4 million [9] Jesus Is Lord Church Worldwide – 1 million [10] Indian Pentecostal Church of God – 0.9 million [11] God is Love Pentecostal Church – 0.8 million; Pentecostal Church of God – .6 ...
The United Methodist Church (UMC) has a General Conference every four years to make decisions and when a decision is made, they add it to the Book of Discipline. From the 2016 Book of Discipline, the United Methodist Church Website cites multiple decisions on homosexuality. On the basis of membership, all persons are eligible to "attend its ...
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 ...
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 National Baptist Convention, the largest predominantly African-American Baptist denomination in the United States, does not have any official beliefs or standpoints regarding Pentecostal and charismatic expressions of worship in their churches' services or in their national and district meetings and conventions, as they believe their churches have autonomous authority to deal with how they ...
The Pentecostal Free Will Baptist Church (PFWBC) is a Holiness Pentecostal denomination of Christianity with Free Will Baptist roots. The PFWBC is historically and theologically a combination of both denominational traditions, having begun as a small group of Free Will Baptist churches in North Carolina that accepted the teachings of Holiness movement, and later, accepting the teaching of a ...