APOSTOLIC News

Faces of Faith: Angel Food Ministries

Ottumwa, Iowa – March 9, 2010. The Bethel United Pentecostal Church in Ottumwa works hard helping those in need.
One service they provide is the Angel Food Ministries.
They became a host site for the national program two years ago.
Angel Food Ministries offers packages of food at discounted prices that can feed a family of four for [...]

Jacksonville Non-Profit Partners with Leading Fireworks Company to Give Back

Jacksonville, Fla. – March 3, 2010. In this harsh economic climate, one local church creatively addressed its fundraising needs by joining forces with the nation’s leading fireworks distributor to sell sparklers and non-aerial items. The First United Pentecostal Church of Jacksonville, now in its fifth year of fundraising with TNT Fireworks®, joined more than 5,000 [...]

Volunteers Work Around Clock to Build ‘Church in a Day”

Grand Lake, La. – February 15, 2010. Although knee-deep mud delayed construction, Grand Lake Apostolic Church was finished in time to hold its first service in the new building on time last Sunday.
The Rev. Trevor Kelley and his wife, Deana, started in 2006, with services in their living room as a United Pentecostal mission church. [...]

St. Marys Pastor Returns Mission of Mercy in Haiti

St. Marys, West Virginia – February 1, 2010. An area pastor who traveled to Haiti on a mission of mercy last week says the trip was a success, but much more needs done for the earthquake-ravaged country.

Pastor Terry Lough of the North Pleasants Apostolic Tabernacle in St. Marys left for the Dominican Republic on Jan. [...]

Relatives, friends in Allston-Brighton reach out to Haiti quake victims

Allston-Brighton, Mass., – January 21, 2010. Haitian communities in Boston are mourning the thousands killed in the earthquake that struck Haiti last week. The earthquake occurred near the capital, Port-au-Prince, where many have friends or relatives they have not heard from.
Those who attended Sunday’s weekly service at the United Pentecostal Church in Brighton prayed for the [...]

UPCI Missionaries Safe: UPCI Sending Relief to Haiti

Haiti – January 14, 2010. UPCI missionaries appointed to the nation of Haiti, Brother Ron & Sister Teri Brian are on deputation here in the United States and fortunately were not in Haiti at the time of the 7.0 earthquake that rocked the country yesterday. Many have asked about them and we want everyone to [...]

Hispanics flock to Pentecostal churches

Orlando, Fla.– January 7, 2010. The back wall of the sanctuary of Iglesia Cristiana Pentecostal Church of Orlando in Pine Hills is lined with the flags of the Hispanic congregation: Puerto Rico, Brazil, Dominican Republic, Honduras, Venezuela, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Cuba, Haiti and Texas.
The flags speak to the spread of Pentecostalism throughout the world and, in [...]

Williamson native ordained as Apostolic bishop

CINCINNATI, Ohio – January 4, 2010. Bishop (Dr.) Andrew Whaley, a native of Williamson, W.Va., and a pastor for 23 years, was recently consecrated bishop of Emmanuel Temple Apostolic Church and Fellowship Churches of Ohio and West Virginia.
He founded and is Senior Pastor of Emmanuel Temple Apostolic Church in Cincinnati. He also is president of [...]