Where We Have Come From A Brief History Of The Church Of Pentecost

The Church of Pentecost, like most great institutions, started in a small way. The Church’s beginnings are linked to the ministry of Pastor James McKeown (1900-1989), an Irish missionary sent by the Apostolic Church, Bradford, UK to the then Gold Coast (now Ghana) arrived on 4th March 1937 to help a group of believers of the Apostolic Faith led by one Peter Newman Anim in a town called Asamankese in the Eastern Region. In September of the same year, Mrs. Sophia Mckeown joined her husband who had settled at Asamankese in the eastern part of the then Colony.Due to doctrinal differences based on divine healing, the group split in 1939 into the Christ Apostolic Church and the Apostolic Church, Gold Coast. The latter saw great expansion under Pastor James McKeown. In 1953, a constitutional crisis led to the founding of the Gold Coast Apostolic Church led by Pastor James McKeown.