143:, a white South African, read about Pentecostal beliefs and the Azusa revival in William Seymour's Apostolic Faith newsletter. Smith wrote about how he wanted to receive the Spirit Baptism, so when Lake and the other Azusa missionaries arrived in South Africa, he received his Spirit Baptism. Smith and another Azusa missionary, Henry Turney, organised to create a work that eventually became the Assemblies of God in Cape Town and Johannesburg. Turney, who received his Spirit Baptism in 1906 at Azusa Street, played a large part in this missionary work. He partnered with eleven missionaries and eventually began ministering in
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segregation created a few breakaway churches from the
Apostolic Faith Mission of South Africa, the Catholic Apostolic Holy Spirit Church in Zion, created in 1910, Zion Apostolic Faith Mission, created in 1920, which later in 1925, split into the Zion Christian Church which is the largest South African church today. Seymour's missionary work in South Africa caused Pieter Le Roux, an Afrikaner Pastor, to adopt the Pentecostal message and spread it through native black South Africans and eventually through Zionist Pentecostalism and into
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221:, a prominent leader of the Assemblies of God in the 1950s, condemned political involvement, even considering it to be un-Christian. He created a "Back to God Crusade" where he emphasised restoring black dignity and fighting crime while staying out of politics.Bhengu’s friend Edgar M. Louton was later forced to cut ties with the Assemblies of God because of his criticism of Apartheid.
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Pentecostals supported apartheid or remained apolitical. One of the county's biggest Pentecostal denominations, The Apostolic Faith Mission, has an all-white leadership council. Many white church leaders at this time were a part of the apartheid-era government,
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In 1996, the two, previously separate black and white, branches of the
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is the largest
Pentecostal denomination in the world. In 1908, missionaries arrived in South Africa from William Seymour's Azusa Street mission. Some of these missionaries organized a group that would eventually grow to becoming a part of the Assemblies of God. By 1936 this branch of the Assemblies
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Evangelical Witness in South Africa in 1986, of which, half of the signers were Pentecostal. in 1988, a Pentecostal organization called the Relevant Pentecostal Witness published an anti-apartheid paper and in 1994, these two organizations join to form The Evangelical Alliance of
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October 1913. Seymour's Pentecostal vision was not always well received in South Africa because Seymour's missionaries promoted the idea of social equality between the white South Africans and the native black South Africans, which the white South Africans disagreed with. The issue of racial
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Ray McCauley of the mostly white, neo-Pentecostal Rhema Church, starts becoming involved in politics near the end of apartheid. in 1990, McCauley and representatives from 97 other churches sign the anti-apartheid
Rustenburg Declaration. In 1991, McCauley and Chikane serve on the National Peace
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was the country's most important white neo-Pentecostal leader. He was the founder of the Rhema Church in 1979, and the president of the
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to convert and organize missions. Seymour decided to send missionaries to South Africa because a reader of
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to convert in South Africa. The Apostolic Faith Mission grew quickly, but soon became racially segregated. In 1996 the two racially segregated branches reunited to form one of the biggest denominations in South Africa.
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