The United Pentecostal Church

"Today about a half billion people call themselves Pentecostal ... and Pentecostals alone outnumber Anglicans, Baptists, Lutherans and Presbyterians combined."

Life Magazine "The Millennium Issue"

The United Pentecostal Church International has been among the fastest growing religious organizations in North America. From 617 churches listed in 1946, we have grown to more than (United States and Canada) 3,876 churches, with a Sunday school attendance of more than 400,000, and an estimated constituency of at least 600,000. Moreover, we have churches in 136 other nations with 15,882 licensed ministers, 21,407 churches and meeting places, and a foreign constituency of over 1.9 million, making a total worldwide constituency of more than 2.6 million.

We trace our origin from Acts the second chapter, when the Holy Spirit fell upon the 120 believers.

Our national headquarters building, located in Hazelwood, Missouri, houses offices for its general officials, the Pentecostal Publishing House, and a Christian bookstore. Among its endorsed institutions are seven Bible colleges, a children's home, a residency for troubled young men, a ministry to those addicted to alcohol and other drugs, a chaplaincy for prisoners, and we endorse chaplains to the military.

We teach that the one God (who revealed Himself in the Old Testament as Jehovah) revealed himself through His Son, Jesus Christ. Thus Jesus Christ was and is God. In other words, Jesus is the one true God manifested in flesh, for in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily (John 1:1-14; I Timothy 3:16; Colossians 2:9).

While fully God, Jesus was also fully man, possessing a full and true humanity. He was both God and man. Moreover, the Holy Spirit is God with us and in us. Thus God is manifested as Father in creation, in the Son for our redemption, and as the Holy Spirit in our regeneration.

We stress and support the family unit as God's primary institution and teach that the church is God's redemptive fellowship for all believers.