Bethel Begins: The Beginnings of Bethel United Church of Jesus Christ Apostolic by Nicholas Myers
The story of the people and movements that led to the birth of Bethel United Church of Jesus Christ Apostolic. This book focuses on key events from 1900 to around 1970 that led to the birth of the organisation today known as Bethel. Discover the Pentecostal and Apostolic pioneers who influenced and tutored Bethel’s first bishops. Trace the development of the Oneness Apostolic Faith from the Azusa Street Revival in Los Angeles to 2 Gibson Road, Handsworth Birmingham (UK) via Jamaica. Features profiles of each of the founding bishops: Monroe Saunders, Snr., Sydney Dunn, Herman Brown, Gerald Edmund and Martin Simmonds, and their unique contribution to Bethel’s formation.
Includes: –
- Bethel’s links to the Azusa Street Revival of 1906 and early Pentecostal Pioneers
- The relationship between Bethel and the Pentecostal Assemblies of the World (P.A.W)
- How the “Oneness” Apostolic Pentecostal message came to Jamaica in 1919
- The organisations and leaders that preceded Bethel e.g. Bishop R A Carr & Rehoboth C.O.G.I.C.A.
- Profiles of Bethel’s first bishops: Dunn, Saunders, Brown, Miller, Edmunds & Simmonds
- How the Apostolic Faith was established and spread throughout the UK in the 1950s and 1960s
- Appendix, featuring: ‘The End Time Revival’ – a tract written by Bishop Sydney Alexander Dunn
- Plus, many pictures of the early Apostolic Pentecostal pioneers in the United Kingdom.
Available for purchase on Amazon UK
