First Assembly Of God Church history

After students at his Bethel Bible School in Topeka, Kansas, began speaking in tongues at a prayer meeting on January 1, 1901, Parham, through his Apostolic Faith Movement, had some success in promoting the restoration of the gift of tongues.

In the summer of 1906, revival erupted in the newly-formed congregation meeting at the small, run-down Apostolic Faith Mission at 312 Azusa Street in Los Angeles, California.

Assemblies of God, Pentecostal denomination of the Protestant church, generally considered the largest such denomination in the United States. It was formed by a union of several small Pentecostal groups at Hot Springs, Arkansas, in 1914.

In 1916, the Assemblies adopted a formal confession of faith in response to a controversy over the doctrine of the trinity.

Our church began at the home of Peter and Anne Duborg in 1917, when the Holy Spirit started a revival.

In 1925, this fellowship applied to the General Council of the Assemblies of God asking for affiliation.A letter was drafted by the Secretary of the General Council of the Assemblies of God, accepting this fellowship calling this new church The Assembly of Tyler.

In 1932, another work was established on East Erwin St known as the Full Gospel Tabernacle.

In 1937, a deed of trust was signed for the purchase of the property and soon after, the body of believers entered into a project of erecting a building on this site.

In 1943, it allied with formerly-skeptical evangelicals to form the National Association of Evangelicals.

On February 23, 1947, the first service was held in the old Lincoln School auditorium across from Thomas Square.

The first Island-wide Convention on the Assemblies of God in Hawai‘i was held at Honolulu’s First Assembly of God in May, 1950, at which time the new church building was dedicated on Sunday afternoon, May 21, with Brother Noel Perkin as speaker.

In 1967, the AG formally removed the pacifist plank from its constitution.

The Sassers arrived in Honolulu to take up the pastorate in February of 1973.

1977 was a year of ministry expansion.

In 1979, the first home Bible study groups were formed so that the people would be ministered to in a small-group environment.

Pastor Sapp reorganized the Aloha Kindergarten into the Aloha Day Care and Pre-School, which in turn became the forerunner of Christian Academy, formed in 1980.

In October 1990, though the facilities were not fully completed, First Assembly of God moved to its new home at 3400 Moanalua Road on Red Hill.

In 1994, Pastor Sapp retired and Pastor Klayton Ko was elected as the new senior pastor.

Pastor Hock-Lin Chua, who served under Pastor Seaward in Singapore, joined First Assembly of God’s pastoral staff in 1998 to provide training and lay the foundation for a new church-planting program.

In November of 1999 the previous senior pastor, Doctor Thomas Gulbronson, was severely injured in a fall.

The church was without a senior pastor from then until December 2002.

Wes Johnson, along with his family, moved to Alexandria, VA, and began their ministry at First Assembly of God in January 2003.

In 2010, the AG claimed nearly 3.1 million adherents in the United States and 66.4 million worldwide.

At its centennial in 2014, the Assemblies of God claimed a constituency in the United States of 3,146,741 adherents; 12,849 churches; and 36,884 ministers.