Apostolic Faith Church

But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors.

James 2, 8-9 As a teenager, my mother attended the Apostolic Faith Church in Portland, Oregon for about a year.

She was convinced that what she heard there was what the Bible taught and the way to have a relationship with God, but unfortunately did not pray through to a real assurance of salvation.

By the time I was a teenager, though, Mom had come to the Lord and He had made a real change in her life.

However, the nearest apostolic faith church was a long way from where we lived, and we had no simple way of getting there.

As we started attending whenever we could, a young church family took us under their wings and cheerfully began inviting us over for Sunday dinner after morning services.

This made it possible for us to stay for the evening services as well.

Therefore, those who had received the infilling of the Holy Spirit eventually felt they needed to withdraw from that organization.

The Freymires had received literature from the Apostolic Faith Church, and one daughter had been healed after they sent a prayer request to the headquarters in Portland.

In time, God led them to move to where they could be a part of this church.

The prayer meeting in the early 1920s was life-changing, and the blessings from it and subsequent decisions benefited the succeeding generations.