Ryhope Pentecostal Church
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You have come to the home of Pentecost SUNDERLAND.
"But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth" ACTS 2 v 8
Outpouring of the Holy Spirit
In a series of meetings in Sunderland 1907 held by Alexander Boddy, an Anglican Vicar, and Thomas Barrat, a minister from Norway, there was an "Outpouring of the Holy Spirit." God moved through this revival leading to ongoing meetings and conventions for several years. God raised up ministries and impacted a number of key individuals like Smith Wigglesworth, Thomas Myerscough, W.F.B. Burton, James Salter, George Jeffreys, Stephen Jeffreys and others to go spread the Good News of Jesus Christ and the message of Pentecost.
Ryhope Pentecostal Church was born.
These men of faith influenced a whole generation to serve God and seek the Pentecostal experience. One such young man of faith was Thomas Cansfield. With his help and the vision of the Pastor of Hebron Church, Sunderland, Thomas Dorling and Clyde Young the assistant Pastor, the Pentecostal Church in Ryhope village was opened on 2nd January 1938. So the Pentecostal testimony was established in Ryhope. We are part of a fellowship of over 600 churches called 'Assemblies of God'. As a Christian movement we want to bring peace and hope to communities regardless of age, race or gender. (Read more - click on 'History')
HOPE
Christians are refugees from the sinking ship of this present world order, so soon to disappear; our hope is fixed in the eternal order, where the promises of God are made good to HIS people through HIS SON JESUS, who paid the price for our sin when HE died on the cross. When we ask for forgiveness for our sin, HIS sacrifice makes it possible for GOD to forgive us. THIS INDEED IS AN ASSURED HOPE that helps us in this life and will lead to eternal life in GOD's new Heaven and Earth, after HE has brought this world order to an end when as the BIBLE says.........
"FOR THE LORD HIMSELF will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and the sound of the trumpet of GOD. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet HIM in the air, and so we will always be with the LORD".
1 Thessalonians CH 4 v 16 & 17 ESV
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