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:''For the American Pentecostal denomination, see Elim Fellowship.'' The Elim Pentecostal Church is a UK-based Pentecostal Christian denomination. ==History== George Jeffreys (1889–1962), a Welshman, founded the ''Elim Pentecostal Church'' in Monaghan, Ireland in 1915. Jeffreys was an evangelist with a Welsh Congregational church background. He was converted at age 15 during the Welsh Revival of 1904. Alexander A. Boddy, Vicar of All Saints, Monkwearmouth, Sunderland invited him to preach at his International Pentecostal Convention in Sunderland in May 1913. Between 1915 and 1934, Jeffreys was extremely active as a revivalist, and preached to large crowds throughout the United Kingdom. The church was brought together, first as the Elim Evangelistic Band, but this was changed to Elim Foursquare Gospel Alliance when the Deed Poll was registered in April 1934. The name 'Elim' was taken from the account in the Book of Exodus, chapter 15, verse 27, where the Israelites, leaving the bondage of Egypt under the leadership of Moses, found an oasis called Elim: ''"Then they came to Elim, where there were twelve wells of water and seventy palm trees; so they camped there by the waters."'' This represented a place of refreshing and it was thought appropriate for a revival movement at that time. Differences of opinion over Jeffreys' open espousal of British Israelism and disputes on church governance led Jeffreys to withdraw from the Elim Pentecostal Church in 1939 and to form the Bible-Pattern Church Fellowship in Nottingham, which founded other churches throughout England until the 1960s, but that now only continues as a small fellowship. The presidency of Elim then passed to George Kingston, a wealthy businessman who had founded many of the Elim congregations in Essex. On the night of 23 June 1978, eight British missionaries and four young children (including a 3-week-old baby) connected with the Elim Mission in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) were bayoneted to death by guerrilla fighters. Most of the women were raped.〔The full story is elaborated in Phyllis Thompson, ''The Rainbow or the Thunder'', Sevenoaks: Hodder and Stoughton.〕 The only one who was not was 55 years old at the time. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Elim Pentecostal Church」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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