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Assemblies of God USA
The Assemblies of God USA (AG), officially the General Council of the Assemblies of God, is a Pentecostal Christian denomination in the United States founded in 1914 during a meeting of Pentecostal ministers at Hot Springs, Arkansas. It is the U.S. branch of the World Assemblies of God Fellowship, the world's largest Pentecostal body. With a constituency of over 3 million, the Assemblies of God was the ninth largest denomination in the United States in 2011.〔National Council of Churches (February 14, 2011), ("Trends continue in church membership growth or decline, reports 2011 Yearbook of American & Canadian Churches" ), accessed February 17, 2011. The statistical figures used in the 2011 Yearbook were collected in 2008.〕
The Assemblies of God holds to a conservative, evangelical and Arminian theology as expressed in the Statement of Fundamental Truths and position papers, which emphasize such core Pentecostal doctrines as the baptism in the Holy Spirit, speaking in tongues, divine healing and the Second Coming of Christ. It defines for itself a fourfold mission to evangelize, worship God, disciple believers, and show compassion.〔Assemblies of God USA, (Our Mission and Core Values ). Accessed March 10, 2011.〕
The fellowship's polity is a hybrid of presbyterian and congregational models. This tension between local independence and national authority is seen in the AG's historical reluctance to refer to itself as a denomination, preferring the terms ''fellowship'' and ''movement''.〔Poloma 1989, p. 9.〕 The national headquarters are in Springfield, Missouri, where the administrative and executive offices and Gospel Publishing House are located.
It maintains relationships with other Pentecostal groups at both regional and national levels through the Pentecostal/Charismatic Churches of North America and the Pentecostal World Fellowship. It is also a member of the Wesleyan Holiness Consortium and the National Association of Evangelicals.
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