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Wayman Othell Mitchell is the founder of Christian Fellowship Ministries or the Potters House. The Potter's House is a Pentecostal bible-based fellowship of 2,100 churches in 112 nations throughout the world with 51 ministering evangelists.〔 (【引用サイトリンク】 The Potters House - International Directory ) 〕 Individual churches of the Potters House also use other names, including: The Door, Victory Chapel, Christian Center, Crossroads Chapel, and La Puerta.〔 (【引用サイトリンク】 History - The Potters House Christian Fellowship ) 〕 Mitchell is the senior pastor of the Prescott, Arizona congregation. Wayman Mitchell states that he was converted as a born again Christian in 1953 and baptized in the Holy Ghost in 1954. He has been a Pentecostal pastor since 1960. Mitchell conducts "healing crusades," in the many countries where there are Potter's House Churches. Mitchell has been the pastor of many churches in the United States, and also in Perth, Western Australia where he was senior pastor for 3 years.〔''An Open Door a story of the restoration of the local church'' by Ron Simpkins ISBN 0-918389-01-1〕 == Early life == Mitchell was born on October 9, 1929 in the town of Mitchell in the US state of Arkansas.〔 〕〔 〕 His father decided to move the family to Prescott, Arizona in 1933, in search of work during the Great Depression. There were five children, Wayman being the youngest. Arizona is where he and his wife Nelda currently reside. Mitchell was stationed on the Island of Guam between 1948–1952 for the U.S. military during the Korean War. While there he was head supervisor of the maintenance shop. During this time he was promoted to Staff Sergeant and offered a candidacy at an officer training school. After his military service he met Nelda Henderson at a dance in Phoenix in 1952. They were married on February 7, 1953. Ten months after the birth of their first daughter, she suddenly died of cot death. During this time Mitchell was unemployed. Jobs were scarce and unemployment was widespread. This was the turning point in his life. George Mitchell, Wayman's brother had been converted at a Foursquare church and invited the grieving couple to a church meeting. They both responded to an altar call and became born again Christians in 1954. 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「Wayman Mitchell」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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