A History of Christian Doctrine #3 - Online Christian Library

A History of Christian Doctrine
Raymond Hoekstra, well-known United Pentecostal
(UPCI) pastor at Calvary Tabernacle in Indianapolis,
Indiana. He resigned his church to be the manager for
Little David. Subsequently, he established a successful
radio and prison ministry under the name of Chaplain Ray.
W. E. Kidson, a UPCI pastor in Houston and longtime
general secretary of the Pentecostal Church, Incorporated
(PCI). Accused of financial misdealing, he began to
work with William Branham and to have fellowship with
the Latter Rain people. 280 He left the UPCI to found the
International Ministerial Association.
Leonard W. Coote, missionary to Japan and founder
of International Bible College in San Antonio, Texas, a
UPCI institution for a short time.
Harry F. B. Morse, a Oneness Pentecostal pioneer,
the founder of an influential missionary training institute
in Oakland, California, a foreign missions director for the
PCI, and a UPCI minister. He believed in keeping
Saturday as the Sabbath. Many influential pastors and
missionaries, such as David Gray and Ellis Scism, were
trained under him.
A. O. Moore, a UPCI minister who had been foreign
missions director for the PCI at the time of the merger.
Ted Fitch, an independent minister and author of a
book that spoke of the man Christ as preexisting in
angelic form.
The main organizational representatives of the Latter
Rain movement today are Elim Fellowship (90 churches),
the International Ministerial Association (a Oneness
group with 635 churches worldwide), and the
Independent Assemblies of God International (1,800 ministers).
The Gospel Assembly (about 10,000 con-
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