- Jim Bakker
James Orsen Bakker (born January 2, 1940, in Muskegon, Michigan) is an American televangelist, a former Assemblies of God minister, and a former host (with his then-wife Tammy Faye Bakker) of "The PTL Club," a popular evangelical Christian television program. A sex scandal led to his resignation from the ministry. Subsequent revelations of accounting fraud brought about his imprisonment and divorce and effectively ended his time in the larger public eye. - Jimmy Swaggart
Jimmy Lee Swaggart (born March 15, 1935 in Ferriday, Louisiana) is a Pentecostal preacher and pioneer of televangelism who reached the height of his popularity in the 1980s. Swaggart is first cousin to recording artists Jerry Lee Lewis and Mickey Gilley. The sons of three sisters, all of them share the same middle name and play the piano. - Paul Crouch
Paul Franklin Crouch (born March 29, 1934) is a the co-founder, chairman, and president of the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN), the world's largest Christian television network. The network has grown to 47 satellite stations and 12,500 affiliates, reaching nearly 100,000,000 households globally. Crouch, raised in Missouri, is the son of Pentecostal missionaries. - A. A. Allen
A. A. Allen was born Asa A. Allen at Sulphur Rock, Arkansas into the Methodist church. His middle name, given only as "A." on his birth certificate, was changed to "Alonso" at around age four. A later Pentecostal convert, Allen’s life and methods were not without controversy and as with many of the other tent evangelists, he was the recipient of much criticism and personal scrutiny. Allen died in June of 1970 in San Francisco, … - David Yonggi Cho
David Yonggi Cho is a Korean Christian minister. He is Senior Pastor of the Yoido Full Gospel Church (Assemblies of God), which is the world's largest congregation, with a membership of over 800,000 in 2006 - Jan Crouch
Jan Crouch (born Janice Wendell Bethany, 1937) is the co-founder, vice-president and director of programming of the Trinity Broadcasting Network, or TBN, the world's largest Christian television network. She is the daughter of an Assemblies of God pastor. She married her husband, Paul, in 1958. The Chronicle of Philanthropy in 2004 reported Crouch's annual personal income as $361,000. The network reports that during the first twenty years of its operation, … - Brian Houston
Brian Houston is the Senior Pastor of Hillsong Church in Sydney, Australia, a Pentecostal Christian church, affiliated with the Assemblies of God. With a current congregation of over 20,000 people, it is considered to be Australia's largest church, and has growing congregations in London, Kiev and Paris. Brian is also the National President of the Assemblies of God in Australia, the largest Pentecostal movement in Australia. - Andrew Evans
Andrew Evans OAM (born June 1935), is an Australia politician and Assemblies of God pastor. The founder of the Family First Party, he was elected to the South Australian Legislative Council on 9 February 2002. For 30 years, Pastor Evans served as Senior Minister of Paradise Assembly of God in Adelaide, now known as Paradise Community Church. He was National Superintendent of the Assemblies of God in Australia for 20 years 1977 to 1997, … - Gordon Fee
Gordon Fee is a New Testament scholar who, after teaching briefly at Wheaton College in Illinois, taught at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton, Massachusetts until 1986. He then moved to Regent College in Vancouver, Canada where he is now Professor Emeritus. He also serves on the advisory board of the International Institute for Christian Studies. - Anthony Venn-Brown
Anthony Venn-Brown (born 13 March, 1951) is a former evangelist and minister in the Australian Assemblies of God and the Co-founder and Convenor of Freedom 2 B[e] which is a network for GLBTIQ (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex and Queer) people from Pentecostal and Charismatic backgrounds. - Tommy Barnett
Tommy Barnett is pastor of one of the fastest growing churches in the United States, Phoenix First Assembly of God in Phoenix, Arizona. The church is known as "the church with a heart" because of its over 200 outreach ministries. Phoenix First Assembly boasts an average weekly attendance of over 15,000 worshipers. Pastor Barnett began his ministry at age sixteen. He preached in city-wide meetings, camps, churches, seminars, … - David du Plessis
David Johannes du Plessis (February 7, 1905 - January 31, 1987) was a South African-born Pentecostal minister, and is considered one of the main founders of the charismatic movement, in which the Pentecostal experience spread to non-Pentecostal churches worldwide. He was converted to evangelical Christianity at 16, and received what Pentecostals call the Baptism of the Holy Spirit at the age of 18, a spiritual experience accompanied by speaking in tongues. - Maria Woodworth-Etter
Maria Woodworth-Etter (1844-1924) was a famous evangelist in the founding years of the Assemblies of God. She was born in New Lisbon, Ohio, born-again in 1857 and married Philo Horace Woodworth in 1863. When disease took five of her six children, Maria (pronounced Ma-ri-ah) had a vision which led her to dedicate her life to the ministry. In 1902, she married Samuel Etter. After spending over 40 years of her life preaching thousands of sermons across America, … - Jack Coe
Jack Coe was one of the first tent evangelists of the post World War II period in the United States. Coe was ordained in the Assemblies of God in 1944, and began to preach while still serving in World War II. After receiving a miraculous healing, Coe felt called of God to the gospel ministry. For the next twelve years Coe would be a leading proponent of divine healing and organize many tent revivals to spread his message. - Becky Fischer
Becky Fischer (born 1951) is a Pentecostal children's pastor. She is best known for her role in the 2006 documentary film "Jesus Camp." Fischer is a third-generation Pentecostal on her father's side and a fourth-generation Pentecostal on her mother's side. Her grandfather was an ordained minister with the Assemblies of God for 75 years. Fischer was a businesswoman in her native Bismarck, North Dakota for 23 years, … - Guy Sebastian
Guy Theodore Sebastian (born October 26, 1981) is an Australian singer-songwriter and winner of the first "Australian Idol" TV talent competition quest in 2003. Since winning the competition, he has released three top five albums and seven top twenty singles and has sold over a million albums and singles in Australia alone. He has also had substantial success overseas with number one hits in New Zealand, Malaysia, and Singapore. - Mehdi Dibaj
Mehdi Dibaj (c. 1935 - June/July 1994) was an Iranian Christian convert from Islam, pastor and Christian martyr. Dibaj became a Christian as a young man and joined the Jama'at-e Rabbani Church, the Iranian branch of the Assemblies of God. After the 1979 Iranian revolution he encountered difficulties. In 1983 he was arrested and imprisoned without trial in Sari and systematically tortured. - Steve Fielding
Steven Fielding (born 17 October 1960), is a Victorian Senator and the Federal parliamentary leader of the Family First Party in Australia. Fielding was born in Melbourne and educated at Melbourne University, where he graduated in engineering, and at Monash University, where he gained an MBA. He worked as an engineer and business executive before entering politics. He was a member of the Knox City Council in 2003-04. - Frank Houston
Frank Houston born William Francis Houston in Wanganui, New Zealand, 1922 died Sydney, Australia, 8 November 2004. He commenced ministry training as a Salvation Army officer shortly after turning 18. He married Hazel and they had five children. They transferred to the Baptist church, and later to the Assemblies of God. Houston founded his first Assemblies of God ministry at Lower Hutt in 1960, … - Danny Nalliah
Danny Nalliah (born 1964) is an Australian Christian evangelist pastor. He is the leader of Rise Up Australia, a prayer organisation, and the President of the Assemblies of God-affiliated Catch the Fire Ministries. Nalliah is particularly known for a case brought against him under Victoria's Racial and Religious Tolerance Act by the Islamic Council of Victoria. In this landmark case, along with his colleague Daniel Scot, … - Gary Chapman
Gary Chapman (born August 19, 1957 in Waurika, Oklahoma) is an American singer/songwriter and former television talk show host. The son of an Assemblies of God pastor, Gary Chapman grew up in De Leon, Texas. He performed in bands throughout high school and college. After college, he moved to Nashville and was hired as bass player for The Rambos. In 1979, his song "Father's Eyes" was recorded as the title track to Amy Grant's second album. - Richard Dortch
Richard W. Dortch was a former president of the PTL Christian evangelical television network, affiliated with the Assemblies of God. In 1988, he was indicted on federal charges of fraud and conspiracy to divert millions in charitable donations for personal benefit, along with other executives of PTL. In a plea bargain, Dortch pled guilty to reduced charges. Richard W. Dortch was the Illinois District Superintendent of the Assemblies of God from 1970 - 1983. - Haik Hovsepian Mehr
Haik Hovsepian Mehr (January 6, 1945, Tehran, killed January, 1994), was an Iranian bishop and Christian martyr. He was the Bishop of the "Jama'at-e Rabbani" church (part of the Assemblies of God church movement) until his death. While Armenian by ethnicity, Hovsepian Mehr had a strong motivation to evangelise Iranian Muslims. He was an outspoken Christian apologist and evangelist and a gifted musician. - Wayne Hughes
Wayne Hughes was a New Zealand Pentecostal minister. Until early 2005, he was the Senior Pastor of the Takapuna Assembly of God in Auckland. A photographer by training, Hughes became Pastor of the Takapuna Assembly of God in 1975. Under his leadership spanning three decades, it grew from 25 members to about 1600 adherents as of 2005. About a third of these are formal members. As well as pastoring the Takapuna Assembly of God, … - J. Stephen Conn
J. Stephen Conn, born January 26, 1945, is an ordained Protestant minister and writer. During 45 years of ministry he was the founder and pastor of 12 different local congregatons in the United States. He has been ordained by three major denominations: the Church of God (Cleveland), Assemblies of God and Southern Baptist Convention. As an author Conn has published more than 300 magazine articles and 5 books, … - Luis Cabral
Luis Cabral is a Portuguese Protestant evangelist. Born in Angola around 1965, Cabral was raised in a nominally Catholic household, but was converted to Pentecostalism at the age of 18. After graduating from university with a law degree, Cabral worked for a time in television and in business. He felt his true calling was the ministry and was ordained in his early twenties. He then became as a pastor in the Portuguese branch of the Assemblies of God denomination, … - Phil Dooley
Phil Dooley is an Australian Assemblies of God pastor. He is the Youth Pastor of Hillsong United, the youth group of Hillsong Church and has recently been appointed to oversee the Worship & Creative Arts department in Hillsong Church. He is often featured on the Hillsong United album. He is married to Lucinda, who also pastors at Hillsong Church, and lives in Sydney. - Eugene Scott
William Eugene Scott, also known as Dr. Gene Scott, (August 14, 1929 - February 21, 2005), was a United States pastor and teacher who served for almost fifty years as an ordained minister. In 1975 he began nightly live broadcasts as a televangelist, and eventually satellite broadcasts extended his services and talk shows to many countries. The televised eccentricities of the white-maned preacher included chomping on cigars, … - Stephen Green
Stephen Green is the leader of Christian Voice (UK), coming to media prominence through the outcry against "Jerry Springer - The Opera". He is a fundamentalist Christian, previously an Anglican, he now attends an Assemblies of God Church and has worked in the building trade. In the early 1990s Green was a prominent campaigner against homosexuality through the Conservative Family Campaign, and wrote a book called "The Sexual Dead-End" giving his opinions in detail. - Frank E. Peretti
Frank E. Peretti (born January 13, 1951) is a best-selling contemporary Christian fiction novelist with more than twelve million manuscripts in print. Best known for his supernatural thriller titles "This Present Darkness" and "The Oath", he primarily focuses on Christian topics, especially those surrounding spiritual warfare. Born in Canada and raised in Seattle, Washington, … - Paulo Romeiro
Paulo Rodrigues Romeiro is a Brazilian Christian apologist and pastor. Formerly the president of the Instituto Cristão de Pesquisas (also known as ICP or CRI Brazil), Dr Romeiro is currently the chairman of the Agência de Informações Religiosas (AGIR) in São Paulo. He works closely with The Centers for Apologetics Research (CFAR). He is also a noted member of the Christian countercult movement. - Peter Furler
Peter Andrew Furler was born in South Australia on September 8, 1966, the third of six children of Christian Revival Crusade (and later Assemblies of God) pastor Bill Furler and his wife Rosalie. He frequently drove his five siblings (Debbie, Vicki, Mark, Julie, and David) crazy by banging on anything he could find, such as the back seat of the car or his lap. As a teenager, he was able to listen to the radio, hear the first chord of a song, … - Don Eastman
Rev Elder Don Eastman originally served as a Pastor in the Assemblies of God, leaving when he felt unable to deny his identity as gay man. After ordination in the Metropolitan Community Church, Rev Eastman pastored Churches in Des Moines, Iowa and Dallas, Texas before then going on to serve as a full time Elder in denominational head quarters in Los Angeles in 1986. Rev Eastman has recently relocated to Fort Lauderdale, … - Jay N. Forrest
Rev. Dr. Jay N. Forrest (born June 21, 1964), is a independent Christian minister, scholar, theologian, and author who has been involved with the Pentecostal/Charismatic movement for over 20 years. - David L. Cook
David L. Cook (born November 11, 1968) is a Christian country music singer and comedian. - William Lau
William Lau, along with his wife Lucille, founded the "Elijah Challenge" in the late 1990's. Based in Houston, Texas, USA, their mission is to train the Church of Jesus Christ in the New Model of Evangelism. This New Model involves the equipping of every "ordinary" believer and church---whether evangelical or charismatic---to heal the sick miraculously [via so-called Healing Encounters] to demonstrate to the world that Jesus is the only way to the Father. - Illiafi Esera
Illiafi Esera is a Christian minister of the Assemblies of God denomination. Reverend Esera is an internationally renowned speaker amongst Christian organisations, who's popularity is growing outside of the Christian community. He holds the positions of Assistant Superintendent of the Assemblies of God in New Zealand and Senior Pastor of Faith City Church in Wanganui, New Zealand. Reverend Esera is of Samoan birth and married to Fia Esera, … - Graham Houghton
Graham Houghton, founding principal of the South Asia Institute of Advanced Christian Studies (SAIACS), in Bangalore, India, was born in 1938 and raised in New Zealand, on a farm in the Manawatu near Palmerston North. Houghton left high school during his fifth form year with an intention to expand the family farm. However, after a personal religious experience he left the farm, trained for two years (1960-61) at the Bible College of New Zealand, … - Josaia Rayawa
Ratu Josaia Naulumatua Rayawa is a Fijian Chief, religious minister, and political leader. He served in the Senate from 2001 to 2006 as one of nine nominees of the Fijian government. He had previously been President of the now-defunct Christian Democratic Alliance (VLV), which won three seats in the 1999 election. Rayawa was born in Nabudrau, Noco, in Rewa Province on 28 December 1931. - Steve Hill
Steve Hill (born 1954 in Huntsville, Alabama) is an American Christian clergyman and evangelist. He is best known as the evangelist who preached for more than five years in what became known as the Brownsville Revival, a series of meetings at Brownsville Assembly of God in Pensacola, Florida that began on Father's Day, 1995. Though the meetings continue today in a somewhat reduced form, …
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