Originally from Guatemala, Alfonso and Vilma and their 4-year-old daughter came to Minnesota in 1993 after being forced to emigrate due to the country’s political situation.

When Oliver and Elizabeth began their pastorate in Detroit in 2013, they had just arrived in the city. They realized that, although the Eternal Rock Church had been in operation since 1992, the people still did not have a vision, mission, and values.

Faith Assembly in Quitman, Mississippi, was started in 1994 by Pastor C.A. Farmer, his wife Cecelia, and a small group of people who shared a desire to provide a Pentecostal church in their county with reaching the lost as their main focus.

Bill and Becky Harness have a long history with First Assembly in West Memphis, Ark.

Seven years ago Tim and Addie Parke became the pastors of New Life Assembly of God, after a group of 43 adults organized the Monticello, Arkansas, church, approved by the Arkansas Assemblies of God district.