Church of God World Missions
■ by Bill George
Celebrates 100 Years
W
ILLIAM HOWARD TAFT was along with a Bahamian couple, Edmond Three more countries welcomed
United States president, a and Rebecca Barr, who had recently church representatives in the next few
man’s life expectancy was 48 returned to Nassau from Florida, has years: Canada in 1919, Romania in 1922,
years, divorce affected only one out of a been productive. The Church of God in and Jamaica in 1924.
thousand marriages, the average annual the Bahamas and the Church of God of Twelve new countries were entered
salary was $750, and a new Ford could be Prophecy, which divided from the parent in the 1930s, 15 others in the 1940s, 22
bought for $345. The year was 1910. It church in the early 1920s, have spread more in the 1950s, and the work has
was also the year the first Church of God throughout the islands and bear faithful steadily continued, with ministry initiat-
missionary left the United States.the United States. Pentecostal witness.Pentecostal witness. ed in 21 new fields since the twenty-firsted in 21 new fields since t
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women who commitment toc
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home and fam- sion ministry.si
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gospel to distantt Assembly in 1927A
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