History

Triennially, the Pentecostal World Fellowship organizes the Pentecostal World Conference for Pentecostal and Spirit-filled leaders. It was in May 1947 that Swiss pastor Leonard Steiner,  David J. du Plessis, J Roswell Flower  and Donald Gee organized a conference for Pentecostal leaders. Three thousand attended this first conference.  Triennial conferences followed and in 1961, this celebrative gathering was officially named the Pentecostal World Conference (PWC).

The Pentecostal World Conference has been conducted in major cities in the world :

  • Zurich (1947)
  • Paris (1949)
  • London (1952)
  • Stockholm (1955)
  • Toronto (1958)
  • Jerusalem (1961)
  • Helsinki (1964)
  • Rio de Janeiro (1967)
  • Dallas, Texas (1970)
  • Seoul (1973)
  • London (1976)
  • Vancouver (1979)
  • Nairobi (1982)
  • Zurich (1985)
  • Singapore (1989)
  • Oslo (1992)
  • Jerusalem (1995)
  • Seoul (1998)
  • Los Angeles (2001)
  • Johannesburg (2004)
  • Surabaya (2007)
  • Stockholm (2010)

The next Pentecostal World Conference will be held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from 27-30 August 2013.

FORMER HEADS OF PENTECOSTAL WORLD FELLOWSHIP

 
Leonard Steiner
1947-		 Thomas F. Zimmerman
1967-1969, 1971-1989		  Percy S. Brewster
1970
   
 Dr. Ray H. Hughes
1989-1998		  Dr. Thomas Trask
1998-2005		  Bishop James D. Leggett
2005-2010

OTHER LEADERS OF NOTE OF THE PENTECOSTAL WORLD CONFERENCES

 
Donald Gee
Founding editor of Pentecost magazine		 David du Plessis
PWF Secretary		  

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