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| Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ of the Apostolic Faith | |
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| Classification | Protestant |
| Orientation | Oneness Pentecostal |
| Polity | Episcopal |
| Founder | Robert Clarence Lawson |
| Origin | 1919 New York City |
| Branched from | Pentecostal Assemblies of the World |
| Separations | Bible Way Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ World Wide, Inc., 1957 |
| Congregations | 700-900 churches |
| Members | 500,000+ |
Coordinates: 40°48′30″N 73°56′54″W / 40.808233°N 73.948300°W
The Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ of the Apostolic Faith is a Oneness Pentecostal church founded in 1919 by Robert C. Lawson.
The church's mission statement is: "To evangelize the world for Jesus Christ; to equip every believer to become true Disciples of Christ; and to engage those social problems that challenge the communities we have been called to serve."
The "Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ", as it is most commonly known, was organized by Robert C. Lawson, a protégé of G.T. Haywood, who claimed salvation and the baptism of the Holy Ghost in 1913.
In 1914 Lawson was called to the ministry and soon began evangelizing, mainly in the Mid-West, and pastoring in Columbus, Ohio. When he found himself at odds with the leadership of the Pentecostal Assemblies of the World, Lawson resigned from that organization in 1919 and moved to New York City, where he founded the Refuge Church of Christ, after the members of a prayer band in Harlem welcomed him and turned their meetings over to him. That small church grew and became known as the Refuge Temple, and, later, the Greater Refuge Temple. It was the hub of Lawson's evangelistic efforts in the Northeast. Lawson's field work took him up and down the East Coast, throughout the West Indies, and as far as West Africa, where he appointed missionaries to carry on spiritual work.
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