The Assemblies Of God Is Made Up Of Over 600 Churches Throughout Great Britain.

 What we Believe

We are a Pentecostal movement that believes that every individual can and should have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ and have the opportunity to be part of a local, vibrant church. Read what we believe about God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit, the Bible, and other significant aspects of our faith. Our beliefs guide our decisions as a church.

  • We believe that the Bible (i.e. the Old and New Testaments excluding the Apocrypha), is the inspired Word of God, the infallible, all sufficient rule for faith and practice.

  • We believe in the unity of the One True and Living God who is the Eternal, Self-Existent “I AM”, Who has also revealed Himself as One being co-existing in three Persons – Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

  • We believe in the Virgin Birth, Sinless Life, Miraculous Ministry, Substitutionary Atoning Death, Bodily Resurrection, Triumphant Ascension and Abiding Intercession of the Lord Jesus Christ and in His personal, visible, bodily return in power and glory as the blessed hope of all believers.

  • We believe in the fall of man, who was created pure and upright, but fell by voluntary transgression.

  • We believe in salvation through faith in Christ, who, according to the Scriptures, died for our sins, was buried and was raised from the dead on the third day, and that through His Blood we have Redemption.

  • This experience is also known as the new birth, and is an instantaneous and complete operation of the Holy Spirit upon initial faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.

  • We believe that all who have truly repented and believed in Christ as Lord and Saviour are commanded to be baptised by immersion in water.

  • We believe in the baptism in the Holy Spirit as an enduement of the believer with power for service, the essential, biblical evidence of which is the speaking with other tongues as the Spirit gives utterance.

  • We believe in the operation of the gifts of the Holy Spirit and the gifts of Christ in the Church today.

  • We believe in holiness of life and conduct in obedience to the command of God.

  • We believe that deliverance from sickness, by Divine Healing is provided for in the Atonement.

  • We believe that all who have truly repented and believe in Christ as Lord and Saviour should regularly participate in Breaking of Bread.

  • We believe in the bodily resurrection of all men, the everlasting conscious bliss of all who truly believe in our Lord Jesus Christ and the everlasting conscious punishment of all whose names are not written in the Book of Life.

How it All Started

In the late 1800s and early 1900s there was a revival characterized by manifestations of the Holy Spirit, and it was out of this that the Assemblies of God was formed.

In February 1924, Nelson Parr, the pastor of a congregation in Manchester, called a meeting of fourteen people in Aston, Birmingham, in which they decided to form the Assemblies of God in the UK with their 26 congregations. Others were invited, but train strikes meant that many people couldn't get there.

During the meeting, they agreed on the Fundamental Truths, and to work together to protect sound doctrine and to work together to achieve what they couldn't do on their own.

A second meeting was held in May that year, in Highbury, London, when another 48 congregations joined. On the second day of the meeting, Elim leaders were present, and a partnership was discussed, with Elim providing the evangelistic side – but it was decided to be postponed for the present.

In January 1926, the AoG GB leaders took complete leadership of the previous Pentecostal Missionary Union – which had a Bible School at Hampstead in London. This maintained its independence but became the Bible school for the Assemblies of God.

The building was destroyed in 1940 – 41. Other buildings were used for a time before the college moved to Kenley in Surrey in 1950, and amalgamated with the Bristol Bible College in 1951. Eventually, the college moved to Mattersey, near Doncaster in Yorkshire, in 1973.

The AoG offices were in Lewisham, London, transferred to Luton in 1953, and then moved to Nottingham in 1971.

In 2012 Mattersey Hall was turned into the National Ministry Centre for the AoG, and the Nottingham offices moved there too. In the summer of 2021, the National Ministry Centre was moved to Manchester, where the launch of the new bible College Missio Dei started in September 2021 also.