Futures Church
church in Roswell, Australia and USA
Futures Church, formerly Influencers Church, is a Pentecostal church affiliated to the Assemblies of God, with congregations in the state of South Australia, Australia, and in the southern United States. It was founded in Adelaide in 1922. In 2023, Influencers Church officially changed their name to Futures Church. The church teaches a prosperity gospel.
History
The church was founded in 1922 by British evangelist Smith Wigglesworth., becoming known as Adelaide Assembly of God (AOG) when a property on Franklin Street, Adelaide was purchased in 1944. In 1951 Tom Evans, a British missionary from India, became senior pastor. Pastors John and Beryl Jobe commenced as senior pastors in 1959. Their vision was to move into the suburbs where the people lived, so the Franklin Street property was sold, and the church relocated to Payneham, before it shifted to Main North East Road Klemzig.
In 1970, Andrew Evans, the oldest son of Tom Evans, became the first non-founding senior pastor of what was by then called Klemzig Assembly of God. Under his ministry the church grew from weekly church attendance of 150 to over 2,000 people.
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