Religious Figure. A pioneer in the modern pentecostal movement tracing its roots to the historic 1906-1909 Azusa Street in Los Angeles, California. Antonio Nava's ministry beginning in 1918, evangelizing and pastoring in Yuma, Arizona, and the border towns of Calexico, California and Mexicali, Baja California. Rev. Nava helped incorporate The Apostolic Assembly In Faith Christ Jesus in 1930. He helped shepherd the growth and consolidation of the Spanish Apostolic movement in the Southwest United States, Mexico, and Central and South America. He served terms as Presiding Bishop in The Apostolic Assembly in 1950 and then in 1963. Thereafter, he served in an advisory capacity to the organization as an honorary bishop. In 1994, The Apostolic Assembly established the Antonio C. Nava Charitable Trust Fund, as the church's charitable agency for retired ministers, widows, orphans, educational scholarships and disaster relief. He has helped affirm the Oneness doctrine of belief in One God and the New Testament salvation of repentance, baptism by immersion in the name of Jesus, and the infilling of the Holy Ghost by the evidence in speaking in tongues. As one of the founder's of the Apostolic movement. Today, there are 650 churches in 40 states missionaries in 18 countries.
Religious Figure. A pioneer in the modern pentecostal movement tracing its roots to the historic 1906-1909 Azusa Street in Los Angeles, California. Antonio Nava's ministry beginning in 1918, evangelizing and pastoring in Yuma, Arizona, and the border towns of Calexico, California and Mexicali, Baja California. Rev. Nava helped incorporate The Apostolic Assembly In Faith Christ Jesus in 1930. He helped shepherd the growth and consolidation of the Spanish Apostolic movement in the Southwest United States, Mexico, and Central and South America. He served terms as Presiding Bishop in The Apostolic Assembly in 1950 and then in 1963. Thereafter, he served in an advisory capacity to the organization as an honorary bishop. In 1994, The Apostolic Assembly established the Antonio C. Nava Charitable Trust Fund, as the church's charitable agency for retired ministers, widows, orphans, educational scholarships and disaster relief. He has helped affirm the Oneness doctrine of belief in One God and the New Testament salvation of repentance, baptism by immersion in the name of Jesus, and the infilling of the Holy Ghost by the evidence in speaking in tongues. As one of the founder's of the Apostolic movement. Today, there are 650 churches in 40 states missionaries in 18 countries.
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