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Our Vision
"SFGC's vision is to be an apostolic ministry, equipping ministers engaged in training believers for practical ministry in local and global missions to proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ"
Our Mission
"SFGC exists to bring healing to the hurting world by training believers and releasing them to take the Gospel of Jesus to the nations"
Over 80 Years of History
The history of the Saskatoon Full Gospel Church has its roots in the outpouring of the Holy Spirit at the turn of the 20th century. Prior to that time, the Holy Spirit had been mostly silent since the Dark Ages. There were scattered reports of unusual phenomena occurring in revival services during the last decade of the 19th century. It was December 31, 1900 at 7 pm that the Holy Spirit was poured out with the evidence of speaking in tongues at a Bible school in Topeka, Kansas. News of this carefully documented case soon spread across the United States. To say the least, this shook up the religious circles of the day. The phenomena began spreading like wildfire and focused on the famous Azuza Street Mission in Los Angeles California.
Pastors, from all over North America, visited and were baptized in the Holy Spirit at the Azuza Street Mission. Pastor William H. Durham of Chicago was one of those who carried the Holy Spirit flame from California to points further north. In 1911, Pastor Durham held a campaign in Winnipeg, Manitoba. A wonderful visitation of God flowed at those meetings. Attending those meetings was Brother Frank Small - one of the original founders of the Apostolic Church of Pentecost of Canada.
The Apostolic Church of Pentecost of Canada (ACOP) was chartered October 25, 1921 in Winnipeg. The fellowship grew with many revival meetings and crusades. One of the early leaders in the ACOP was O.J. (Ole John) Lovick.
O.J. Lovick was a Norwegian, of Lutheran upbringing, who had come to Canada from Minnesota to work for a Christian farmer near Hanley, Saskatchewan. During that time, he was wonderfully saved. He homesteaded near Elrose, where he opened a farm equipment dealership. It wasn’t long before he began doing ministry work of singing and preaching. After marrying, he attended Rochester Bible Training School in Rochester, New York. There he was baptized in the Holy Spirit and was also healed after prayer and anointing from the famed and godly evangelist Smith Wigglesworth. This was O.J. Lovick’s preparation for ministry.
He returned to Saskatchewan and began meetings in various towns southwest of Saskatoon. God honored his call by granting exceptional miracles of healing and salvation to many local people. Lovick felt God’s further call to "establish churches throughout Saskatchewan", and to "baptize believers in the name of Jesus Christ".
Prophetic messages and personal experiences with God continued to confirm the Lord’s leading. In obedience to this call of God, Lovick established Apostolic churches in Swift Current, Regina, Moose Jaw, Yorkton (in that order), and then, in March of 1924, meetings were held in Saskatoon.
Old Knox Presbyterian Church, located at the south end of 2nd Avenue next to the river, was rented for meetings. The church seated twelve hundred people. It was packed nightly to hear Lovick’s powerful messages of salvation and divine healing. The altar area of the church was decorated with crutches, trusses and other items that were left behind as a result of the many healings.
Soon after meetings were begun in Saskatoon, Rev. Frank G. Small, Moderator of the then recently formed Apostolic Church of Pentecost of Canada, came for a series of meetings. Crowds continued to come and God blessed mightily. As the meetings progressed, all of Saskatoon and the surrounding country were moved by the undeniable power of God to which countless miracles of healing bore testimony. The Lovicks stayed in Saskatoon for six months, and then moved on to Alberta and finally Los Angeles, California. Our church in Saskatoon was born.
Pastor Joe Erickson was called from Yorkton to advance the work in Saskatoon in September of 1924. He served as pastor for three years in which the rented facility was purchased and renamed the Old Knox Apostolic Church.
The young church went through some trying times as a doctrinally rebellious faction apparently deceitfully gained title of the church and ousted its founders. Satan has a way of always trying to disrupt the work of the Lord.
The young faithful church held on under various leaders until the spring of 1932 when Rev. R.E.S. Toms began as pastor.
Under Rev. Toms, the Wesley Methodist Church at the corner of 19th Street and Avenue G was purchased. The church could hold 800 but only had a congregation of 200. Within one year the church was filled to capacity. Pastor Toms solidified the Saskatoon Apostolic Church with 17 years of leadership. It was during that time radio broadcasts (“Apostolic Church of the Air”) began, as well as "The Prairie Apostolic Bible School". The Bible school was later amalgamated with the "Full Gospel Bible Institute" in 1953.
A new church was built at the 19th Street and Avenue G address in 1969 under the leadership of Rev. Denzil Fenn. The church continued to grow and was filled to capacity under the ministry of Rev. Ben Kirkpatrick.
A daughter church, "Northside Full Gospel Church", was started under Rev. Kirkpatrick in 1982. Its first pastor was Rev. Ken Parker. That church ran until 1988.
On July 1, 1985, the former Churchill Park School at 2410 Haultain Avenue was purchased for the growing congregation. The school was renovated and the church named "Churchill Park Full Gospel Fellowship". This is the present location of our assembly of believers.
The Lord has blessed the church with spiritual growth under Rev. Terry Noël. In August 1999 the church name was changed to “Saskatoon Full Gospel Church”. Now, in 2006 the Sasktoon Full Gospel Church is working not only in the city of Saskatoon but activly in our Provinces and Nations.
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