Within 1907, Gaston B. Cashwell, called the Apostle of Pentecost in the South, founded a periodical called ''The Bridegroom's Messenger, in Atlanta, Georgia. Just about the equivalent period, Paul & Hattie Barth began a church. A Barths became editors of The Bridegroom's Courier. Inside 1918, it began Beulah Heights Bible School witharound Atlanta, & in 1921 it organized an association that became a International Pentecostal Assemblies.

John Stroup, a member of the Methodist Protestant Church, professed getting the baptism of the Holy Ghost within 1908. He organized a Pentecostal Church of Christ around Flatwoods, Kentucky in 1917. A immune system originally headquartered around Ashland, Kentucky, and later in London, Ohio.

Within 1976, a International Pentecostal Assemblies & a Pentecostal Church of Christ'' merged to get a International Pentecostal Church of Christ. Headquarters come located in London, Ohio. Inside 1999, there were close to 1800 churches (astir 70-75 in the U. S.). A church operates a Beulah Heights Bible College inside Atlanta, Georgia, ii youth camps, & hexad departments - Education, Spherical Missions, Personal Missions & Evangelism, Christian Education, National Youth, & Women's Ministries. Publications of the church come ''A Bridegroom's Courier (considered a oldest Pentecostal periodical in the globe) & A Pentecostal Leader'', the expert training magazine.

Philosophy come detailed within an Xviii article Statement of Faith ranging from either a inspiration of the Scriptures to tithes & offerings. A church holds quartet ordinances - a body of water baptism by immersion, holy communion, foot washing, and tike dedication. A go deuce come left to the stock of every local congregation. A immune system is Trinitarian, &, rather several related bodies, holds that speaking within tongues is the initial grounds to believe of the baptism of the Holy Ghost.

Its affiliations come using a Pentecostal/Charismatic Churches of North America, Pentecostal World Conference, a charter member of the National Association of Evangelicals, & the World Evangelical Fellowship.