George Jeffreys (1889-1972), a Welshman, based a Elim Pentecostal Church around Monaghan, Ireland within 1915. Jeffreys was an evangelist sustaining the Welsh Congregational church background. He was converted at age Fifteen when you took a Welsh Revival of 1904. The influence of Alexander A. Boddy, an Anglican vicar, led him to turn into taking part in the Pentecostal movement. Between 1915 & 1934, Jeffreys was highly active as a evangelist, & preached to big crowds throughout a United Kingdom. A church wwhen brought together as a Elim Evangelistic Band, however was changed to Elim Foursquare Gospel Alliance while a title was registered by having the food and drug administration inside April 1934. A church title - Elim - was taken from either a book of Exodus chapter 15, verse Twenty-seven. A Israelites, allowing a bondage of Egypt under a leadership of Moses, found an oasis called Elim: "Then they came to Elim, where there were twelve wells of water and seventy palm trees; so they camped there by the waters." Differences of opinion of church governance led Jeffreys to withdraw from either a Elim Pentecostal Church around 1939 and form the Bible-Pattern Church Fellowship within Nottingham, which continues as a little fellowship.

Beliefs include: a Bible as divinely inspired; a triune nature & severity of a Godhead; the divinity, virgin birth, humanity, innocent life, substitutionary atonement; bodily resurrection, present intercession, and 2nd coming of Jesus; a universal wickedness of humanity; the act of the Holy Spirit in conviction, repentance, regeneration & santification; a baptism of the Holy ghost "with signs following"; that salvation is received by faith alone & evidenced per fruits of the Spirit. A baptism of believers by immersion and the Lord's supper are held to be ordinances.

Unlike a bit of of a older partisan churches in the United Kingdom, the EPC has had steadily incubation & at present counts terminated Five hundred churches in the U.K. & just about 9000 worldwide. A Kensington Temple of London is the big church in the denomination & claims to email ended 15,000 humans hebdomadally. Additionally to its operate by owning churches, a International Mission Board operates hospitals, orphanages, & schools around 35 countries. A church operates Regents Theological College around Nantwich, Cheshire. A authority of governance of the church is rested in the annual Conference. Counsel of the denomination is laid in the National Leadership Team & a General Superintendent between sessions. John Glass presently (2004-2005) serves when General Superintendent. Headquarters come within Cheltenham, Gloucester. Elim became the initiation member of the Pentecostal Churches of the United Kingdom in 1998.

Though a local congregations come ordinarily & popularly referred to as Elim Pentecostal Churches, a legal title of the denomination is Elim Foursquare Gospel Alliance, which is according to a church's have for quartet fundamental truths - "Jesus Christ as the Saviour, Healer, Baptiser in the Holy Spirit, and Coming King."