We are part of the Elim Pentecostal Church that was founded in 1915 in County Monaghan, Ireland under the legal name of “Elim Foursquare Gosple Alliance”. The teaching of Elim is based upon the beliefs that Jesus is the Saviour, the Healer, the Baptiser in the Holy Spirit and the Coming King. The founder was George Jeffreys through whose powerful evangelistic crusades the movement quickly grew spreading throughout the British Isles.

The Elim leaders held the same beliefs as any other Christians, but with one important difference. They believed that God’s promises in the Bible about the Holy Spirit and healing were for Christians today. In other words, miracles aren’t just something that stopped after the Bible was written. The Elim pioneers had rediscovered God’s power, promised in the Bible to all who would completely commit their lives to following Jesus. It was a ‘re-discovery’, not a discovery, because it was nothing new. God has worked in power through different Christians throughout the centuries, right back to the dramatic miracles of the early Church so frequently mentioned in the Bible.

Today, Elim comprises over 500 churches in the UK and Ireland, and we are also linked to over 9,000 Elim churches in other countries. Elim is also in co-operative fellowship with thousands of other Pentecostal churches around the world, and Elim missionaries are at work today in over 40 countries. A Bible college was established in 1924, to train ministers and missionaries. Today it is called Regents Theological College and accepts students not just from Elim churches but many others as well. Elim publishes ‘Direction’ magazine every month, to keep local church members in touch with what is going on nationally and internationally. And Elim also has its own Youth Department ‘Serious4God’ (see weblink below) which is seeing many young people rising to the challenge of communicating the good news of Jesus to today’s youth culture. The Governing Body of Elim is the Annnual Conference. This has grown to such an extent that a Pontin’s Holiday Centre at Prestatyn in Wales is used and around 2,500 people gather annually for one week of worship, teaching and fellowship, as well as for ministers and delegates from churches to meet in Conference.

It is our belief that, as a growing movement, Elim has a significant part to play in the world today, and we are confidently looking forward to what God will do in the future.

The name “Elim” is taken from Exodus 15:27 where we read that the Israelites “came to Elim where there were twelve springs and seventy palm trees, and they camped there near the water”(NIV). You can imagine what this oasis meant to weary people after days of slogging through the soft clingy sand with the sun beating down relentlessly on their backs. After the dust and heat and thirst of the desert, the shade of those stately palms and the cool sparkle of those refreshing springs muct have seemed like heaven on earth. Hence this oasis in the desert is a fitting symbol for a church that preaches a message of, salvation, healing, refreshing and rest for body, soul and spirit in a stress filled world.

Serious4God is the National Youth Department of the Elim Pentecostal Church.
“We believe young people can change their world and the worlds of other people”
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