George Jeffreys

George Jeffreys

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George Jeffreys (1889–1962). Born on February 28, 1889, in Nantyffylon, Maesteg, Wales, to Thomas and Kezia Jeffreys, George Jeffreys was a Welsh evangelist and founder of the Elim Pentecostal Church. One of eight sons in a mining family, he faced early hardships, including a speech impediment and facial paralysis, and the loss of four brothers, a sister, and his father. Converted at 15 during the 1904–1905 Welsh Revival under Glasnant Jones, alongside his brother Stephen, he embraced Christianity with zeal. Initially skeptical of Pentecostalism, he was baptized in the Holy Spirit in 1911 after his nephew Edward spoke in tongues, overcoming his speech issues. Mentored by Cecil Polhill and trained at Thomas Myerscough’s Pentecostal Missionary Union Bible School, Jeffreys began preaching in 1913, founding the Elim Evangelistic Band in Monaghan, Ireland, in 1915, which became the Elim Foursquare Gospel Alliance. His crusades, marked by reported healings and thousands of conversions, planted churches across the UK, including Belfast (1916) and London’s Clapham (1921), filling venues like the Royal Albert Hall. From 1934–1936, he saw 14,000 converts in Switzerland and preached at the 1939 Stockholm Pentecostal Conference. Author of Healing Rays (1932) and Pentecostal Rays (1933), he emphasized divine healing and biblical authority. Differences over church governance and his British Israelism led to his resignation from Elim in 1940, after which he founded the Bible-Pattern Church Fellowship in Nottingham, which declined after his death. Married late in life, he had no children. Jeffreys died on January 26, 1962, in London, saying, “Revival begins when Jesus is exalted.”
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