A controversial debate about racism in the United Pentecostal Church International is now raging in the denomination after an interracial couple who led one of the denomination’s churches in Missouri for 15 years announced their exit from the group on Sunday.
With some 42,000 congregations globally serving nearly 5 million members, the UPCI is the world’s largest Oneness Pentecostal denomination. It emerged in 1945 after racism and Jim Crow laws caused white Pentecostals to split from the Pentecostal Assemblies of the World — an interracial organization at the time.
While the UPCI has since opposed “racism, prejudice, and segregation” and proudly states that it is an organization that is predominantly non-white globally, Pastor Adam Medina of New Destiny Apostolic Church in Maplewood and his wife Dawn say the church body isn’t doing nearly enough stateside. And that’s why they are now part of a group called Apostolic International Ministries and have renamed…
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