Frank Ewart
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Francis John Ewart (1876 – August 13, 1947) was a Pentecostal preacher, author and one of the founders of Oneness Pentecostalism
and the UPCI
.
bush missionary until he immigrated to Weyburn, Saskatchewan, Canada in 1903 where he pastured a Baptist church and married Violet May. With declining health Ewart was furloughed in 1908 during which he attended a Pentecostal camp meeting in Portland, Oregon where he converted to Pentecostalism which resulted in his dismissal from the Baptist church he was pastoring. In 1911 Ewart moved to Los Angeles and became assistant pastor and later pastor of William Durham’s
Seventh Street Mission after Durham's death. In 1913 Ewart attended the World Wide Apostolic Faith Camp Meeting where Ewart heard R.E. McAlister give the initial sermon on Jesus' Name doctrine
. During and after the meeting Ewart, McAlister and later Glenn Cook meet and refined the new Jesus's Name doctrine. By 1914 Ewart and Cook started preaching Jesus's Name doctrine and re-baptized each other in the name of Jesus. As well as preaching Ewart created Meat in Due Season a periodical that advocated for the Jesus's Name doctrine and had a global reach persuading many Pentecostals including G.T Haywood
, Frank Small, Elmer K. Fisher, E.N. Bell and L.C. Hall. Nearing the end of his life Ewart wrote The Phenomenon of Pentecost a narrative history of the Pentecostal movement that is still recommended reading by the UPCI. On August 13, 1947 Ewart died of cancer.
Oneness Pentecostalism
Oneness Pentecostalism refers to a grouping of denominations and believers within Pentecostal Christianity, all of whom subscribe to the nontrinitarian theological doctrine of Oneness...
and the UPCI
United Pentecostal Church International
The United Pentecostal Church International is a Pentecostal Christian denomination, headquartered in the St. Louis suburb of Hazelwood, Missouri. It is a part of the Oneness or "Apostolic" portion of the Pentecostal Movement, and was formed in 1945 by a merger of the former Pentecostal Church,...
.
Early ministry
Ewart was born in Australia in 1876 and worked as a BaptistBaptist
Baptists comprise a group of Christian denominations and churches that subscribe to a doctrine that baptism should be performed only for professing believers , and that it must be done by immersion...
bush missionary until he immigrated to Weyburn, Saskatchewan, Canada in 1903 where he pastured a Baptist church and married Violet May. With declining health Ewart was furloughed in 1908 during which he attended a Pentecostal camp meeting in Portland, Oregon where he converted to Pentecostalism which resulted in his dismissal from the Baptist church he was pastoring. In 1911 Ewart moved to Los Angeles and became assistant pastor and later pastor of William Durham’s
William Howard Durham
William Howard Durham was an early Pentecostal preacher and theologian, best known for advocating the Finished Work doctrine.-Early life and career:...
Seventh Street Mission after Durham's death. In 1913 Ewart attended the World Wide Apostolic Faith Camp Meeting where Ewart heard R.E. McAlister give the initial sermon on Jesus' Name doctrine
Jesus' Name doctrine
Jesus' Name Doctrine is a minority nontrinitarian theology, characterised by a belief that baptism must be performed "in the name of Jesus", rather than the more common Trinitarian formula "in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit"....
. During and after the meeting Ewart, McAlister and later Glenn Cook meet and refined the new Jesus's Name doctrine. By 1914 Ewart and Cook started preaching Jesus's Name doctrine and re-baptized each other in the name of Jesus. As well as preaching Ewart created Meat in Due Season a periodical that advocated for the Jesus's Name doctrine and had a global reach persuading many Pentecostals including G.T Haywood
Garfield Thomas Haywood
Garfield Thomas Haywood was an African American pastor and song writer who served as Presiding Bishop of the Pentecostal Assemblies of the World from 1925 to 1931.-Early life:...
, Frank Small, Elmer K. Fisher, E.N. Bell and L.C. Hall. Nearing the end of his life Ewart wrote The Phenomenon of Pentecost a narrative history of the Pentecostal movement that is still recommended reading by the UPCI. On August 13, 1947 Ewart died of cancer.