Apostolic Faith Mission Gaborone (AFM Block 7)

Apostolic Faith Mission Gaborone, known as AFM Block 7, is a Pentecostal church at 22 Basotho Road in Block 7, Gaborone, Botswana. It is a congregation of the Apostolic Faith Mission (AFM), a Pentecostal denomination present in many African countries. The Apostolic Faith Mission was founded in Johannesburg in 1908 by John G. Lake and Thomas Hezmalhalch, missionaries from the United States who had been baptised in the Holy Spirit at the Azusa Street Mission in Los Angeles, the centre of the early Pentecostal revival. The AFM of South Africa describes itself as that country's first and largest Pentecostal church, and names Botswana among the African countries in which the AFM exists. National AFM churches are linked through AFM International, a fellowship of 23 national churches. The AFM's teaching is classical Pentecostal. It holds the Bible to be the word of God, practises believer's baptism by immersion and the Lord's Supper, and teaches baptism in the Holy Spirit, with speaking in tongues as its initial evidence. Block 7 is one of the numbered residential blocks of Gaborone. The city was founded in 1964, became Botswana's capital at independence in 1966, and had 246,325 residents at the 2022 census. Service times and the name of the pastor have not been published online, so it is worth phoning ahead before a first visit.

22 Basotho Rd, Block 7, Gaborone, Botswana
Gaborone

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