This page features the lives of ministers who were pioneers in the revelation and dissemination of Post-Pentecostal Christian doctrine, founded on the teachings of the Apostle Paul. The number of those chosen is small within the group that has contributed to the Glorious Church of Christ. Those presented here were personally known to the author and played a part in her spiritual journey.
The Ewing Family
My first experience at a New Testament Church meeting happened when my Presbyterian mother took me to the old Methodist Camp at the age of five. They gathered once a year, every summer, for ten days. Every year thereafter, for a long time, I genuinely longed to live according to the New Testament Divine Order at that old Camp in Waco, Texas.
It was in September 1929 that this humble writer, Glenn Ewing, received the Pentecostal experience, similar to the testimony of the early Church in Acts 2:4. I had never seen or heard of anyone else undergo this experience, and as an elder in the Presbyterian Church, everything was new to me when the Lord imparted this sanctifying experience. During the night, I had a vision and felt a longing to win souls for the Lord.
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I grew up and never forgot those experiences. Years later, our Presbyterian pastor, Dr. J.J. Grier, contracted tuberculosis, and medical science gave up on him. He turned to God as his healer and found the promise of Hebrews 13:8, which says, "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, and today, and forever." So he trusted completely in the Lord as his divine healer. He recovered miraculously and began preaching about divine healing in the Presbyterian Church, and later on, on the radio. We live to hear testimonies of many miracles of healing and deliverance Opposition arose against him, leading him to leave his Presbyterian church, after which he held prayer meetings in a small two-room schoolhouse in North Waco. He was a man of great faith who never solicited offerings. He kept a small, miniature temple on a table at the entrance of the church, marked "offerings to the Lord," and his salary came from the Sunday morning offering. We learned much from him about Divine Faith. When the Lord called him to his heavenly home, I succeeded him in the ministry in 1943. I saw the congregation as made up of mature men and women who knew more about leading a church than I did. I then began preaching about the sanctification experience of Acts 2:4, or more commonly known as the baptism in the Holy Spirit, which the Lord Jesus received before starting His earthly ministry. Later, different people began experiencing this remarkable event, and one Sunday morning, our old friends from the Presbyterian Church stood up and departed. We witnessed such a perfect revival that it seemed as though we were undone. My wife, our four children, and three elderly folk stayed with me. Dear Brother Tom, Dove inspired me and visited our family every night that winter to pray.
Costa Deir
El fundador es el director general de International Leadership Seminars, Inc., un ministerio transdenominacional afiliado a Elim Fellowship en Lima, Nueva York. Ha viajado extensamente por todos los continentes, impartiendo seminarios de formación de líderes y llegando a miles de ellos.
Nacido y criado en Israel, el Dr. Deir fue boxeador, director y pastor. Obtuvo su doctorado en filosofía, psicología, medicina preventiva y teología.
A menudo se le llamaba el Apóstol de la Alegría. Pasó su juventud en Oriente Medio durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Creció odiando la guerra y la muerte. Tras servir en el ejército británico, se convirtió al cristianismo a través del ministerio de un misionero en su propio barrio.
Inmediatamente quedó cautivado por la Biblia y dedicó ese año a la oración y a su lectura. Se convirtió en un celoso evangelista de la gran verdad que había encontrado. Distribuyó Biblias y fue testigo de muchos milagros de Dios en la provisión para su adquisición. Poco después, se convirtió en un evangelista itinerante y, a los 35 años, se fue a los Estados Unidos. Allí se casó con una exmisionera de Egipto y fueron guiados al Instituto Bíblico Elim en Lima, Nueva York. Sirvió como maestro, pastor y, más tarde, como secretario de misiones, viajando a las naciones. Su pasión era preparar líderes en países en desarrollo que pudieran cumplir mejor los propósitos de Dios en sus vidas. Esto lo llevó a fundar los Seminarios de Liderazgo Internacional para cumplir este objetivo. El Señor le dio más de 30 000 principios sobre liderazgo, y tocó a miles de pastores y líderes cristianos en todo el mundo. Su vida, su familia y su ministerio fueron siempre para la gloria de Dios.
Mrs Zidermanis was born on October 16, 1917, in Riga, Latvia, to Karlis Grinbergs and Hannah Loisider Grinberga.
We read in an article from legacies that last.com and “My Paris Texas” that Helga Zidermanis, as a pregnant mom, had to escape her homeland in a hurry with her four-and-one-half children near the end of WWII, approximately when the Soviets took over. She had to leave her husband and their father behind. Mrs Zidermanis was called to be a world missionary. She ministered around the world and helped to establish many churches. Helga was well known as an outstanding Christian teacher and is mentioned by the co-founder of Christ for the Nations Bible School, Freda Lindsay of Dallas, TX, in her autobiography, My Diary Secrets, p. 188. Helga never remarried.
Helga worked on the ministry team with Brother and Apostle Glenn Ewing, and her primary teaching was “The Tabernacle and the Priestly Garments.” She had a great knowledge of the word and of the doctrine of the Church as reflected in the New Testament, and she had a great motherly and missionary love for the Icelandic people, as well as for other parts of Europe. Helga Zidermanis worked very closely with the brother and former Pastor of the Vegurinn Church in Iceland, as well as with the Church's leadership. She contributed to the teaching and edification of the ministers there. She also had the opportunity to visit different churches in Iceland, and her voice was heard many times on Iceland's Christian radio. The author of this page met Helga Z. when she was only 18 years old, and she was a great role model as a minister and mother to the people of God. The recordings of her sermons have been saved and will be posted on this page for the blessing of all Christians, because we know that is what she would have wanted.