The predominant leadership style in the Modern American Church

The predominant leadership style in the Modern American Church

History Of The Church and Leadership

The Church of God of Prophecy in Guatemala , historically belongs to the so-called missions or subsequent names. As mentioned Dr. Virgilio Zapata Arceyuz in his book "History of the Church in Guatemala", first became known as Mission National Evangelical founded on October 5, 1923 by Pastor Ram ng Ruano Peña. Then he joined the Church of God of Prophecy based in Cleveland Tennessee, United States of America. The 16 street and first avenue corner of Zone 1, Guatemala City, was the site of the early Church.

In the fifties the brothers Jorge and Ramon Pena Ruano make contact with elders of that church, then after several talks were made arrangements by which the brother Jorge Ruano Peña came to be the first national supervisor led the Church in the country. After He succeeds his brother Ramon Pena Ruano finally his son Augusto Ruano Lorini.

In the sixties, the national office of the supervisor was chaired by several brothers among them quote: Bishop Jaco Montijo, and Ledesma Soto. Following the schism occurred in the period of supervision led by the family Ruano Peña, under the administration of Bishop Ruben Morales of Puerto Rico , the church is the need to add another word to its name: the Church of God Universal prophecy, the name was used until the present date in Guatemala and the Republic of El Salvador . In the seventies, under the leadership of the national supervisor Ruben Morales Romero, the Church comes an awakening of missionary type. Despite the war that threatened to cold country . The Church spread throughout the territory, you start the project of national tent. Following the earthquake of 1976, acquires land in Perez Quizasola Mixco to help some people affected by the earthquake, then the Bishop Manuel Hernández U.S. consolidates this growth in the financial management side. In the eighties the Bishop Jorge Marrero of the Dominican Republic , National Supervisor is appointed, a position that performance for 18 years. It organized the country with a government where all the country was consolidated with regional supervisors, later called the area. The tabernacle is located in the Colonia Nueva Montserrat Joint Zone 4 was completed, it was for all conventions until 2002. Historically, the church also suffered the effects of the cold war, several pastors gave their lives for the cause of Christ, it reminds Pedro Arredondo and Eladio Perez, in the territory of the Peten, people who did not come to be seen by his family . We should also mention that in the nineties, there is a schism in the United States and contributes to the national church. At the end of this decade comes to Guatemala representatives of this new organization called "The Church of God of the Bible." Start their work in the South. Among its main leaders are the brothers Paul Ramírez Lepe, sister Naomi Lopez, et ...