Honouring Our Past Embracing Our Future

Honouring Our Past

Beginning in Ireland in 1915, under the leadership of evangelist George Jeffreys, Elim was birthed as a dynamic Pentecostal movement dedicated to pioneer evangelism, church planting and Holy Spirit ministry.
Embracing Our Future

One hundred years later, Elim has hundreds of churches in cities, towns and communities throughout the UK and works in over 40 countries around the world. At the core of Elim there are thousands of ordinary people serving God in extraordinary ways.



The Beginnings of the Elim Movement As Elim 100 gives thanks to God for the past and
looking to Gog in faith for the future.

Taken from above above Elim website
Elim’s birth was extraordinary. The year was 1915. It could hardly have been a less promising time as the nation was feeling the full horrors of the First World War. In Monaghan, Ireland, a small group of young men had invited welsh evangelist George Jeffreys to hold some meetings. Their fervour and faith drew him and, on 7 January 1915, in the Temperance Hall the Elim Evangelistic Band was formed to spread the Christian gospel in the power of the Holy Spirit to Ireland and beyond.

George Jeffreys hailed from Maesteg in South Wales. He had been converted in the 1904 Welsh revival and baptised in the Spirit some three years later. With his older brother Stephen he had begun to preach a “full gospel” message with significant results. God blessed his ministry with many converts and a growing number of people were filled with the Holy Spirit and many were miraculously healed in the meetings. This resulted in George being invited to the popular Sunderland Convention in 1913 where he received the invitation to Ireland.

Quickly other men and women gathered to Jeffreys and the emerging Elim work. Many of them were young, some barely out of their teens. Yet they were caught up in what they believed to be a fresh wave of the Holy Spirit which so many had been praying and believing for. With no plan to start a denomination, the Elim Team planned campaigns and outreaches in town after town and city after city. This growing group of Pentecostal believers found fresh identity not just in the exciting brand of meetings and methods with which they had been reached for Christ but in their experience of the baptism in the Holy Spirit, attested to by speaking in tongues and in the miracles and healings which were a regular feature of so many of their meetings.

George Jeffreys chose the name Elim for the new movement following the practice in his home of Wales of giving churches biblical names and also after the Elim Mission he had visited in Lytham, Lancashire.

The many Elim converts were often not welcome in other churches. The first Elim Church was opened in 1916 in Hunter Street, Belfast in a former laundry. Soon afterwards a more suitable building was found in Melbourne Street, Belfast. This would be the hub of the growing Elim work in Ireland for the next few years. They purchased a large tent to hold evangelistic campaigns, they looked for suitable buildings to gather the new converts and they sought every opportunity to reach people for Christ and pioneer new churches. By 1920 there were 15 Elim Churches in Ireland and 21 recognised Elim ministers. The Elim Evangel, first published in 1919, began to tell the larger story of what God was doing through these Elim pioneers as well as sharing personal testimonies from many who were converted and healed.

During these years Jeffreys regularly preached all over Britain but he did not establish his first church outside Ireland until 1921, at Leigh on Sea, Essex. A number of other churches began to join the Elim movement including independent Pentecostal fellowships in Dowlais, Wales and Vazon, Guernsey. In 1922 George moved to Clapham, London where the Elim Team began to establish a new church and a ministry base. They opened administrative offices and began to look at the growing needs of the increasing numbers of churches and ministers as well as the challenge of evangelising a nation.

By 1924 they had opened the first Elim Bible School at Clapham to train young men and women for the ministry. They had also launched a Publishing House, a correspondence course to train up church workers and an overseas missions department which had begun sending Pentecostal missionaries across the world.

From 1926, Jeffreys and his evangelistic team accelerated their efforts to reach the towns and cities of Britain. Typically they went into a city with little or no advertising and met in a church building or hired public hall. As the meetings progressed people would begin to accept Christ and there would often be a dramatic healing, news would spread fast around the area, numbers would increase and they would move from hall to hall to accommodate the huge crowds. Often the meetings would make the local and even the national papers. In Plymouth, Hull, Southampton, Carlisle, Glasgow, Dundee, Leeds and scores of other centres, thousands upon thousands turned to Christ and strong Elim churches were left behind.

In 1929 Jeffreys returned to his native Wales. In Cardiff from 22 September 22 he began what became 51 nights of meetings attracting a total 150,000 people with over 3,000 converts. In Swansea the very next night he started a further 6 week campaign which would see over 2,000 decisions. One man, Glyn Thomas, was remarkably healed in one of the meetings. Glyn was a hunchback who sold newspapers in the city centre. His healing had a profound effect on the whole city.

In Birmingham in 1930 the Elim team opened meetings in a church off the city centre with just a handful of people. Yet within weeks they were filling the celebrated Town Hall. Eventually, they would pack the vast Bingley Halls and leave over 10,000 converts.

Whilst George Jeffreys was the founding leader and evangelist, Elim was no one man band. There was gathered “to Elim” an exceptional group of men and women who lived radical and sacrificial lives to spread the flame of Pentecost. One such man was James Goreham. Impacted by the Southampton campaign in 1928, James returned to his home town of Romsey in Hampshire and started an Elim church. He went on to open four others including churches in Andover and Salisbury. James Goreham died at the age of 26 from tuberculosis. His Elim collegaues mourned his loss but rejoiced in all that he had accomplished for Christ in such a short time.

From 1926, the Elim movement had gathered every Easter at the Royal Albert Hall and held large scale Celebration meetings which they called “Demonstrations”. This showed their fervent expectancy that God was demonstrating His grace and His love and that Elim people were caught up in something of great relevance for every man woman and child. By 1936, the 21 year old Elim family gathered at the Crystal Palace to give thanks for all that God had done in birthing and establishing the Elim Movement. They came in their thousands, testifying to lives changed and communities impacted by the life changing gospel. With choirs, orchestras, brass bands and a mighty congregation they sang, they praised, they testified and they prayed that what had been established would not simply be maintained but would mature and grow.

It had not been easy for these early Elim pioneers. At first they had been moved by their experience of the gospel message and the power of the Holy Spirit. They had launched out with confidence that God would equip them at every stage. Yet they had faced much opposition, not least from liberal churches and fellow Christians who were hostile to the Pentecostal message and experience. Yet, they had see God move in them and through them to the point where there were new Elim churches across the nation.

As well as practical and organisational challenges within the Elim movement, the coming years would see the ravages of another World War and a dramatically altered social and spiritual climate which would change the landscape for Christian outreach and evangelism as they had known it.

Yet the Elim movement would move, season by season, with a deep conviction that God had birthed Elim for a purpose. So, they would return again and again to the pioneering values and practices – the DNA – which had characterised those very small beginnings.

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THIS IS A MUST READ FOR EVERY PENTECOSTAL OR NON PENTECOSTAL CHRISTIAN. It has a question and answer section at the back. Sadly there is much misunderstanding in the church today about this subject; there is also a misuse of the gifts in operation in the local church which is casing many to avoid this part of the believer’s life. I have no financial gain promoting these books, I only seek to convey the truth of God’s word and provide recourses to equip the family of God in the last days.

This book is subtitled 'The Baptism and Gifts of the Holy Spirit.' It is an essential teaching for the church of every age!

It is my option that this is one of the best balanced books on the subject of 'The Baptism and Gifts of the Holy Spirit and the fruit of the Holy Spirit'. Principle George Jeffreys uses his experience as the principle of the Elim Bible collage to compare the different schools of thought and explain the Elim/ Bible Pattern view in a very balanced way.

Format: Digital facsimile, pdf, 277pp

Alternatively should you wish to search for a hard copy of the book, I trust the following details may help.

Pentecostal rays: The baptism and gifts of the Holy Spirit [Hardcover]

George Jeffreys (Author) Product details • Hardcover: 255 pages

Publisher: Elim (1933) • Language English • ASIN: B00086V05UICK

William Jeffreys A SHORT HISTORY

WILLIAM JEFFREYS A SHORT HISTORY (brother of Stephen and George Jeffreys)

William married "Jane" and had eight children. 1. Thomas who moved to Port Elizabeth South Africa and had one son Ken who lived in Swansea. 2. George who married Connie. They had one son Peter who married Carole and lived in Clitheroe. 3. Jennett who married a preacher and had no children. 4. Mary who had one daughter, Jean. 5. Doris who married Ernie and had one son called Robert who lives in Tunbridge Wells. 6. Naomi who was married and had one son, John. 7. Haden who married Elsa and had no children. 8. Iorwerth who married Myra and had three children - Alun, Philip and Helen.

Pastor William's ministry led him to Pentremalwyn chapel in Morriston, Swansea. Also Electric Avenue in Westcliffe on Sea, Essex. He had revival meetings in Cornwall and Kent.

I remember my Grandmother Sylvia Thomas talking about William. I believe that he had a very good sense of humour and fun and was quite good with his hands. William visited my grandparents whilst they lived in London and did some odd jobs for them. This was a great help as my grandfather at the time was busy with the pastorate of the Bible Pattern Church Barking Essex.

He is buried in Edmonton cemetery, North London with his wife Jane.

I will add more infomation when I have it.   Also see the Jeffreys familey tree article on 31/10/2011 which includes short history infomation about Williams brother Stephen and his son Edward.

America,New Zealand and Australia. with Tom Thomas

I am making good headway with my book about Pastor Stephen Jeffreys, I recived an enquiry about the Evangelist Tom Thomas and his connnection with Stephen Jeffreys who he somtimes accompanied.

I just happened to be at the point in writting my book about Pastor Stephen Jeffreys which covers this question. I hope you find the following intereseting.

Stephen sailed for America and then on to New Zealand and Australia.
Large crowds thronged his meetings in America. In Springfield, where the General Offices of the American Assemblies of God are located, he was specially blessed. 3,000 were in the meetings and people started queueing at five o'clock in the morning outside the home where he was staying. In Los Angeles the crowds grew to 7,000.

Stephen arrived in Wellington, New Zealand on October 22nd with his wife and nephew Tom Thomas, his sister Ann’s son as his song leader; where, in spite of atrocious weather, the crowds gathered just as they had done everywhere else, and with meeting in the Exhibition Hall, Wellington with 1,400 attending climbing to 2,000. Other meetings were held in New Plymouth, Palmerston North and Christchurch. Then followed the Annual conference of the New Zealand Assemblies of God moving on to Auckland.

The same results of convincing conversions and amazing healings. A letter from Stephen in Redemption Tidings, February 1929, gave his own story of the healing of a Maori Chief.

'A doctor belonging to the Maori people had been attending some of the meetings, and the Chief of the tribe was poorly with cancer; so he told him that he could hold out no hope for him and advised him to try to get me. I shall never forget the welcome they gave us. I prayed for the chief and I am glad to say the Lord wonderfully touched him. He rose up, walked about and came into town.'

Stephen's restrained account was typical of the man. Fortunately, his nephew, Tom Thomas, who was with his uncle as campaign soloist, added more details:

'Pastor Stephen laid his hands on the poor emaciated body of the Maori Chief. The power of God descended in answer to his prayer and the once-dying man literally shook from head to feet. To the amazement of the tribe, he got up from his bed and walked, a thing he had not done for a considerable time. He shouted and waved his hands, saying: "I am healed." The result was electrifying. There was no need to appeal for converts. They just fell on their faces and cried to God for salvation.'

From New Zealand Stephen moved on to Australia. In the Richmond suburb of Melbourne, a newsvendor, a well-known figure on the street corners, who had been deaf and dumb since the 1914-18 war, was brought into an afternoon healing service. His friends brought him in mainly as a joke but the power of God was present in a powerful way that night and when Stephen laid his hands upon him he both spoke and heard. This once deaf mute went down the Hall waving his hands and shouting: 'Jesus has healed me!' Still shouting he ran out into the street. Stephen seeing this turned to his nephew and said “there goes my congregation!” however, It was no wonder that overflowing crowds returned and thronged the building that night.

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Three Schools of Thought on the Israel Question. A booklet by Principle George Jeffreys

Christ is Coming. Booklet by Principal George Jeffreys

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