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Pentecostal tent campaign, 1958

Pentecostal tent campaign, 1958

Pentecostal evangelists, from left Beryl and Rob Wheeler and Mavis and Ian Hunt, pose with their children outside the ex-army tent used from 1957 for their New Zealand-wide 'Word of Faith Ministry'. At times the tent was pitched directly opposite a church whose members they wished to convert. Rob Wheeler later became a leader in the New Life group of Pentecostal churches.

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Reference: Brett Knowles, New Life: a history of the New Life Churches of New Zealand, 1942-1979. Dunedin: Third Millennium Publishing, 1999.
Photograph by Rob Wheeler

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Mark Derby, 'Diverse Christian churches - Pentecostal and Destiny churches', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/photograph/31128/pentecostal-tent-campaign-1958 (accessed 29 March 2024)

Story by Mark Derby, published 5 May 2011, reviewed & revised 20 Apr 2018