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Pentecostal tent campaign, 1958

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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.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Private collection

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

by Rob Wheeler

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Mark Derby, Diverse Christian churches – Pentecostal and Destiny churches, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/31128/pentecostal-tent-campaign-1958 (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Mark Derby, i tāngia i te 21 April 2011.