Pentecostal\/Charismatic Churches of North America (PCCNA) is going back to its roots in Memphis, Tennessee, to celebrate 25 years of breaking walls between races and denominations to grow and serve together. PCCNA will commemorate the “Memphis Miracle<\/a>” which founded the organization on the first night of the three-day \u201cBreakthrough Conference.\u201d The service on March 19, which is open to the public at Mason Temple, will commemorate the moment when Don Evans, a young white Assemblies of God pastor, washed the feet of Bishop Ithiel Clemmons of the Church of God in Christ (COGIC) on October 18, 1994. Pastor Evans repented to Bishop Clemmons and asked for forgiveness for his white brothers and sisters.<\/p>\n Pastor Evans’ contrition moved COGIC’s Bishop Charles Blake to ask Thomas Trask, general superintendent of the Assemblies of God, for forgiveness for any animosity African Americans had harbored toward white brothers and sisters. The Memphis Miracle was a spontaneous capstone of the “Pentecostal Partners: A Reconciliation Strategy for 21st Century Ministry” conference. After the conference, the Pentecostal Fellowship of North America (PFNA), comprised of white leaders, was disbanded and PCCNA was born.<\/p>\n The leaders who brought the races together in Memphis in 1994 were Bishop Ithiel Clemmons of the Church of God in Christ (COGIC), and Bishop Bernard E. Underwood of the International Pentecostal Holiness Church. With great trust and mutual dedication, these two men were able to lay the groundwork for the 1994 meeting in Memphis.<\/p>\n When Underwood was elected to head the PFNA in 1991, he purposed in his heart to use his term to end the racial divide between the Pentecostal churches. On March 6, 1992, the Board of Administration voted unanimously to pursue the possibility of reconciliation with our African-American brethren.<\/p>\n During the birth of PCCNA, the leaders approved the Racial Reconciliation Manifesto. PCCNA then dramatically expanded membership to denominations, church networks, parachurch ministries, and churches in Canada and Mexico. In 2011, PCCNA led a campaign that sent a million dollars\u2019 worth of\u00a0insecticide-treated bed nets to protect Africans from the deadly malaria parasite. PCCNA has also captured the stories of the Pentecostal movement in two books<\/a>,\u00a0Servants of the Spirit\u00a0<\/em>and Miracle Invasion<\/em>.<\/p>\n PCCNA also launched several commissions aligned with its strategic vision: Church Health\/Acts 2, Christian Unity, Communications and Media, Discipleship, Prayer, Race Relations, and Women in Leadership. Reaching next-gen leaders is a priority for PCCNA as well. With that intent, PCCNA kicked off a mentoring program within the NextGen Commission of selected up and coming leaders. For more information about the Breakthrough Conference, please visit the website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"excerpt","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":3463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,610],"tags":[662,664,49,661,665,666,663],"class_list":{"0":"post-3432","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-general","8":"category-justice","9":"tag-memphis","10":"tag-memphis-miracle","11":"tag-pccna","12":"tag-pentecostal-charismatic-churches-of-north-america","13":"tag-racial-reconciliation","14":"tag-racial-reconciliation-manifesto","15":"tag-tennessee","16":"entry"},"title_es":"PCCNA para celebrar el milagro de Memphis","content_es":"
\r\n\r\nLas Iglesias Pentecostales \/ Carism\u00e1ticas de Am\u00e9rica del Norte (PCCNA) est\u00e1n regresando a sus ra\u00edces en Memphis, Tennessee, para celebrar los 25 a\u00f1os de romper muros entre razas y denominaciones para crecer y servir juntos. PCCNA conmemorar\u00e1 el \" Memphis Miracle<\/a> \" que fund\u00f3 la organizaci\u00f3n en la primera noche de la \"Conferencia de avance\" de tres d\u00edas. El servicio el 19 de marzo, que est\u00e1 abierto al p\u00fablico en Mason Temple, conmemorar\u00e1 el momento en que Don Evans, un joven pastor de las Asambleas de Dios blanco, lav\u00f3 los pies del obispo Ithiel Clemmons de la Iglesia de Dios en Cristo (COGIC) el 18 de octubre de 1994. El pastor Evans se arrepinti\u00f3 del obispo Clemmons y le pidi\u00f3 perd\u00f3n a sus hermanos y hermanas blancos. La contrici\u00f3n del pastor Evans hizo que el obispo Charles Blake de COGIC le pidiera a Thomas Trask, superintendente general de las Asambleas de Dios, el perd\u00f3n por cualquier animosidad que los afroamericanos hab\u00edan albergado hacia los hermanos y hermanas blancos. El milagro de Memphis fue una piedra angular espont\u00e1nea de la conferencia \"Socios pentecostales: una estrategia de reconciliaci\u00f3n para el ministerio del siglo XXI\". Despu\u00e9s de la conferencia, la Asociaci\u00f3n Pentecostal de Am\u00e9rica del Norte (PFNA), compuesta por l\u00edderes blancos, se disolvi\u00f3 y naci\u00f3 la PCCNA. Los l\u00edderes que reunieron a las razas en Memphis en 1994 fueron el obispo Ithiel Clemmons de la Iglesia de Dios en Cristo (COGIC) y el obispo Bernard E. Underwood de la Iglesia Internacional de Santidad Pentecostal. Con gran confianza y dedicaci\u00f3n mutua, estos dos hombres pudieron sentar las bases para la reuni\u00f3n de 1994 en Memphis. Cuando Underwood fue elegido para encabezar el PFNA en 1991, se propuso en su coraz\u00f3n usar su t\u00e9rmino para terminar con la divisi\u00f3n racial entre las iglesias pentecostales. El 6 de marzo de 1992, la Junta de Administraci\u00f3n vot\u00f3 por unanimidad para buscar la posibilidad de reconciliaci\u00f3n con nuestros hermanos afroamericanos. Durante el nacimiento de la PCCNA, los l\u00edderes aprobaron el Manifiesto de Reconciliaci\u00f3n Racial. PCCNA luego expandi\u00f3 dram\u00e1ticamente la membres\u00eda a las denominaciones, redes de iglesias, ministerios de parachurch e iglesias en Canad\u00e1 y M\u00e9xico. En 2011, PCCNA lider\u00f3 una campa\u00f1a que envi\u00f3 un valor de un mill\u00f3n de d\u00f3lares en mosquiteros tratados con insecticida para proteger a los africanos del mortal par\u00e1sito de la malaria. PCCNA tambi\u00e9n ha capturado las historias del movimiento pentecostal en dos libros<\/a> , Siervos del esp\u00edritu<\/em> e Invasi\u00f3n de milagros<\/em> . PCCNA tambi\u00e9n lanz\u00f3 varias comisiones alineadas con su visi\u00f3n estrat\u00e9gica: Salud de la Iglesia \/ Hechos 2, Unidad Cristiana, Comunicaciones y Medios, Discipulado, Oraci\u00f3n, Relaciones Raciales y Mujeres en Liderazgo. Llegar a los l\u00edderes de la pr\u00f3xima generaci\u00f3n tambi\u00e9n es una prioridad para PCCNA. Con esa intenci\u00f3n, PCCNA inici\u00f3 un programa de mentor\u00eda dentro de la Comisi\u00f3n NextGen de l\u00edderes emergentes seleccionados. Para obtener m\u00e1s informaci\u00f3n sobre la conferencia Breakthrough, visite el sitio web<\/a> .","author_name":"Leilani Haywood, PCCNA","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/gso\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/02\/Memphis-Miracle-C-Footwashing-e1549999965112.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb62Bx-Tm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iphc.org\/gso\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}