Empowering Spirit, Empowering Structures: The Contributions of Noel Perkin to Assemblies of God World Missions

By Stephen Charles McKnight

Noel Perkin, a banker-turned-missionary, led Assemblies of God World Missions (AGWM) for more than thirty years (1927-59). His life exemplifies the missionary zeal historians have noted within the early Pentecostal movement. Perkin's experience of the Holy Spirit and his experiences as a missionary in Argentina led him to create systems intended to empower others to fulfill Christ's commission to make disciples of all nations. Perkin's empowering leadership played a significant part in AGWM's remarkable growth into a leading Pentecostal mission-sending agency which currently sends over 2,000 missionaries to 140 countries. As one of the principal architects of AGWM's missiology and operation, Perkin transformed a two-person office relying on envelope boxes for its accounting system into a well-structured, strategic mission agency and laid a foundation for AGWM's continued growth. Empowering Spirit, Empowering Structures uses the foundation of a biographical study to examine the concept of empowerment through Perkin's life and the impact that Perkin and his missiology had and continues to have upon AGWM.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1666768928
• ISBN13: 9781666768923
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: Pickwick Publications
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"