Life and Death the Pentecostal Way
BBC2
Anyone curious about the apparent success of the Pentecostal churches in retaining and building their congregations will have watched Life and Death the Pentecostal Way (20 November) with great interest. It took us inside the New Testament Church of God in Brixton, south London, which is packed on Sundays. This is a solidly West Indian institution, founded in the 1950s when the first Caribbean immigrants received a less than warm welcome in London’s established churches. But the Pentecostal churches were not founded in protest, explained the Church of God’s Bishop Brown.
“In their hearts there was a Pentecostal fire. They had to find and plant those churches that would help them give expression to the God that they knew and the faith that they had back home,” said Bishop Brown.