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One of the churches William Branham visited during his recovery was the First Pentecostal Baptist Church of Jeffersonville at 328 Watt Street, which was pastored by Rev. Roy Davis, a member of the Ku Klux Klan. It was here that William Branham first met Hope Brumbach (born July 16, 1913), who was a youth leader and speaker at the church, and a seamstress at the shirt manufacturer M. Fine & Sons. <ref> http://searchingforvindication.com/timeline.html as found in the Jeffersonville City Directory, http://en.believethesign.com/index.php/Life_story_by_Julius_Stadsklev</ref> | One of the churches William Branham visited during his recovery was the First Pentecostal Baptist Church of Jeffersonville at 328 Watt Street, which was pastored by Rev. Roy Davis, a member of the Ku Klux Klan. It was here that William Branham first met Hope Brumbach (born July 16, 1913), who was a youth leader and speaker at the church, and a seamstress at the shirt manufacturer M. Fine & Sons. <ref> http://searchingforvindication.com/timeline.html as found in the Jeffersonville City Directory, http://en.believethesign.com/index.php/Life_story_by_Julius_Stadsklev</ref> | ||
Hope’s parents Charles and Hazel Brumbach divorced on November 1, 1931. Charles Brumbach quickly remarried to Grace Creigh February 15, 1932 and moved away from Jeffersonville to Fort Wayne, Indiana (a 3.5 hour drive from Jeffersonville on modern roads). <ref> http://searchingforvindication.com/timeline.html for the marriage and divorce documents.</ref> | |||
[[Image:Image-rs-018 - Sis Hope and Bro Branham.jpg|220px|thumb|William and Hope Branham]] | [[Image:Image-rs-018 - Sis Hope and Bro Branham.jpg|220px|thumb|William and Hope Branham]] | ||
William Branham asked for Hope's hand in marriage after a sermon preached by Roy Davis after a Wednesday night sermon. They talked about it as they walked to her parent’s house from the church. William Branham said he stood on the porch of her parent’s home, Charles stopped playing the Victrola and came out to the porch. William Branham asked Charles if he could marry Hope while Hope remained inside and talked with her mother. <ref> http://en.believethesign.com/index.php/Life_story_by_Julius_Stadsklev in a story written firsthand by William Branham. Also on recording on April 15, 1951, November 8, 1953 and July 20, 1952 in sermons called “A Life Story”.</ref> | William Branham asked for Hope's hand in marriage after a sermon preached by Roy Davis after a Wednesday night sermon. They talked about it as they walked to her parent’s house from the church. William Branham said he stood on the porch of her parent’s home, Charles stopped playing the Victrola and came out to the porch. William Branham asked Charles if he could marry Hope while Hope remained inside and talked with her mother. <ref> http://en.believethesign.com/index.php/Life_story_by_Julius_Stadsklev in a story written firsthand by William Branham. Also on recording on April 15, 1951, November 8, 1953 and July 20, 1952 in sermons called “A Life Story”.</ref> | ||
Roy Davis preached strongly about the Pentecostal revival, advertised regularly in the Jeffersonville Evening News, and wrote that William Branham received the Holy Spirit in his front room. <ref> http://en.believethesign.com/index.php/Roy_Davis#Letter_from_Roy_E._Davis </ref> Even though William Branham said that he did not join a church, it was at this time that he became an elder in the First Pentecostal Baptist Church, and was president of the PBYPU (Pentecostal Baptist Young People) in March 1933. <ref> http://searchingforvindication.com/2013/06/22/The-Common-Peoples-Church/ </ref> | Roy Davis preached strongly about the Pentecostal revival, advertised regularly in the Jeffersonville Evening News, and wrote that William Branham received the Holy Spirit in his front room. <ref> http://en.believethesign.com/index.php/Roy_Davis#Letter_from_Roy_E._Davis </ref> Even though William Branham said that he did not join a church, it was at this time that he became an elder in the First Pentecostal Baptist Church, and was president of the PBYPU (Pentecostal Baptist Young People) in March 1933. <ref> http://searchingforvindication.com/2013/06/22/The-Common-Peoples-Church/ </ref> | ||
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