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Davis appointed associates to serve as leaders in the churches while he was away. In the Jeffersonville First Pentecostal Baptist Church, Hope Brumback was made worship leader, and William Branham and George De'Ark were made ministering elders. He appointed his brothers Dan and W.J. as leaders of other groups.<ref>Sunday Service in Local Churches, Jeffersonville Evening News, February 4, 1933</ref><ref>First Pentecostal Baptist, Jeffersonville Evening News, February 18, 1933</ref> | Davis appointed associates to serve as leaders in the churches while he was away. In the Jeffersonville First Pentecostal Baptist Church, Hope Brumback was made worship leader, and William Branham and George De'Ark were made ministering elders. He appointed his brothers Dan and W.J. as leaders of other groups.<ref>Sunday Service in Local Churches, Jeffersonville Evening News, February 4, 1933</ref><ref>First Pentecostal Baptist, Jeffersonville Evening News, February 18, 1933</ref> | ||
William Branham joined Davis's church in 1929 where he was baptized and ordained by Davis as a minister and began to serve as an elder the same year. | William Branham joined Davis's church in 1929 where he was baptized and ordained by Davis as a minister and began to serve as an elder the same year.<ref>Weaver, p.26, 33</ref> In his sermons, Branham indicated that Christian Identity Theology was being taught by elders in Roy Davis's church: | ||
:''The first time I ever met anyone in my life, after I had been converted…I was…met Brother George DeArk and them down there. And I was walked, and the Lord led me to a little place. And they was discussing where the colored man came from. And they were trying to say that the colored man…That Cain married an animal like an ape, and through there come forth the colored race. Now, that’s wrong! Absolutely, that’s wrong! And don’t never stand for that. Cause there was no colored or white, or any other different, it’s just one race of people unto the flood. Then after the flood and the tower of Babel, when they began to scatter out, that’s when they taken their colors and so forth. They’re all come from the same tree. That’s exactly right. Adam and Eve was the father and mother, earthly, of every living creature of human beings that’s ever been on the earth. That’s right.:''<ref>William Branham, 7-1006 - Questions And Answers On Hebrews #3 - October 6, 1957</ref> | :''The first time I ever met anyone in my life, after I had been converted…I was…met Brother George DeArk and them down there. And I was walked, and the Lord led me to a little place. And they was discussing where the colored man came from. And they were trying to say that the colored man…That Cain married an animal like an ape, and through there come forth the colored race. Now, that’s wrong! Absolutely, that’s wrong! And don’t never stand for that. Cause there was no colored or white, or any other different, it’s just one race of people unto the flood. Then after the flood and the tower of Babel, when they began to scatter out, that’s when they taken their colors and so forth. They’re all come from the same tree. That’s exactly right. Adam and Eve was the father and mother, earthly, of every living creature of human beings that’s ever been on the earth. That’s right.:''<ref>William Branham, 7-1006 - Questions And Answers On Hebrews #3 - October 6, 1957</ref> | ||
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==Roy Davis' Pentecostal Baptist Church== | ==Roy Davis' Pentecostal Baptist Church== | ||
William Branham stated that, prior to ministering on his own, he was the assistant pastor at the Missionary Baptist Church in Jeffersonville, Indiana and that he served under the direction of Dr. Roy E. Davis, the pastor, who also ordained him. | William Branham stated that, prior to ministering on his own, he was the assistant pastor at the Missionary Baptist Church in Jeffersonville, Indiana and that he served under the direction of Dr. Roy E. Davis, the pastor, who also ordained him. But this is not true as the actual name of the Davis' church was the "First Pentecostal Baptist Church." | ||
It appears that sometime in 1933 or 1934, the First Pentecostal Baptist Church burned down. At around the same time, Roy Davis was extradited from Indiana to Arkansas to stand trial for grand theft.<ref>https://issuu.com/charismata/docs/apostolic_faith_and_pentecostal_tim_f1466ac0c35c77 (retrieved December 30, 2023)</ref> | |||
This also puts into serious question William Branham's assertion that he left his position as assistant pastor and started holding meetings on his own in 1933, because of a disagreement with Roy Davis over the ordination of women. | |||
According to Douglas Weaver in his book, ''The Healer-Prophet'', '''Roy E. Davis''' was the pastor of the '''First Baptist Pentecostal Church''' in Jeffersonville, Indiana. Roy Davis' church was '''not''' a Missionary Baptist Church as indicated by William Branham but was a "''Holy Ghost church where they worship God in Spirit and not in fleshly denominations''" (See ''Jeffersonville Evening News'', 10 June 1933, 4:7). | According to Douglas Weaver in his book, ''The Healer-Prophet'', '''Roy E. Davis''' was the pastor of the '''First Baptist Pentecostal Church''' in Jeffersonville, Indiana. Roy Davis' church was '''not''' a Missionary Baptist Church as indicated by William Branham but was a "''Holy Ghost church where they worship God in Spirit and not in fleshly denominations''" (See ''Jeffersonville Evening News'', 10 June 1933, 4:7). | ||