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Message: Emoticon Listing HTML Help	[quote]I would be interested if anybody could cast light on the beginnings of the Assemblies of God/Pentecostal Chapel on Hands Road. Has a booklet ever been written on this subject.? I went there regularly in the 60’s before I went off to College. The Pastor at the time was Mr Walter Hancock, who before retirement had a hardware shop in Red Lion Square. The Youth Leader was Don Bates who was “the man from the Pru” and the Sunday School Superintendent was Roland Meakin who lived in Ray Street. I understand the Chapel was one of the very first in the modern “Pentecostal” movement and dated from before the first World War. I heard it started as a “break-away” from one of the Methodist Chapels in town. The doctrinal argument was whether “miracles” were things that happened only in biblical times or could still happen today.(Is this story true?) The key memories I have which I would also like comments on are: • Youth Club on a Tuesday Night • The Chapel was part of a network of similar Churches, others being at Alfreton, South Normanton, Bonsall, South Wingfield and Boyer Street Derby (now closed). • Anniversary Day, when a huge stepped platform was erected at the front of the church. The older girls hated it as they claimed men in the congregation could see up their frocks. Wesley Lees [/quote]
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Leesw

Hands Road Pentecostal Church
replied on: 12/22/2004 8:44:59 PM

I would be interested if anybody could cast light on the beginnings of the Assemblies of God/Pentecostal Chapel on Hands Road. Has a booklet ever been written on this subject.?

I went there regularly in the 60’s before I went off to College. The Pastor at the time was Mr Walter Hancock, who before retirement had a hardware shop in Red Lion Square. The Youth Leader was Don Bates who was “the man from the Pru” and the Sunday School Superintendent was Roland Meakin who lived in Ray Street.

I understand the Chapel was one of the very first in the modern “Pentecostal” movement and dated from before the first World War. I heard it started as a “break-away” from one of the Methodist Chapels in town. The doctrinal argument was whether “miracles” were things that happened only in biblical times or could still happen today.(Is this story true?)

The key memories I have which I would also like comments on are:

• Youth Club on a Tuesday Night
• The Chapel was part of a network of similar Churches, others being at Alfreton, South Normanton, Bonsall, South Wingfield and Boyer Street Derby (now closed).
• Anniversary Day, when a huge stepped platform was erected at the front of the church. The older girls hated it as they claimed men in the congregation could see up their frocks.

Wesley Lees

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