Our History:
The First Pentecostal Church was founded as the result of a miraculous meeting between Mother Geneva Crudup, her family and a small prayer band of six women in February of 1943. While following the leading of the Lord, Pastor Geneva and Deacon Sylvester Crudup (along with their three children) stopped at a small store to purchase milk or their baby. It was at this time they encountered six women who were praying for the Lord to send them a leader. Upon sharing with them the leading of the Lord, Pastor Crudup was made the leader of the prayer band. From these humble begins the First Pentecostal Church family was born.
First Pentecostal Church ushered home her Founder - Pastor Crudup - in 1994;
one year after she established the Crudup Community Center (CCC). Pastor Crudup
fulfilled her mission. The small prayer band of six women she found praying for
a leader grew to an fully established church, which was left again praying in
like manner. That prayer was answered June 1996 in Baltimore Maryland, when
Elder Paul L. Brown was appointed the pastor of First
Pentecostal Church.