The Gospel Pioneers organization was incorporated in 1956. Documents reviewed for this project were from 1956 – 1968. This is a timeline – not a full history. That may be a future project.
This project is still in process. Please contact us if you have documents or memories of this organization to share.
Gospel Pioneers
The Florida Gospel Pioneers was incorporated in March of 1956 by five Christian brethren and grew to an advisory board of thirty men with “seven men given the responsibility to carry out the general policies prescribed by the Advisory Board.”
Their theme verse was “There remaineth very much land” – Joshua 13:1.
They helped established assemblies along Florida’s east cost, financed buildings, “furnishing a suitable building in which the evangelist can carry out his work is the primary function of the Florida Gospel Pioneers”. Their fear, (as was common in America at that time), was that the communists would take control and open air preaching would no longer be lawful.