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Our Statement of Faith

LEROY JENKINS EVANGELISTIC ASSOC. INC.
P.O. BOX 29929
PHOENIX, AZ 85038


Our Statement of Faith and Mission is to spread the word of God to all who will hear, to pray for the sick and afflicted to be healed and blessed, for the purpose of salvation. We Believe:

• The Bible is the inspired and only infallible and authoritative written Word of God.


• There is one God, eternally existent in three persons; God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit.


• In the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His vicarious and atoning death, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father, in His personal future return to this earth in power and glory.


• In the sanctifying power of the Holy Spirit, by who’s indwelling the Christian is enabled to live a holy and victorious life.


• The only means of being cleansed of sin and receiving the free gift of eternal life is through repentance and faith in the precious shed blood of Jesus Christ and accepting Him as Personal Savior and Lord.

Listen to Rev. Jenkins healing in 1960

The chain of events that led to one of the greatest ministries in the world started on Mother's Day, 1960. Young Leroy Jenkins was renovating his house in Atlanta, where he and his little family lived, when a plate glass window-pane broke, fell, and cut through the bone and flesh of his right arm, severing arteries and leaders. Blood poured out, as he was rushed to the hospital, where he had a near death experience, as he left his body, and saw the doctors working on him to save his life.

"Please, God, save me," he cried silently, and God restored him to his body. The doctors prepared to amputate the helpless arm, held on by only a shred of flesh, but the young business man refused, he did not want to live without his arm.

The doctors stitched the arm back on, put it in a cast, and sent him home, where they told him he would soon die of gangrene poisoning, for all the blood vessels were severed. In agony, with his arm putrefying within the cast, he was taken to a MIRACLE CRUSADE at the Atlanta fairgrounds, where the Reverend A. A. Allen was conducting services, and praying for the sick.

"Young man, tell these people that God will heal you," demanded the Evangelist, putting the microphone to his face. God's going to heal my hand," stammered the weak and frightened young man, and at that moment the tent appeared to split open, and a giant hand appeared.

If that hand would but touch me, I would be healed," he thought, and as he spoke, he was filled with the Holy Ghost, and his dead fingers began to move.

"Look at him, he's using that dead hand," cried the Reverend Allen, "God has healed him and I didn't even pray for him!" His arm was instantly restored, and at that same time he reached forth to touch a lady with a broken wrist, and her wrist was immediately healed. That was the beginning of a great move of God, and since then countless thousands have been healed, delivered and saved through the Reverend Leroy Jenkins' ministry.

Present at the time under that great tent that held 8,000 people, were a number of young preachers who subsequently became prominent in the ministry. Among them were the Reverend Don Stewart from Phoenix, Arizona, the Reverend Franklin Walden from Atlanta, Georgia, the Reverend R. W. Shambaugh, and the late Reverend Nelson Patterson. All were blessed to have been present at such a great miracle.

The Reverend Leroy Jenkins had felt the calling on his life from that moment on, and went on the sawdust trail in the largest gospel tent extant, praying for the sick and afflicted. Thousands flocked to hear the "Man with the Miracle Arm" and his ministry was established. When he held a meeting in Madison Square Garden, it was filled to capacity, and when he called for those on drugs to throw away their drugs and paraphernalia, the stage was covered ankle deep with drugs, needles and pipes, as well as cigarettes.