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Welcome in the Mighty Name of Y'shuah Jesus our Messieh & Christ to the Faith Refuge Assembly Open Door Messienic Ministries web pages !! I hope you enjoy visiting our web site. There are several interesting features which I think will bless you. Please contact us if you desire prayer, or have any questions. God Bless you in Jesus' incomparable and mighty name.

District Elder James H. Simmons III, District Elder of Central Pennsylvania, is currently Pastor of Faith Refuge Assembly-Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and co-founder of Antioch Apostolic Church-Lancaster, Pennsylvania Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ of the Apostolic Faith, Inc.

District Elder James H. Simmons, III was rescued from a college campus in Harrisburg by Elder Dorsey Meredith and on a cold February 1976 afternoon in the basement of the New Day Way of the Cross Church he was baptized in the Name of Jesus Christ. God filled him with the Holy Ghost by the evidence of speaking in tongues upon coming up from the waters of baptism. As he continued to study under Pastor Meredith's teaching, Brother Simmons was ordained a Deacon and later appointed a Minister.

In 1984, Minister Simmons came to Faith Refuge Assembly of our Lord Jesus Christ, being a minister and immediately became an active Sunday School Teacher, brotherhood President, Prison Minister and worked closely with many other auxiliaries.

Minister Simmons was united in Holy Matrimony to Sister Chyrel D. Norwood on April 27, 1985. He that findeth a wife findeth a good thing. Ten years later on February 3, 1995 the Lord blessed this union with a son named Jonathan-Michael James Simmons.

While faithfully serving under the Late Elder Herman Middleton in the year 1987, he was appointed Junior Pastor of the outreach church in York, PA. (which is still in existence today). Minister Simmons was ordained an Elder at the 1991 International Convocation in South Carolina. In 1992, he was installed as Pastor of Faith Refuge Assembly of Our Lord Jesus Christ, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

Since becoming a Pastor, Elder Simmons co-started an outreach ministry in Lancaster, PA. As a result of combined efforts, Antioch Apostolic Assembly of Our Lord Jesus Christ was born in 1996. In 1997, Elder Simmons was appointed District Elder by Bishop Alexander Stokes and was encouraged to "Live clean, Pay your tithes and preach the Gospel, son!"

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