Greetings, I'm Raffi

[Raffi]

Thank you for accepting my request. I am so stoked to join this forum. I have been looking for a social forum that is specifically Apostolic for many weeks now, so I am very excited to finally get on one.
I am 44, of Apostolic roots. I am a committed Apostolic, having come into the Faith and Baptized in Jesus name at age 16. I was saved in a UPCI congregation, later joined the ALJC. Eventually I got involved with the End-Time Message Ministry, started by William Branham, but left that movement and got involved for a time with Bill Brittin's House of Prayer.

In the most recent years, i joined the Pentecostal Church of Zion, Inc, a 7th Day Apostolic Pentecostal denomination, and I became deeply influenced by Restorationist teaching. Then I joined up with the Covenant Apostolic Congregations, Int'l, another 7th Day Apostolic group who teaches Restoration.

Today, I am part of what is called the Set-Apart Apostolic Movement, which is 7th Day, Sacred Name, and Hebrew-Root oriented.

I live in Kissimmee, Florida.

My current congregation right now is very small, and so I am looking to reach out to fellow Apostolic brethren beyond my own little circle. So, needless to say, I am very excited.

[Amanah]

Welcome to AFF, glad to have you.

[Raffi]

Thank you, Amanah. BTW, I totally like your name.

[Carl]

Welcome! You could certainly get alot of discussion here on the sacred name and Hebrew roots subject.

[Raffi]

Cool, but really, I just like to have friendly hangouts with other AP brothers and sisters. But, i don't mind friendly questions and answers.
Thank you.

[MawMaw]

Welcome Raffi! :wave
God bless you!

[Raffi]

Thank you everyone for welcoming me. I hope to get to meet each of you online.

[Praxeas]

:welcome2

[Esaias]

Thank you for accepting my request. I am so stoked to join this forum. I have been looking for a social forum that is specifically Apostolic for many weeks now, so I am very excited to finally get on one.
I am 44, of Apostolic roots. I am a committed Apostolic, having come into the Faith and Baptized in Jesus name at age 16. I was saved in a UPCI congregation, later joined the ALJC. Eventually I got involved with the End-Time Message Ministry, started by William Branham, but left that movement and got involved for a time with Bill Brittin's House of Prayer.

In the most recent years, i joined the Pentecostal Church of Zion, Inc, a 7th Day Apostolic Pentecostal denomination, and I became deeply influenced by Restorationist teaching. Then I joined up with the Covenant Apostolic Congregations, Int'l, another 7th Day Apostolic group who teaches Restoration.

Today, I am part of what is called the Set-Apart Apostolic Movement, which is 7th Day, Sacred Name, and Hebrew-Root oriented.

I live in Kissimmee, Florida.

My current congregation right now is very small, and so I am looking to reach out to fellow Apostolic brethren beyond my own little circle. So, needless to say, I am very excited.

Hi! Are you still with CACI? By the way, some of the folks here are in Florida. They just haven't yet prayed through to Texas, is all. :D

[FlamingZword]

Welcome in the name of Yeshua

[Raffi]

I am not with CACI right now. I learned a lot from that organization and I think it is great. But for me, CACI was really only a spring board into where I have gone today.
As it is right now, I am affiliating with an Apostolic house fellowship movement called the Set-Apart Apostolic Assemblies of Zion. It is mostly centered in Florida, though. Like CACI it teaches a Sabbath-keeping form of AP. But unlike CACI they also teach Sacred Names and Hebrew Roots stuff. I know that ruffles a lot of feathers. But I have really learned a lot from this group, probably more than I have ever learned anywhere else I've been.

[Amanah]

Raffi, does your fellowship have a website, how many cities in Florida are in your fellowship?

[Raffi]

I only know my own group in Kissimmee best. This fellowship is small, but I don't really know how many local assemblies there are in all, and I am not aware of any websites. But I can look into that. This is a non-denominational fellowship, and membership is by voluntary association, that much I know.

I have never been to another assembly in another city, but we did get a visit from some fellows that I was told was from another assembly in the fellowship.

[votivesoul]

HI, Raffi

Welcome to the forum. :)

[Raffi]

To Amanah,
apparently there are about seven assemblies considered active, in Orlando, Kissimmee, Davenport, Fort Walton, Destin (all in Florida), and in Birmingham and Northport in Alabama, with additional Bible-study groups in Clearwater, FL., Mobile, AL., and Atlanta, GA. Also, there is a foreign outreach in Embu, Kenya. A lot of local elders run their own online ministries through email and facebook, but I have not been able to locate anyone who knows of a website representing this particular ministry. I know that the Covenant Apostolic Congregations, Int'l (CACI) has a website, and most of the elders of this fellowship came from the CACI.

[Amanah]

To Amanah,
apparently there are about seven assemblies considered active, in Orlando, Kissimmee, Davenport, Fort Walton, Destin (all in Florida), and in Birmingham and Northport in Alabama, with additional Bible-study groups in Clearwater, FL., Mobile, AL., and Atlanta, GA. Also, there is a foreign outreach in Embu, Kenya. A lot of local elders run their own online ministries through email and facebook, but I have not been able to locate anyone who knows of a website representing this particular ministry. I know that the Covenant Apostolic Congregations, Int'l (CACI) has a website, and most of the elders of this fellowship came from the CACI.

Thank you for the info, I live in Sebastian and attend a UPCI church there, which is a daughter work of FPC Palm Bay.

Thought it would be interesting to visit a house church and see what it is like, but don't trouble yourself further, none of the assemblies are close to me.

[KeptByTheWord]

Welcome Raffi!!! :welcome. Hope you have made it through the hurricane safely.

[Raffi]

Yes, we did. Thank you.