Kensington Temple & its Ministers

Kensington Temple is a Pentecostal Church in the Notting Hill area of London, England. Its former ministers include George Jeffries, Eldin Corsie, Wynne Lewis and Colin Dyer.

The present church building was founded as Horbury Chapel in 1849 and used by the Hornton Street Congregational church in 1849.

George Jeffireys, who birthed the Elim Pentecostal denomination, purchased the building in 1930.

This became the Bible Pattern Church Fellowship, Elim’s flagship church, becoming Kensington Temple Church of the Foursquare Gospel in 1935. George chose the name of the church.

The building reverted to the Elim Church in the early 1960s. The church as it is known today was founded in 1965 by the Elim minister Rev. Eldin Corsie. The congregation grew under Corsie to 600. Under the next minister, Rev. Wynne Lewis the congregation became several .(He later became Elim’s Church General Superintendent .

Since the 1980’s Kensington Temple, nicknamed by its members as ’ KT’ has planted 150 churches across London.

Colin Dye became Senior Minister at KT in 1991. Soon after he experienced a new and powerful anointing on his life as the Lord released revelation gifts of prophecy, words of knowledge and healing. in various missions across the world he began to see signs and miracles accompany his ministry and rejoiced to see dramatic church growth,

He founded the International Bible Institute of London which is one of the nation’s premier centres of training for the ministry.

He is being used by God to build on the successes of the past to take the church forward into the 21st century

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