Saturday Pentecostals (self-name – Sabbath Evangelical Christians Baptized with the Holy Spirit) Is a Protestant Pentecostal denomination that emerged in the 1920s and 1930s in Western Ukraine, one of the Sabbath-keeping Pentecostal churches. During these years, missionaries of the of God (Cleveland, Tennessee), including the missionaries of the American Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee), operated in the city of Kremenets, Ternopil region (then the territory of Poland), edited by D. Gerasevich, a magazine Builder of the Church of God… It was among those baptized by this mission that the Sabbath Pentecostals appeared, the theology of which generally corresponded to the teaching of the Church, in particular, the teaching of the three blessings – conversion, sanctification and baptism in the Spirit (this already distinguishes them from most Pentecostals in the countries of the former USSR, who recognize the need for two ). Their most characteristic feature was the observance of the Sabbath as the Lord’s day, instead of Sunday, in which they parted with the American mission.
The Sabbath is Union of Churches of Evangelical Subbotnik Christians Baptized with the Holy Spiritoperating in Ukraine (mainly in the Transcarpathian region), but also includes a few groups in the Baltic States and Russia (mainly in the Krasnodar Territory).
