The history of the Saskatoon Full Gospel Church has its roots in the outpouring of the Holy Spirit at the turn of the 20th century. Prior to that time, the Holy Spirit had been mostly silent since the Dark Ages. There were scattered reports of unusual phenomena occurring in revival services during the last decade of the 19th century. It was December 31, 1900 at 7 pm that the Holy Spirit was poured out with the evidence of speaking in tongues at a Bible school in Topeka, Kansas. News of this carefully documented case soon spread across the United States. To say the least, this shook up the religious circles of the day. The phenomena began spreading like wildfire and focused on the famous Azuza Street Mission in Los Angeles California.

Pastors, from all over North America, visited and were baptized in the Holy Spirit at the Azuza Street Mission. Pastor William H. Durham of Chicago was one of those who carried the Holy Spirit flame from California to points further north. In 1911, Pastor Durham held a campaign in Winnipeg, Manitoba. A wonderful visitation of God flowed at those meetings. Attending those meetings was Brother Frank Small – one of the original founders of the Apostolic Church of Pentecost of Canada.

O.J. Lovick was a Norwegian, of Lutheran upbringing, who had come to Canada from Minnesota to work for a Christian farmer near Hanley, Saskatchewan. During that time, he was wonderfully saved. He homesteaded near Elrose, where he opened a farm equipment dealership. It wasn’t long before he began doing ministry work of singing and preaching. After marrying, he attended Rochester Bible Training School in Rochester, New York. There he was baptized in the Holy Spirit and was also healed after prayer and anointing from the famed and godly evangelist Smith Wigglesworth. This was O.J. Lovick’s preparation for ministry.

He returned to Saskatchewan and began meetings in various towns southwest of Saskatoon. God honored his call by granting exceptional miracles of healing and salvation to many local people. Lovick felt God’s further call to “establish churches throughout Saskatchewan”, and to “baptize believers in the name of Jesus Christ”.

Prophetic messages and personal experiences with God continued to confirm the Lord’s leading. In obedience to this call of God, Lovick established Apostolic churches in Swift Current, Regina, Moose Jaw, Yorkton (in that order), and then, in March of 1924, meetings were held in Saskatoon.

Old Knox Presbyterian Church, located at the south end of 2nd Avenue next to the river, was rented for meetings. The church seated twelve hundred people. It was packed nightly to hear Lovick’s powerful messages of salvation and divine healing. The altar area of the church was decorated with crutches, trusses and other items that were left behind as a result of the many healings.

Soon after meetings were begun in Saskatoon, Rev. Frank G. Small, came for a series of meetings. Crowds continued to come and God blessed mightily. As the meetings progressed, all of Saskatoon and the surrounding country were moved by the undeniable power of God to which countless miracles of healing bore testimony. The Lovicks stayed in Saskatoon for six months, and then moved on to Alberta and finally Los Angeles, California. Our church in Saskatoon was born.

Pastor Joe Erickson was called from Yorkton to advance the work in Saskatoon in September of 1924. He served as pastor for three years in which the rented facility was purchased and renamed the Old Knox Apostolic Church.

The Lord has blessed the church with spiritual growth under Rev. Terry Noël. In August 1999 the church name was changed to “Saskatoon Full Gospel Church”. Now,  the Sasktoon Full Gospel Church is working not only in the city of Saskatoon but actively in our Provinces and Nations.