Nathaniel Urshan
Nathaniel Urshan was a major United Pentecostal Church International minister, evangelist, and later General Superintendent whose early career intersected directly with William Branham through Raymond "Chaplain Ray" Hoekstra, Calvary Tabernacle, the Little David Walker revival circuit, and the Urshan-Branham Healing Campaign; his continued sponsorship of Branham meetings as late as 1964 shows that Branham's influence remained connected to important UPCI leadership circles long after Branham's later stage persona attempted to distance itself from organized Pentecostalism, making Urshan an important bridge between Oneness Pentecostal structures, Branham's healing-revival celebrity, and later UPCI institutional history.
United Pentecostal Church
William Branham's early ministry was far more connected to Oneness Pentecostal and United Pentecostal networks than his later Life Story accounts admitted, as he had already been ordained in Roy E. Davis's Pentecostal Baptist Church of God, appears to have functioned as a bishop while Davis was imprisoned, interacted with leaders such as Frank Curts, G. B. Rowe, Raymond Hoekstra, Robert Daugherty, A. E. Humbard, and W. E. Kidson, and held key revivals in churches tied to the Pentecostal Assemblies of Jesus Christ, Pentecostal Church Incorporated, and the newly formed United Pentecostal Church; this history shows that Branham's later claim of accidentally discovering Pentecostalism in Mishawaka was a reshaped stage narrative that erased his deeper Pentecostal, publishing, revival, and organizational connections while obscuring the influence he had on UPC-related ministers and the racial and doctrinal controversies surrounding those networks.
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