1. PAWI was started in 1910 on the island of Montserrat.
2. PAWI is the largest Pentecostal church organization in the Caribbean.
3. PAWI is on 16 islands in the Caribbean, and in Brazil, Venezuela, St. Martin and Queens, NY, and has approximately 45,000 members and adherents.
4. PAWI’s highest decision-making body is the General Conference which is held biennially and every church with 50 members or more can send their pastor and one delegate.
5. The West Indies School of Theology (WIST), whose main campus is in Trinidad, has extension sites in Montserrat, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Grenada, Barbados, Antigua, and Tobago, and is the official training institution of PAWI.
6. Over 90% of PAWI ministers were trained at WIST.
7. PAWI’s first missionary to Africa was Rev. Winston Broomes, who was sent to Zambia. PAWI continues to send missionaries to South America, Asia, Kenya and South Africa.
8. PAWI has compiled its first one hundred-year history volume and it is entitled: “ABLAZE: The History of the Pentecostal Assemblies of the West Indies.”
9. PAWI has an active church ministries department catering for children, youth, women and men in our churches and denominations.
10. PAWI’s distinctives are:
- Baptism in the Holy Spirit evidenced by speaking in tongues.
- Divine Healing.
- Holy Living.
- Evangelistic Fervour.
- Prayer and Fasting.
- Missionary Endeavours.