During the great Welsh Revival of 1904 members of the Jeffreys' family in Maesteg were converted to Christ.
Soon afterwards brothers George and Stephen were baptised in the Holy Spirit and began to preach with increasing power and with signs and demonstration of wonders and miracles.
George Jeffreys formed the Elim Evangelistic Band in 1915 in Monaghan Northern Ireland and began to travel as an evangelist all over the UK. From place to place George would preach "Jesus the Saviour, Healer, Baptiser and Coming King" with increasing numbers responding to Christ and new churches being established as a result of his "campaigns".
When he was invited to Cardiff in 1929, George and his team rented the Cory Hall in the City Centre for what was to be two weeks of meetings. The Hall was quickly packed night after night and the meetings continued for 51 nights. When the Cory Hall has other bookings alternative halls and churches were speedily found. Crowds queued in their thousands to get into the meetings and at the end of the 51 days, over 3,000 people had made decisions for Christ and many outstanding healings were reported.
These new believers were born again in a tremendous atmosphere of faith and the Word with an experience of the Holy Spirit and of the miraculous works of Jesus which formed the foundation of the new church - The City Temple. Many of those converted in Cardiff meetings returned to their local churches, but around 1,000 people gathered as the new City Temple congregation in rented halls. Then in 1934 the present City Temple was built on a prime site right opposite Sophia Gardens and on the fringe of the growing city centre. George Jeffreys went immediately from Cardiff to Swansea where he held similarly powerful meetings every night until just before every night until just before Christmas. Again thousands came to Christ and another church - The City Temple, Swansea was planted.
George Jeffreys was one of the most remarkable evangelists Britain has ever produced.
An annointed preacher and communicator with a great gift of faith for the miraculous, he was used by God to build the Elim Pentecostal Churches of the UK and to lead tens of thousands to Christ. His largest campaign was in Birmingham in 1930. The meetings began in a small hall in the city centre but ended months later in the Bingley Halls, the largest halls in the country. Over 10,000 people were converted in the Birmingham campaign and the city was profoundly impacted for Christ.
