Tom Fred Tenney, a longtime leader in the United Pentecostal Church International who is credited with increasing the denomination’s missionary work and doling out pithy one-liners on how to live right on social media, died peacefully on Friday. He was 84. “Tom Fred Tenney, friend to all and longtime UPCI minister, statesman, leader, executive, and General Board member, passed from this life on June 1, 2018. Please keep the Tenney family and especially Sister Thetus Tenney in prayer as
we mourn the loss of this great man of God,” the organization announced. In a statement to the Associated Press on Saturday, UPCI’s general superintendent, David K. Bernard, called Tenney an innovator in the mission field. “He was an innovator. He introduced many new plans and ideas, one being the concept of partners in missions, whereby individual churches would sponsor missionaries around the world. READ MORE