![]() ![]() In 1956, he was the founding pastor of Bethel Assembly of God Church in Lake Worth, Florida. In 1949, he became music director at Bethel Temple in Fort Worth, Texas. In the early 1940s, he served as associate pastor at Full Gospel Tabernacle in Bakersfield, California. He later became music director at Faith Tabernacle in Oklahoma City, then became pastor of Trinity Assembly of God in Orange, California. Stanphill began preaching when he was 22., first in a summer traveling ministry with Christian Ambassadors of the Assemblies of God, then becoming director of youth and music at a church in Breckenridge, Texas. On April 28, 1939, the Southern Missouri District Council of the Assemblies of God ordained Stanphill to the gospel ministry. He was called to preach soon after graduating Chillicothe (Missouri) Junior College at age 22. He was saved when he was 12, and he graduated high school in 1932. He and his family spent most of his younger years in Coffeyville, Kansas. Stanphill's parents were Andrew Crittenton Stanphill and Maggie Flora Engler Stanphill. Ira Stanphill was born in Bellview, New Mexico. ![]()
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