The International Fellowship of Ministries, (originally know as Ministerial Fellowship of the USA and the Apostolic Congress) came into being under the leadership of John G. Lake shortly before World War I, while Lake was in England. It was relocated to Spokane, Washington, USA, not long afterward. Lake’s vision was for a supernaturally empowered Church that revealed a Living Christ. He believed that only such a Church could take the gospel to the nations.