A. G. Louton

Albert Gordon Louton (August 13, 1902 – November 22, 1985) was a prominent American missionary in the Northern Transvaal region of South Africa.

In about 1919, after his request for funds to finish his schooling was rejected by his father, Louton moved with one of his brothers to Oklahoma, where he worked as a time as a cowboy.

In Detroit, Louton worked in the drycleaning industry, and as a sales executive before founding the Pentecostal Mount Olivet Church in Eastpointe, Michigan in the 1940s.

[5] During the 1950s and 1960s, Louton began to gain recognition within the Finished Work Pentecostal movement in Africa, and by 1965, he had established over 50 churches, which employed 10 full-time Black South African pastors in the Northern Transvaal.

Louton had close relationships with the Coloured and Basuto people around Pietersburg and Potgietersrus, and was known to assist them in a variety of ways, including lending them personal funds.

The Louton family in South Africa ( c. 1961 ) Back row L-R: Lois Joy Louton, Edgar Louton , A. G. Louton, Eugene Grams ; middle row: Barbara Hughes Louton, Louise Rettinger Louton, Evelyn Phyllis Louton Grams; front row: David A. Louton , Rollin G. Grams , Dennis Grams and Darrell Grams.