[1] The earliest historians of the Apostolic Church date its beginnings to 1911, when three groups of people in three locations in the village of Penygroes received the Pentecostal baptism in the Holy Spirit.

[3] While ministers were ordained as apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, elders or teachers all were involved in prayer and deliberation together in presbyteries at local, sectional and national levels.

The following year the Burning Bush Pentecostal Congregation in Glasgow came into cooperation with the Apostolic Church.

[6] In the same year, a group using the name "Apostolic Church" in Hereford also came into cooperation with the ACW.

Christ is seen to express his headship through the ministries of apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, elders and teachers.