Gordon Mallory

Gordon Mallory was born on August 14, 1944, in Sudbury, Ontario. Mallory’s family has deep roots in the Pentecostal movement in Canada. R. E. Sternall, Mallory’s grandfather, was one of seven signing founders of the Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada, and Dr. Robert Berg, Mallory’s first cousin, currently serves as professor of New Testament at Evangel University in Springfield, Missouri, an Assemblies of God educational institution. More than thirty family members have been ordained with the Assemblies of God.

When Mallory was a boy, his immediate family encountered the Oneness message. At age nine, he was baptized in Jesus’ name and filled with the Holy Ghost in Picton, Ontario, under the ministry of Ruby Keyes Klemin, a 2010 Order of the Faith inductee. Three weeks later, he felt the call to preach. Howard Goss, the first general superintendent of the United Pentecostal Church and a 2005 Order of the Faith inductee, lived in the area with his wife Ethel following their retirement, and Mallory remembers visiting their home to go horseback riding. Several times, Howard Goss laid his hand on the young man’s head and prayed that God’s will would be done in his life.

Despite these Oneness influences, Mallory eventually enrolled at Eastern Pentecostal Bible College in Peterborough, Ontario, a Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada school where one of his uncles was chairman of the board. As a student, he endured a great spiritual struggle over the nature of the Godhead. In response, God miraculously directed him on an unplanned visit to a UPC conference in Newark, Ohio. After the conference, Mallory stayed with Pastor Howard Dyer and received a personal revelation of the Oneness of God and the Apostolic message.

Mallory held his first revival in Portland, Oregon, in 1964, and received his local license with the United Pentecostal Church in the old Northwestern District under Superintendent, Orion Gleason. He married Afton Calder in September 1965. He was ordained in Black Lake, Washington in 1967 with General Superintendent A. T. Morgan (a 2004 Order of the Faith inductee) officiating.

In 1968, the Mallorys were appointed to serve as missionaries to the Philippines. They arrived in October 1969 with their two sons, two-year-old Jeff and one-year-old Gerry. Their third son, Cary, was born in Manila in 1972.

There were fifteen churches on three islands when the Mallorys arrived, and most were in remote locations. There was no church in Manila, the capital city, so in 1971 they established a new congregation in a former nightclub with thirty-nine students recruited from the handful of Filipino churches. That group turned out to include a future general superintendent, assistant superintendent, general secretary, two national youth presidents, and thirty pastors or pastors’ wives. Fifty new church plants eventually sprang from that original metro Manila congregation. Manila is now a district within the United Pentecostal Church of the Philippines with five sections and approximately three hundred churches.

In 1982, God gave Mallory a vision of a million-soul revival in the Philippines. He shared this prophetic vision while preaching at that year’s annual UPCI General Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah. Today, that vision has become reality, as the UPC of the Philippines has an estimated 1.6 million constituents. Due to the ongoing Filipino diaspora, Filipino believers have spread across the globe, strengthening churches around the world and taking the Apostolic message into previously unreached areas.

In 2001, Mallory led a first of its kind nationwide outreach effort that mobilized thirty-six teams comprised of fifteen hundred workers. The teams coordinated with local pastors and churches to host a weekend of evangelistic meetings with a combined attendance of approximately one million. More than one hundred thousand people received the Holy Spirit during those events, and nearly four thousand miracles were documented. Many new churches were launched from that effort. 

Mallory served the UPC of the Philippines in various capacities over the years, including nationwide outreach director and general superintendent. Under his leadership, the UPC of the Philippines became the fastest growing church in the islands. He also assisted in establishing five Bible schools that were responsible for sending out hundreds of workers. In 2024, the Gordon Mallory Theological School opened in Bacolod City. Students from the school have already established three churches and baptized more than one hundred people in Jesus’ name.

Over the years, Mallory also preached and ministered extensively in North America. He was invited to preach three UPCI General Conferences, as well as camp meetings and other events in forty districts. He served as the pastor of five churches, including congregations in New Westminster and Surrey, British Columbia; Crown Point, Indiana; Puyallup, Washington; and on the island of Maui, Hawaii. He served as dean of missions and as vice president of Jackson College of Ministries in Jackson, Mississippi. He led three international missions trips during his tenure, including one to El Salvador where current UPCI Global Missions Secretary Scotty Slaydon received a call to overseas evangelism.

Mallory served under former North American Missions Director Jack Cunningham on the Vision 2000 team for five years, and with Multicultural Ministries. The couple has written three books: an autobiography titled A Million Hands, The Name of the One True God, and Witness Conscious, which addresses evangelism and church growth.

The Mallorys currently serve with Pastor Jerron Carney at Woodlawn Church in Columbia, Mississippi.