The First Apostolic Church began in 1937 in a home located diagonally across the street from its later Jackman Road site.  Leo and Helen Carver were the founding pastors.  Over the years it was known as "Apostolic Tabernacle" and "United Pentecostal Church."

     Pastor Carver was a minister in the Four-Square Gospel Church organization when he received the revelation of Baptism in Jesus' Name.  He readily accepted this truth even though it caused a separation with his former affiliation.  After he presented it to his congregation he took those who would follow and started a new church.  They met in his home for a time until a building on Upton Avenue became available.  Later, the congregation moved to their first  church building on Orchard Avenue.  In 1934 they purchased a church building at 3017 Detroit Avenue previously owned by a Church of Christ group. (Pictured at right)

    The church enjoyed seven years of exciting growth from their beginning.  God's blessings were evident, and the Carvers were loved as capable and enthusiastic leaders.  Sister Carver was especially known for her dynamic and inspiring ministry.  In 1945, however, they left led to leave Ohio and begin a new ministry in California.

     When the Carvers resigned, they called the officials of the Pentecostal Church Incorporated, an early oneness pentecostal organization, and offered the church to them.  Three ministers, N. J. Bibbs, the district superintendent for Indiana PCI, T. J. Miller, an evangelist, and Howard Dyer, a pastor in Newark, Ohio, came to Toledo and accepted the offer for the PCI.

     Some months later, T. J. Miller was installed as the pastor of the church.  During the three years he pastored, church attendance stabilized in the thirties.  Brother Miller helped to liquidate the dept against the church.  In 1948, he left to return to the church he formerly pastored in Muncie, Indiana.

    After a brief pastorate by A. W. Hicks in the summer of 1948, Reverend Marlin Odom came to the church as pastor and remained for five years.  These were difficult years for not only the church in Toledo, but for Pentecostalism as a whole.  The "latter-rain" movement threatened to bring confusion and damage to churches everywhere.  Nevertheless, the church in Toledo stayed intact and even established a record attendance of 79.  In 1952, Brother Clarence Condon became the Sunday School Superintendent, a  position he held until Ron Suter took over in 1990.

     When the Odoms left in early 1953 the pastorate was vacant once again.  On May 18, 1953, Brother Fred Kinzie was installed as pastor.  Before coming to pastor in Toledo, Fred Kinzie and his wife had been traveling with two girls, Pat and Pam McQueen doing evangelistic work throughout the United States and Canada.