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THE TRUTH
ABOUT EVANGELIST A. A. ALLEN
by John S. Torell
Toward the end of 2001,
I ended up on the e-mail list of Paul Cunningham. After reading his material for a while, I contacted him and we started communicating
with one another. Early in 2002, my wife and I drove to the city
of Vacaville in California, where we met in a restaurant and had dinner with
Paul and his wife Sharon. Later we went to their motel suite, and spent
a few hours talking, followed by attending a public church meeting where
Paul was speaking.
Paul is about 10 years
older than me, and we found out that our ministries had been running parallel
in Sweden during the years 1970-82. Many of the pastors and
leaders who I had worked with, and knew well, had also worked with Paul
and his wife. After having talked with Paul and read some of
his publications, there is no doubt in my mind that this man is a man of God
and sincere in his ministry. When he pointed out his involvement
with A. A. Allen, I was shocked, since I had bought into the lies about
Allen. Since my integrity is most important to me, I want to set
the record straight and we are posting this account written by Paul
Cunningham. I have asked God to forgive me for my ignorance in
this matter, whereby I have smeared the name of one of God's anointed servants,
A. A. Allen, whom I never met in person. My prayer is that any one of
you who I have offended in this matter can also forgive me.
THE PASSING OF PAUL J. CUNNINGHAM
Reported by John S. Torell
Early in the month of January
2010, I was contacted by Robert Woeger, who has been working with Paul Cunningham
for the last four years to preserve the legacy of evangelist A. A. Allen. Adam
told me that Paul passed away on December 25, 2009, as he was walking in a
parking lot and suddenly had a massive heart attack.
Paul J. Cunningham was born
February 11, 1937, to Donald and Dortha Cunningham. The family was Jewish and
the Cunningham name was not the original family name. Paul was proud of the fact
that he was Jewish and had accepted the Messiah, Jesus Christ, which God had
sent to the Jewish people some 2,000 years ago.
He was preceded in death by his
wife Sharon, one brother, one sister and both parents but is survived by
recently married wife Maria Cunningham of the Philippines and three
stepdaughters from his late wife Sharon Kay and seven grand children, all of
Norman, Oklahoma.
When I responded back to Adam’s
e-mail and asked him for some more details, he told me that Paul’s wife Sharon
had died in October 2007 after a long period of illness. All friends of the
Cunningham’s remember the many times prayer requests came to pray for the
healing of Sharon, and for a while it looked like she was getting better and
able to live a normal life again, but in October 2007, her time of labor on this
earth came to an end as God took her home.
It was a hard blow for Paul,
who decided to leave the United States and move to the Philippines to continue
his life work as an evangelist/teacher and prophet. About a year after the death
of Sharon, Paul met Maria, a woman from the Philippines and married her. He
moved back to the U.S. in 2009 and lived in Norman, Oklahoma with his new wife
where they were working on getting her residence permit in the United
States, but before this work was finished, Paul’s time on this earth was up and
he went to be with the Lord.
In 2007, before the passing of
Sharon Cunningham, Paul had worked to verify his statement with a county
government in order to make sure that the records of A. A. Allen were not to be
lost for future generations. Adam Woeger has sent me these records and it is
fitting that we should post these county records on our website where we had
posted a previous write up by Paul on A. A. Allen.
Some of the recorded documents
are the same as they were previously posted but the difference is the recording
information. Here are the documents recorded by Paul Cunningham in El Paso
County in the State of Colorado:
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