Welcome to the Apostolic Ministerial Hall of Fame! This electrifying institution was created for the purpose of bestowing honor on ministerial excellence, and especially on those who have spent their lives laboring in the Word and in Doctrine. The Ministerial Hall of Fame is dedicated exclusively to the legendary careers of Apostolic preachers as we honor their lifetime achievements, and contributions for spreading the Apostolic faith in a global effort to reach lost humanity with the positive message of Jesus Christ.

The Ministerial Hall of Fame, operates under the auspices of the Apostolic Archives International, and is governed by the Ethics Committee of the (AAI). 

Requirments for induction into the Ministerial Hall of Fame are based on those with at least fifty (50) years of ministerial excellence.The Hall of Fame also considers ministers that are deceased, based on their life-time of ministerial service. 

Each year the Ethics Committee nominates an indisclosed number of ministers, eligable for induction into the Hall of Fame. After deliberations, the committee then selects seven ministers to be inducted into the Ministerial Hall of Fame. 

Verbal Winston Bean

1933 ~ 1977

Reverend Verbal W. Bean was born on April 15, 1933 in Duetts Eddie, Louisiana, to Alexander (Alex) and Bernice Bean. He has two brothers, Hobert and Michael, and two sisters, Nylatis and Novelle. The Bean family moved to Orange, Texas in 1947. Verbal attended and graduated from Orange High School. His father (Alex) died in 1948.  He first sought the Lord under the ministry of H.B. Morgan. At the age of nine, he received the baptism of the Holy Ghost. As a teenage boy living with his family in Orange, Texas, he was under the ministry of J.H. Stanton. On Sunday afternoons Verbal could be found in the sanctuary of the prayer room at the old "Gospel Lighthouse" on Border Street, seeking the face of God for his life.

Verbal began preaching around the age of fifteen. In 1951, at the age of seventeen he went to Houston, Texas with his mother to start a work for the Lord. Sister Bean pioneered the Greens Bayou Church, and Verbal pioneered the South Houston Church. He commanded great respect from the saints and nearby pastors.

As an Evangelist, Brother Bean met the challenge of needy pastors and churches. Some assemblies who had never enjoyed successful revivals began to see conversions numbering into the scores, and on several occasions, one hundred or more were baptized in Jesus' name, and filled with the Holy Ghost. When his mother's health failed her, Verbal was called upon to assume the pastorate of the Greens Bayou church. Under his powerful ministry the church grew and prospered. In 1962 Verbal and Nita Kay Shoemake were united in holy matrimony. To this union three children were born.

Verbal Bean was a leader among his peers. The Holy Ghost skillfully used him in conferences and camp meetings. He was truly a prophet! He had the gift of discernment, and fully operated in the gift of prophecy. His interest in the welfare of other brethren was well known. As the result of his affection for young ministers who wanted to study to show themselves approved unto God as a workman who needeth not to be ashamed...Brother Bean established the Apostolic Ministers Training Institute.  

Verbal Bean's ministry will always be remembered as emphasizing the Christians seperation from the world; healing for the body; and the manifestation and works of the Holy Ghost. He had a hunger for the salvation of the lost, and the restoration of the backslider. In 1977, Verbal Bean was tragically killed in an automobile accident. To those who knew him, knew that he was indeed one of a kind. As Elder Bill Garrett once said of him, "Brother Bean was truly a man to ride the river with." Verbal W. Bean was inducted into the Apostolic Ministerial Hall of Fame in 1999. Audio recordings of Brother Bean are available in our audio library.

Robert Cecil Cavaness
1920 ~ 1988

Reverend Robert Cecil Cavaness was born on July 30, 1920 in "Sod-town" a small suburb of Bloomington, Indiana. He was the youngest child born in the Cavaness family. Robert was raised in "Pigeon Hill" another small suburb of Bloomington. To describe Pigeon Hill you would have to talk to someone who actually lived there. The entire geographical area was only about five blocks wide, and three blocks deep. It was a poor section of town and very tough to say the least. Pigeon Hill was a place where the "less fortunate" sometimes had to live. In fact, it was so bad that when the policemen walked their "beat" they would go two- by-two for self protection. Many of the houses where people lived were considered to be nothing more than "shacks". In many instances they would simply lay linoleum down on top of the dirt floor just to keep them off the ground.

Robert was raised in a small "shot-gun" house in this not-so-prestigious neighborhood. In his own words, he said, "I was raised poor." He often referred to it as a "dung-hill" unfit for humanity. Robert recalled, "I was so poor growing up that I took only one bath per week. For if you had to carry water, and heat it too! and put it into a #2 wash tub, you wouldn't take but one bath a week either." His mother and father were divorced when he was very young. His father died early in life. Robert described his early life as such, "It was like living in a "hell-hole. Bootlegging and drunkenness was just a way of life." Most of his youth was spent in and around "Pigeon Hill."

Robert Cavaness was the first in his family to say yes to God. At the tender age of (16) he entered into the church. By invitation he began to attend the Pentecostal Church in loomington, Indiana, pastored by O.T. Frame. After hearing the Apostolic faith message of Acts 2:38, he pursued after the new birth experience. On December 2, 1936, Robert received the baptism of the Holy Ghost. This became the turning point in his life, as he would leave behind old friends and acquaintances to serve the Lord in the beauty of holiness. Robert truly became the "Pride of Pigeon Hill."

Robert and Muriel Essex were united in holy matramony, and to this union were born 3 children.

Brother Cavaness soon developed a deep love for the Word of God, and learned the significance of a prayer life. These were some of the outstanding qualities that were instilled in him from his pastor, Brother Frame. He endured much persecution as a young Christian. However, this helped to develope good charisteristics in him, and tempered him for the job that God would eventually call him to do. In his formative years as a Christian, Robert developed a love for the house of God. He began to spend more time at church than anywhere else. The more that he studied the Bible and had his eyes opened to the things of God, the more that he desired to know. It wasn't long until he began to feel a drawing within his inner most being as God began to deal with him about the ministry.

Elder Cavaness became a "prolific" Bible scholar. He was given to study, and searched the scriptures intently. Rightly dividing the Word of God became his specialty. His life and ministry was like a nail in a sure place. His peers looked to him for guidance and leadership. He became an anchor to those troubled by lifes storms. He came too late to know Bishop Haywood, but was blessed enough to have developed a close relationship with two of Haywood's spiritual sons, namely, the late, Elder R.F. Tobin, and the late Bishop M.E. Golder. Elder Tobin left one of the most proficient impacts on Elder Cavaness' life. He both adored and emulated this "Great" man of God.

Elder Cavaness spent time in two organizations. Namely, the United Pentecostal Church International, and the Apostolic Ministers Fellowship. However, in his early years of ministry as a minister, he preached most frequently for the predominantly black "Pentecostal Assemblies of the World." On October 12, 1945, Elder Cavaness began his tenure as pastor of Apostolic Tabernacle, located at 905 South Pike Street in Shelbyville, Indiana. On April 7, 1988, after nearly 43 years of serving his generation, Elder Cavaness fell on sleep. Reverend R.C. Cavaness was inducted into the Apostolic Ministerial Hall of Fame in 1999. Audio and video recordings of Elder Cavaness are available in our audio - video libraries.

Glenn A. Cook
1867 ~ 1948

Reverend Glenn A. Cook was born in 1867. Originally a Baptist minister from Indianapolis, Indiana, he worked for a daily newspaper in Los Angeles, California. At the onset of the Pentecostal revival at Azusa Street in 1906, Cook resigned his position with the newspaper to work full-time with William J. Seymour. During this time, Brother Cook handled the finances, and correspondence at the Azusa Mission, and began assisting in the publication of the Apostolic Faith Newspaper.

During early 1907, he brought the message of Pentecost to Indianapolis, Indiana, which quickly became an epicenter for the new movement. He also held highly successful campaigns in Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Missouri. In April of 1914, in Belvedere, California, Glenn Cook and Frank Ewart re-baptized each other in the name of Jesus.

That same year, Brother Cook traveled throughout the Midwest and South, proclaiming the Jesus' name message. Others re-baptized in Jesus' name by Glenn Cook include G.T. Haywood, who later became the first presiding bishop over the Pentecostal Assemblies of the World. Brother Cook later worked for many years with Frank Ewart in the Los Angeles vacinity. In 1948 Brother Cook passed away, leaving an unforgettable legacy to Oneness people world-wide. Reverend Glenn A. Cook was inducted into the Apostolic Ministerial Hall of Fame in 1999.