Occupation Evangelist Role Evangelist | Name Daniel Berg Organizations founded Assembleias de Deus | |
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Born April 19, 1884 ( 1884-04-19 ) Vargon, Sweden Died May 27, 1963, Stockholm, Sweden Children David Berg, Debora Berg, Lisbeth Berg | ||
Daniel Berg was a Swedish Pentecostal evangelist missionary who served in the early twentieth century in the Amazon and Northeast Brazil. Together with Gunnar Vingren, started the movement that gave rise to the name Assemblies of God in Brazil with 22.5 million members in the country, the largest evangelical church in the country.
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History
Daniel Berg was born in Vargon, Sweden. Daniel was the son of Gustav Verner Hogberg and Fredrika Hogberg. He learned the trade of blacksmith refiner, became converted and was baptized in water in 1899. Berg later went to the United States on March 5, 1902 (age 18), arriving in Boston on March 25. On a visit to Sweden learned about the Pentecostal movement by a friend and return to the United States (1909) involves the Pentecostal experience. In this year, at a conference in Chicago, he met pastor Gunnar Vingren.
Daniel Berg arrived in Belem, capital of Para, on November 19, 1910, along with his friend and fellow missionary Gunnar Vingren and started spreading Pentecostal with proselytizing in Bethlehem Baptist Church in Brazil, studied Portuguese, was employed as a boilermaker Company and smelter in Port of Para
Personal life
In the early 1920s visited Sweden and married Sara in July. The following year the couple came to Brazil in 1927 and moved to Sao Paulo.