Claude Powell

Mr. Powell was Vice-President of our Association in the forties and played an important role in the spreading of the message, particularly in radio broadcasts hosted by him. He was born in Iowa to a pioneer family who emigrated there in the early seventeen hundreds. With his staunch Methodist background, he was well acquainted with Scripture, yet, under the tutelage of men like Professor Edward Odlum, Dr. Pascoe Goard and other such scholars, he soon realized that the Israel Truth was indeed the sure truth of God.

Over the years, he made a study of the application of Christian principles to national economic life and as a broadcaster, endeavoured to encourage his listeners to live up to the Laws of God and to practice what we preach in everyday life.

He actively supported the former Canadian “Social Credit” party, which, at one time, was the theoretically closest approach to practical Christianity of any party in Canadian politics.