Pentecostalism has become a major religious force in Honduras. Pentecostalism did not arrive in Honduras until the years leading up to the Second World War. The earliest known Pentecostal missionary in Honduras was a Canadian man, Frederick Mebius, who crossed the border from El Salvador in 1931. He organized indigenous churches that came into contact with the Assemblies of God in the mid-1930s. In 1944 Fred and Lucille Litton established the first Church of God (Cleveland, TN) in the Bay Islands. Similarly, Josué and Vanette Rubio established the first Pentecostal Ch…