Background
Stevens was born in Story County, Iowa.
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In Los Angeles they attended the Angelus Temple, founded by Aimee Semple McPherson.
Career
In 1933 they returned to Washington, Iowa, where William Stevens founded the Christian Tabernacle church, in which young John Stevens taught children"s Bible study and helped his father prepare sermons. John Stevens began preaching on his own in Gladwin, Iowa, in 1935, before his sixteenth birthday, under the auspices of the Four Square Gospel denomination. After his high school graduation in 1937 he also traveled locally and regionally as an evangelist and was ordained in the Assembly of God in September 1937.
Stevens was first married in 1939 and had two daughters by this marriage, which ended in divorce.
Foreign the remainder of his life he was the group"s spiritual leader, expanding it in the United States and into several other countries. Stevens" writings and recordings of his sermons continue to be disseminated by Living Word Publications, a branch of Living Word Fellowship.
