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==McKeesport: First assembly in Pittsburgh 1876/1908-1913==
The first assembly in the Pittsburgh area was in McKeesport, a southern suburb of Pittsburgh, in 1876. No other details are available for this time period, but it is known that from 1908 to 1913, an assembly was meeting in an upper room in downtown McKeesport, to which [[William Pinches ]] came to preach.
==Homestead Assembly 1913-1933== When several of the saints had moved away or passed away, the remaining believers in 1913 joined with the Homestead Assembly some few miles away. Those in fellowship at the Homestead Assembly at that time included Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Clark and Mr. and Mrs. William McAra. From 1913 to 1933, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Clark held a Sunday School in their home and carried on Bible studies in various homes. Gospel tent meetings were held. Many were saved in these years.
==McKeesport Gospel Hall==
===1933-1937===
After Alexander Wilson started a Sunday School in his home in McKeesport in 1933, the believers involved in that work decided for form an assembly in the area, in fellowship with the Homestead Assembly. An empty storeroom was located and rented at 1301 Soles Street. The saints, twenty in all, met for the first time there in March 11, 1934 to Remember the Lord. The Joseph Clark, William Moore, and Alexander Wilson families were among those.
This first McKeesport Gospel Hall was heated with a pot bellied stove in the middle of its only room. There were no other amenities. But the assembly was vibrant, with 100 children in its Sunday School. Sam Rea and Tom Ferguson were among the early preachers coming to the Hall.
===1938===
In 1938, the building was purchased, then enlarged. The addition was opened with a prayer meeting in February of that year, with about 130 in attendance. The assemblies represented at the prayer meeting were:
* Mansfield Assembly
===1974-2000's=== The McKeesport Gospel Hall assembly purchased a lot at Prescott and Broadway Street in White Oak Borough in 1974. The brethren designed and built the new Hall, and the first service there was in March 1975. The assembly has held Conferences each year since 1949, usually with a few hundred people attending. The About 60 were in the assembly in the early 2000's. ===Commendations===In 1965, the assembly has at McKeesport commended a worker Ernest Moore and his wife Katherine Pinches Moore to ministry in Chileincluding Gospel preaching, literature distribution and Bible teaching. The Moores also had commendation from assemblies in Manchester, CT and others to ministries within Niagara Falls, ON. Katherine is a descendant of the Uforementioned pioneer worker, William Pinches.SThey labored for a few years in Curico, Chile, then moving in 1975 to Osorno in Southern Chile where they planted an assembly in 1979. About 60 were The Moores also held meetings in Rio Negro where another hall was constructed, and meetings in Puerto Montt, etc. In the mid-1980's, the assembly at Osorno had roughly 20 in fellowship, with three Sunday Schools with over a hundred children. Ernest also crossed the early 2000'sAndes mountains several times for ministry and Gospel meetings in far southern regions in Argentina including Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego.
===Websites===
===Sources===
* "History of Assemblies in the United States and Canada" by Robert L. Peterson & David Rodgers; revised by Doug Engle
* Know Your Missionaries, 1986 September & 1989 June, Everyday Publications, Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
