Arne Imsen

Finn Arne Imsen, born 1930, in Oslo Norway, was an evangelist, pastor and founder of the first Swedish Assembly within the Maranata Ministries, a Charismatic/Pentecostal-oriented Christian ministry. His father was a German/Norwegian carpenter, musician and evangelist. When the family moved to Stockholm, Sweden, Imsen was educated at the Pentecostal Bible School, he later worked as a metal-worker at LM Ericsson, where he became a union official. In 1959 he was called as a minister to Örebro Free Congregation from which the Maranatha Congregation was founded. Arne Imsen rose to fame in the religious world as well as in media. At it's peak, the Marantha Congregation could gather some 10 000 members in Sweden. Imsen,s leadership was disputed. It applied to both the ideological message and his power holdings, including financial issues.