On 3 April 1963, a team of Missionaries led by late Rev. Bai Sesay from Hastings Sierra Leone came to the Allentown, a suburb of the national capital Freetown. Sis. Thorping from England headed this team under the Assemblies of God Mission. They spoke to him of their visit. He accepted the vision from that day and joined the Assemblies of God Church. He started to preach, pray and work for the Lord. The Lord blessed his efforts including putting up a building for the congregation.

In 1971, another group of Missionaries from Liberia headed by the late Bishop Peter J. Warkie came to Sierra Leone to visit the late Bishop S.T Grant and late Elder Daniel Conteh of Circular Road, Freetown. Bishop John K. Cole was invited to a meeting held at the residence of the late Eld. Daniel Conteh of the Pentecostal Assemblies of the World Church. At the end of the meeting, the late Bishop Grant and Bishop Cole accepted the church and wrote a letter of affiliation to work with the P.A.W organization.

In 1972 a conference was held at Fort Street with eight delegates from the U.S.A led by the late Bishop Smith attending the conference. At the end of the conference, Bishop J.K Cole was ordained as reverend. On 5 May 1975, Bishop J.K. Cole was united in Holy Matrimony to Mrs. Hannah Cole, the daughter of the late Pa Momoh Conteh. The lord blessed their union with seven children, three boys and four girls. After a few years, the building was filled and the lord gave Bishop Cole the vision to put up a bigger building as the congregation out grew their facility.

On the 23 August 1983 Bishop S.T Grant passed away and Bishop Cole succeeded him. On the 6 April 1984, Bishop W.N. Discon from the United State brought a letter of appointment, which was handed over to Bishop Cole on 7 April 1984 at the residence of the late Bishop Grant at 12 Sankey Street, Freetown.

On the 8th April, 1984 which was a Palm Sunday, the elevation of Bishop Cole was announced officially to all churches of the Sierra Leone Diocese. On the 8th August 1984, he went to Washington D.C, where he was consecrated as a Bishop of the P.A.W Mission.

Under his leadership, he made some developments as the Lord helped him in the work. He was able to facilitate the building of the Faith in Christ Church, which is the Headquarter Church of the 34th Episcopal District of the P.A.W (Inc.) Mission Sierra Leone and other branch churches within the P.A.W. Mission, established schools and agricultural farm for the mission. Moreover, later on the late Bishop Pit’s daughter Sister June Cranston help him to open the Sis. Jun Cranston Clinic at Allentown. Due to a lack of funds to keep it running, the clinic was closed.

In 2009 Bishop J.K. Cole left Sierra Leone for the UK for extensive medical care, including dialysis treatments. On 2 July 2013, Bishop Cole passed away and Suff. Bishop Bai Sesay attempted serve in the interim. Suffragan Bishop Bai Sesay subsequently passed during the Ebola crisis. Since that time Pastor Paul K. Cole, the son of the Late Bishop John K. Cole, continued the work began by his late father. In 2016 Pastor Paul Cole continued the work under the leadership of Bishop Mona Reide to address administrative and project concerns of the Sierra Leone Diocese within the guidelines of the PAW in U.S.A. after Bishop Charles H. Ellis, III in his capacity as the Presiding Bishop of the Pentecostal Assemblies of the World, Inc., appointed Bishop Dr Mona Reide to serve as his representative in Sierra Leone, West Africa. In 2017 Dr Reide made history as the first female Bishop with a Diocese for the Pentecostal Assemblies of the World, Inc. She was assigned to Sierra Leone. Under Bishop Reide’s leadership, following eleven years of vacancy for the Diocesan Bishop, the diocese has continued to grow and become stabilized.