1925 - Pastor Harry Matviiv was born in Ukraine on December 10.

1941 - At the age of sixteen he moved to Germany.

1946 - At the age of 21 he met and married Maria Korpita, also an emigrant of Ukraine.

1947 - Maria was touched by the Gospel of Jesus for the first time, thus accepting Jesus Christ as her personal Savior.

1949 - The Matviiv family, along with their two sons, immigrated to Brazil.

1951 - Harry also accepted Jesus Christ as his personal Savior and became an evangelical Christian.

1955 - Harry was consecrated by the local church to serve as a deacon.

1957 - Harry was consecrated by the same local church to serve as pastor, with a congregation of approximately 500.

1960 - Harry immigrated to Chicago, IL, and his wife and children followed a year after. They attended the Ukrainian Assembly of God, where Rev. Peter Dmitrash encouraged Harry to establish a new church.

1962 - Harry Matviiv founded the Ukrainian Christian Pentecostal Church, a starting congregation of 20 people who gathered in the church belonging to the Czechoslovakian Assembly of God.

1968 - As the congregation grew in number, they also grew financially, thus enabling them to purchase their own church.

1980 - As the congregation continued to grow, it enabled the church to purchased land in Bensenville and build an even larger church within a period of 2 years.

2002 - The 'doors' of immigration opened from the former Soviet Union, and many evangelical Christians from Ukraine poured into Chicago. Since many of these new immigrants became members of the Ukranian Christian Pentecostal Church, the building had now outgrown its seating capacity, thus forcing them to build an addition to the existing church.

2003 - Paul N. Poloz was commissioned as architect to design a church addition and Feofan Kucharchuk, a member of the church as well as a former architect in Ukraine, was appointed by church construction committee to assist Paul N. Poloz in program design.

2004 - Construction of church addition began in September.

2007 - Planned completion of church by July 2007.