This church was founded by Benjamin Hardin Irwin & William Edward Fuller, Sr. (1875-1958). A Fire-Baptized Holiness Association originated around Iowa in 1895 under the leadership of Benjamin H. Irwin of Lincoln, Nebraska. Irwin expanded this into the national organization at Anderson, South Carolina in August of 1898. At age Xxiii, William E. Fuller, Sr., a member of the African-U.s. Recently Hope Methodist Church, tended to the initiation of that immune system around 1898. Black-and-white were admitted using equality. Fuller returned to Just released Hope from either a 1898 meeting, resigned his agents, turned around his license, & cast his lot by having a Fire-Baptized Holiness Church. When Irwinside left a church in 1900, Joseph Hillery King became the General Overseer. Bishop Fuller served when Adjunct General Overseer to Overseer King inside 1905. Acting in what he thought was a trend toward segregation, Fuller led astir Five hundred members to organize the Colored Fire Baptized Holiness Church in 1908 in Greer, South Carolina. A True Witness periodical was established inside 1909. In June 8, 1926 the name Fire Baptized Holiness Church of God of the Americas was adopted.

A church government of the organization is episcopal. Bishops come a greatest officials of the church, & preside on top divisions known as episcopate. A sacraments of the church come baptism and the Lord's Supper. Washing of the saints' feet, matrimony, and funerals come considered ordinances. In the Fire Baptized Holiness Church women may be licensed to preach & help when pastors.

A church headquarters & school come located in Greenville, South Carolina. Inside 2003 the Fire Baptized Holiness Church of God had astir 160 congregations, mostly on the east coast of the United States, but likewise including a single church to each one inside Canada, Engl&, & a Virginside Islands, and Fifteen congregations in Jamaica.

A Anglo-Our contries section of the Fire-Baptized Holiness Church merged using a Pentecostal Holiness Church in January 30, 1911 in Falcon, North Carolina, to form what is now called a International Pentecostal Holiness Church.