The Salvation of Al Farrar

Albert E. "Al" Farrar was a Police Captain for the Tacoma police department and a Republican state representative. As early as 1942, Farrar worked with the young people at the Pentecostal-Holiness Faith Temple, the church that Farrar would attend until his death in 1989. Farrar was well respected for his work with children and youth, both in the Temple and working with Washington D.C. in the legislature and conferences at the White House on Children and Youth. Interestingly, Farrar became the "head of the youth guidance division in February 1948, the same year that Latter Rain began to spread from the Sharon Orphanage in North Battleford Saskatchewan.

Farrar was one of the men William Branham (falsely) claimed to be "Head of the F.B.I. to support the notion that the government had investigated his healing claims and found them to be true. Branham frequently told his audience that "Every time an FBI agent come in my meeting, they got—they got saved."

By the first time that Branham claimed Farrar to be an FBI agent in 1952, however, Farrar had been working with the Tacoma Police Force for more than 25 years — not the FBI. Farrar announced his retirement from the police in November of that same year, transitioning from police work to politics. Though Branham claimed to have saved Farrar in his meeting, Farrar had also been converted to the Pentecostal faith as early as 1944, and held speaking engagements at Ern Baxter's Pentecostal Evangelistic Tabernacle. Baxter, who toured with Branham, would have been aware that Branham was not being truthful when making the claim.

Branham claimed to have saved Farrar in multiple locations. In some versions of the story told by Branham's stage persona, Farrar was saved in one of his revivals. In other versions, Farrar was saved at the Tacoma jail. Other versions of the story were told such that Farrar was saved "right down a shooting gallery."

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Al Farrar:
https://william-branham.org/site/research/people/albert_e._farrar