Rev. Grover Cleveland Lout was a Pentecostal leader from Shreveport Louisana and the father-in-law of Rev. Jack Moore, William Branham's close associate and business manager. In 1927 Lout organized the first Pentecostal Assembly in Shreveport, the "Pentecostal Christian Church" later named "Faith Tabernacle" as well as other Pentecostal churches in Louisiana. Lout was the secretary of state for the Pentecostals in Louisiana, and held Pentecostal revivals as far as Fort Worth, Texas.<br /><br />In 1931 Lout was asked to do "special police work" for the Shreveport police force to "clean up" Shreveport. Police officials asked Lout to attend meetings of the Shreveport Ministerial Association, and report back to Commissioner T. C. Dawkins. Lout claimed that he did so on a salary basis, which city officials refused to pay after Mayor J. G. Palmer rules that Lout’s activities were illegal.<br /><br />Due to his position and rank in the Pentecostal faith, Lout would have been a target for Roy Davis as Davis worked to establish not only his Pentecostal Baptist Church of God Sect, but also as Davis worked to establish what would later become a strong foothold in Shreveport for his Original Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. Shreveport / Bossier City was a stop in Roy E. Davis' revival circuit, during a time when most — if not all — of the Pentecostals in the area were under Lout's leadership. <br /><br />You can learn this and more on william-branham.org<br /><br />https://william-branham.org/site/research/people/grover_c._lout
