Positively positive.

[Sam]

Elvis Presley's Pentecostal roots were deep. His parents met in a Pentecostal church. His great-uncles co-pastored one. Elvis was baptized in one when he was about 9.
He was rebaptized in another one a few years later, according to Rev. Rex Dyson, a minister in one of the Church of Jesus Christ organizations. Dyson said he rebaptized Elvis and his parents, Vernon and Gladys, in Memphis sometime around 1950.

The Presley's moved to Memphis in 1948, when Elvis was 13. Dyson said it wasn't long after that when Elvis and his parents began worshiping at his Church of Jesus Christ on Seventh Street at Saffarans. The Presley's lived in several places around that time, all within a few blocks of Dyson's church.

“Vernon and Gladys heard me preach about baptism a few times, then they came to me and said they wanted to be baptized in the name of Jesus”, Dyson said. “Next Sunday morning, I baptized Vernon and then Gladys. Elvis was watching from the side. He walked over to the baptistry, while his mama and daddy were still in the water, and he said, `I want to be baptized like that'. So, I baptized Elvis in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ”.

During his high school years, Elvis frequently attended Bro. Dyson's church.

Bishop Joseph Rex Dyson was born March 12, 1900 in Redfield, Arkansas. On August 2, 2002 in Memphis, Tennessee at the age of 102 he died in Memphis, Tennessee. He is a 2008 inductee into the Apostolic Ministerial Hall of Fame.