 He converted to a Waldensian-Presbyterian mission that later was incorporated as the First Italian Presbyterian Church of Chicago.In 1907, Francescon had contact with the North Avenue Full Gospel Mission, pastored William Howard Durham, and accepted Pentecostalism.He was elected one of the elders of the "Assemblea Cristiana", an independent evangelical Italian church which had embraced Pentecostal teaching and became the mother-church for the Italian Pentecostal movement.