- Bible Missionary Church Inc. 2005 Manual Book Of Mormon
- Bible Missionary Church
- Bible Missionary Church Directory
- Bible Missionary Baptist Church
Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection
The Bible Missionary Church holds a strong premillennialism view of the Second Coming of Jesus Christ, but its adherents hold a variety of views on the timing of the Rapture of the Church. 5 The Bible Missionary Church believes in aggressive evangelism 6 and in addition to its worldwide missionary efforts is currently expanding in North. Church Manual REVISED2010 18TH EDITIO N SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST Published by the Secretariat General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.
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- Roger also received a called to missions at a young age and attended The Bible Missionary Church. They both met in Guatemala on a Touching Lives for Christ trip. Soon after this trip Roger served in Nigeria, Africa for 6 months. They both attended Hobe Sound Bible College in Hobe Sound, Florida.
- ↑ Although the most relevant information is contained in the 2007 General Conference Journal of the Bible Missionary Church, not all churches report; therefore, accurate information is not available. ↑ The Bible Missionary Union. 2003 Manual ↑ Bible Missionary Church, Inc. 2003 Manual, 'History' ↑ Moyer, Ina: The Way It Really Was, pp 15-18.
The Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection (Original Allegheny Conference) was formed in 1968 after the Wesleyan Methodist Church of America (1843) merged with the Pilgrim Holiness Church to form the Wesleyan Church. Prominent among the leaders of the new Connection were Reverends H. C. Van Wormer, T. A. Robertson, J. B. Markey, and F.E. Mansell. These men, along with a majority of the conference, opposed the merger on the grounds that they believed in a republican form of church governance and in Wesleyan Methodist standards of behavior, which they believed were being abandoned in the new church. Legal technicalities forced them to add the words 'Original Allegheny Conference' to their name. Allegheny was one of the original conferences formed by the Wesleyan Methodist Church when it broke away from the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1843.
The Connection follows the traditional Holiness doctrine of the former Wesleyan Methodist Church. It emphasizes the belief that the atonement in Christ provides for both the regeneration of sinners and the entire sanctification of believers.
The Connection serves as an agency of the cooperative endeavor. There is a strong thrust in the foreign missions with work in Haiti, Ghana, and Peru. Domestic missions are conducted among Native Americans of the northwestern United States and Canada, and among international university students in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Membership
In 2006 there were 107 churches, 1,471 members, and 192 ministers.
Educational Facilities
Northwest Indian Bible School, Alberton, Montana.
Allegheny Wesleyan College, Salem, Ohio.
Periodicals
Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist.
Sources
Discipline of the Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection. Salem, OH: Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection, 2006.
Morrison, H. C. Baptism with the Holy Ghost. Salem, OH: Allegheny Wesleyan Methodist Connection, 1978.
Bible Methodist Connection of Churches
1216 Taylor Rd., Glencoe, AL 35905
In 1968, while the Pilgrim Holiness Church and the Wesleyan Methodist Church were merging, the Ohio Wesleyan Connection of Churches met with the Alabama Bible Methodists to see if a union of these two like-minded groups could be effected. Eighteen months later, in May 1970, the First General Conference of the Bible Methodist Connection of Churches met on the campus of God's Bible School to officially unite these two groups as the Bible Methodist Connection of Churches, with a membership of 794.
In 1970 these two bodies merged to form the Bible Methodist Connection of Churches. The connection is organized congregationally, specifically rejecting centralizing tendencies perceived to exist in the older Holiness bodies. The connection has three conferences: the Heartland Conference (formerly the Ohio Conference), Alabama Conference, and Great Lakes Conference. A conference assembly is held yearly and a general conference assembly meets every fourth year to shape church doctrine and polity.
The connection is a Holiness church whose doctrinal position is contained in the Twenty-two Articles of Religion derived from the Methodist Articles of Religion. They affirm the inspiration and infallibility of Scripture: justification; sanctification, the work of the Holy Spirit that cleanses a believer of inbred sin; and the imminent return of Christ.
In 2008 Bible Methodism had more churches on mission fields than any of its separate annual conferences had. Its primary field was in the Philippines, where it had about 40 churches and a bible college operating under national leadership. The Philippine work was organized with its own national conference with four annual conferences. In Mexico the Bible Methodist Churches were organized into a national conference in 1992. On the Mexico-Texas border the Latin American Bible Institute operates, with intermittent difficulties caused by lack of faculty and unco-operative Mexican authorities, to train Mexican laymen and pastors to do the work of the ministry. In 1992 two South Africans seeking affiliation with a Methodist Church for their pioneer work in that country found Bible Methodism, with its conservative lifestyle and emphasis on Holiness, to be the most compatible with their own beliefs. Subsequently, they joined Bible Methodism and become an arm of Bible Methodist missions operating in South Africa.
Membership
In 1997 there were 45 churches, 1,514 members, and 146 ministers in the United States, and 100 members in Canada. The church had missions and colleges in Mexico and the Philippines.
Educational Facilities
The Bible Methodist Connection supports and draws its ministers from:
God's Bible School and College, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Union Bible College, Westfield, Indiana, and
Hobe Sound Bible Institute, Hobe Sound, Florida.
Periodicals
The Bible Methodist.
Sources
Bible Methodist Connection of Churches. www.biblemethodist.org.
Bible Missionary Church
PO Box 6070, Rock Island, IL 61204-6070
Following the successful revival led by the Church of the Nazarene minister Rev. Glenn Griffith (1894–1976) near Nampa, Idaho, the group of conservative Holiness people attracted to Griffith's message were organized into the Bible Missionary Union. Word of the action spread quickly, and within 10 months congregations of like-minded people had been established in twenty states. Joining Griffith were J. E. Cook, Spencer Johnson, and H. B. Huffman. The first general conference of the church was held in Denver in 1956, at which the present name was selected. Membership in the church has been augmented by the failure of conservatives in 1956 to have the Nazarene Council Assembly condemn television.
Like its parent, the Church of the Nazarene's doctrine is Wesleyan with an emphasis on Holiness. Entire sanctification, as freedom from original sin and a state of entire devotion to God, is stressed. The future life, heaven and hell, and the premillennial return of Jesus are also central beliefs. The church is understood as 'composed of all spiritually regenerated persons whose names are written in heaven.' The general rules also have been expanded with the addition of much detail on points of behavior. The difference between the Bible Missionary Church and the parent body, the Church of the Nazarene, is primarily the degree of strictness of personal Holiness regulations. The church has endorsed the King James Version of the Bible for use in its churches and has gone on record against modern versions of the Bible, especially the Revised Standard Version, the Living Bible, the New English Translation, the Readers' Digest Condensed Version, and the New International Version.
The church is headed by two general moderators who preside over the general conference, the highest law-making body for the church. Foreign mission work is supported in Guyana, Venezuela, St. Vincent (West Indies), Canada, Nigeria, Honduras, Japan, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Barbados, and Mexico; there also is a home mission project on the Navaho Reservation at Farmington, New Mexico. A children's home is operated in Beulah Heights, Kentucky.
Membership
Not reported. There are 14 district conferences overseeing churches across the United States.
Educational Facilities
Bible Missionary Institute, Rock Island, Illinois.
Periodicals
Bible Missionary Church Inc. 2005 Manual Book Of Mormon
The Missionary Revivalist.
Sources
Bible Missionary Church. Manual. Rock Island, IL: Author, n.d.
Cook, J. E. W. M. Tidwell (A Life That Counted).Ann Arbor, MI: Mallory Lithographing, n.d.
Keene, Mrs. Roy. Love-Threads Reaching. Rock Island, IL: Bible Missionary Church, 1979.
Church of the Bible Covenant
Current address not obtained for this edition.
In 1966 four Indiana-based ministers of the Church of the Nazarene (Marvin Powers, Amos Hann, Donald Hicks, and Granville Rogers) formed a steering committee that led to the establishment of the Church of the Bible Covenant the following year at the John T. Hatfield Campground near Cleveland, Indiana. The four invited their former district superintendent, Remiss Rehfeldt, to join them. On August 10, 1967, the new church elected Rehfeldt and Powers as general presiding officers. Those who gathered for that meeting then spread across the country under the leadership of 12 regional presiding officers to develop local congregations.
The church's doctrine follows essentially that of the Wesleyan-Protestant tradition, with a strong emphasis on holiness and a high code of ethical standards. A general convention meets quadrennially, during which time elections are held and legislation considered. In 1982 Rehfeldt retired and was granted emeritus status. Donald Hicks was elected as new general presiding officer.
Membership
Not reported.
Educational Facilities
Covenant Foundation College, Greenfield, Indiana. The church maintains three Bible-training institutions overseas.
Periodicals
The Covenanter. Available from New Castle, IN 47352.
Sources
Articles. Knightsville, IN: Church of the Bible Covenant, 1970.
Evangelical Wesleyan Church
6626 East Wayne Rd., Cooperstown, PA 16317
The Evangelical Wesleyan Church was formed in 1963 through the merger of the Evangelical Wesleyan Church of North America and the Midwest Holiness Association, both churches being composed of members who had left the Free Methodist Church. The Evangelical Wesleyan Church of North America was organized at a convention on July 19, 1958, held near Centerville, Crawford County, Pennsylvania, with a dedication to restore old-time Free Methodism. (The members sought a stricter interpretation of personal moral codes; e.g., they were concerned about women's hairstyles and makeup and the length of dresses.) The Midwest Holiness Association was formed in 1962 as a protest against worldliness and apostasy in the Free Methodist Church. The organizing convention of the Midwest Holiness Association was held in Ansley, Nebraska. The Evangelical Wesleyan Church is opposed to any compromising of the old doctrines and standards of Free Methodism and follows Free Methodism's patterns.
Membership
In 2008 the group reported 250 members, 27 congregations, and 46 clergy.
Educational Facilities
Evangelical Wesleyan Bible College, Cooperstown, Pennsylania.
Periodicals
The Earnest Christian.
God's Missionary Church
125 N Main St., Middleburg, PA 17842
God's Missionary Church is one of the older conservative Holiness bodies. It was formed in 1935 as a result of a dispute in the Pennsylvania and New Jersey district of the Pilgrim Holiness Church.
The church is very strict in discipline and also is opposed to participation in war, reflecting the Quaker influence in the founding of the Pilgrim Holiness Church. The church is congregational but headed by a conference president, who in 2008 was Rev. Harry Plank. There is missionary work in Haiti and among Cuban refugees in Florida. It cooperates with the Interdenominational Holiness Convention.
Membership
Not reported. In 1971 there were 595 members, 532 of whom resided in Pennsylvania. The church's website listed 46 churches in its church directory in 2008.
Educational Facilities
Penn View Bible Institute, Penns Creek, Pennsylvania.
Periodicals
God's Missionary Standard.
Sources
God's Missionary Church. www.godsmissionarychurch.org.
God's Missionary Church. Official Handbook and Discipline. Watsontown, PA: Author, 1971.
Lower Lights Church
Ann Arbor, MI
The Lower Lights Church was formed in 1940 as a single congregation (the Lower Light Mission) in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It subsequently branched out to neighboring communities and now cooperates with the Interdenominational Holiness Convention.
Membership
Not reported. There are several congregations in Michigan and Ohio with several hundred members.
National Association of Holiness Churches
351 S Park Dr., Griffith, IN 46319
The National Association of Holiness Churches was formed at the Singing Hill Camp Ground near Shoals, Indiana, in 1967. H. Robb French (1891–1985), a former pastor in the Wesleyan Methodist Church and one of the founders of the Interdenominational Holiness Convention, was the chief moving force in its founding and early development. French was the first general chairman, a post he held until his resignation in 1973. The association exists as a loose confederation of independent ministers and churches formed for the purposes of promoting holiness and providing fellowship. An annual camp meeting and association general conference is held in June. Missionary work is supported in Mexico, Brazil, and India.
Membership
In 2002 there were 12 congregations in the association and 42 affiliated ministers in the United States. Many of the ministers and churches affiliated with the association are also affiliated with other conservative holiness church bodies.
Periodicals
The NAHC Bulletin.
Sources
www.ourchurch.com/member/p/PHC_of_Griffith/.
Pilgrim Holiness Church of New York
32 Cadillac Ave., Albany, NY 12205
The Pilgrim Holiness Church of New York traces its history to the Pentecostal Rescue Mission organized in 1897 in Binghamton, New York. In 1922 that mission affiliated as an autonomous district with the International Holiness Church, which in the following year was renamed Pilgrim Holiness Church. During the 1960s the Pilgrim Holiness Church began a process of centralizing authority in the national headquarters and preparing for merger with the Wesleyan Methodist Church. (The merger was completed in 1968 with the creation of the Wesleyan Church.) In 1963, asserting its autonomous status, the New York Conference left the Pilgrim Holiness Church. In 2008 it continues as an independent organization.
The church is very conservative in doctrine and strict in practice, as are those churches that are affiliated with the Interdenominational Holiness Convention. Missions are directly supported in Brazil, Haiti, and Winnepeg, Manitoba, Canada, and other locations through various missionary agencies. Churches are located in New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and Canada.
In 2008 Rev. Donald M. Myers was the conference president.
Membership
In 2002 the church reported 726 members, 53 churches, and 79 ministers in the United States and 36 members, 3 churches, and 3 ministers in Canada.
Educational Facilities
The church has no school of its own, but financially supports and recommends the following:
God's Bible School, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Hobe Sound Bible School, Hobe Sound, Florida (sponsored by the National Association of Holiness Churches).
Allegheny Wesleyan College, Salem, Ohio.
Penn View Bible Institute, Penns Creek, Pennsylvania (sponsored by God's Missionary Church).
Periodicals
Pilgrim News.
Sources
Pilgrim Holiness Church of New York. phcofny.homestead.com/files/index.htm.
Pilgrim Nazarene Church
c/o Rev. Dale Hayford, 504 Valley Dr., Rogers, AR 72756
The Pilgrim Nazarene Church was founded at the end of 2003 by former members of the Bible Missionary Church, a conservative Holiness church. The founders felt that the Bible Missionary church had begun to drift from the high standards around which it had been founded. It formally continues the beliefs and practices of the parent organization, as it continues to use the Bible Missionary Church's manual as a guide for its own organization. It dispute was with the lack of strictness of the Holiness practice within the parent church.
Membership
In 2008 the church reported 14 congregations affiliated with it. At that time, however, a number of additional congregations were in the process of leaving the Bible Missionary Church and were still making decisions about affiliation.
Educational Facilities
Hobe Sound Bible College, Hobe Sound, Florida.
Periodicals
The Pilgrim Nazarene Church Herald.
Sources
Pilgrim Nazarene Church. www.pilgrimnazarene.org/.
Pilgrim Holiness Church of the Midwest
6402 Ridgeview Dr., Anderson, IN 46013
The Pilgrim Holiness Church of the Midwest was formed in 1970. Three years earlier, ten congregations affiliated with the Pilgrim Holiness Church, led by Rev. James Southerland and Rev. Eugene Gray, had withdrawn to become the Midwest Conference of the Pilgrim Holiness Church of New York. Those ten congregations eventually decided to remain independent, though they have stayed friendly with the New York group. They adopted their own discipline (book of church order). Mission work is through the Evangelical Faith Missions and Evangelical Bible Missions.
The church holds an annual conference. The conference president in 2008 was Rev. James Southerland, who has served since 1970.
Membership
In 2008 the church's website listed 39 congregations in its church directory.
Educational Facilities
Union Bible Seminary.
Sources
Pilgrim Holiness Church of the Midwest. midwestphc.org.
United Holiness Church of North America
Current address not obtained for this edition.
The United Holiness Church of North America was formed in 1955 by conservatives within the Free Methodist Church at a camp meeting in Carson City, Michigan. Headquarters are at the Bible College at Cedar. It resembles its parent body, but is stricter in its standards of holiness. The church cooperates with the Interdenominational Holiness Convention.
Membership
Not reported.
Educational Facilities
Jordan College, Cedar Springs, Michigan.
Periodicals
United Holiness Sentinel.
Voice of the Nazarene Association of Churches
PO Box 606, Meadow Lands, PA 15347-0606
One focus within the Church of the Nazarene of the post–World II conservative Holiness movement was a magazine, the Voice of the Nazarene, published at Finleyville, Pennsylvania, by the church member W. L. King. Following the 1956 decision in the Church of the Nazarene to allow its members to watch television, some anti-television members in the East associated with King to form the Voice of the Nazarene Association of Churches. It is a loosely congregational organization. The literature from the Finleyville headquarters isis extremely conservative, both politically and religiously, in its strong opposition to communism, the National Council of Churches, and the Roman Catholic Church.
Membership
Not reported. In 1967 there were eight member congregations (plus 18 cooperating congregations) and 31 association evangelists.
Periodicals
Universal Challenger. • Voice of the Nazarene.
Sources
Voice of the Nazarene Association of Churches. www.voiceofthenazarene.com.
Wesleyan Holiness Association of Churches
Current address not obtained for this edition.
The Wesleyan Holiness Association of Churches was organized in 1960 by Rev. Glenn Griffith (1894–1976) and others who had left the Bible Missionary Church in protest against what they saw as a drifting away from the old Wesleyan revival fervor and standards. They also objected to its acceptance of divorced persons into the membership and ministry. At an informal meeting of ministers and laypeople in August 1959, Griffith was chosen the general leader, and an initial general conference with an accompanying camp meeting was set for the next year at Colorado Springs, Colorado. At that meeting, Griffith was unanimously elected to the post of general moderator (now general superintendent) of the new Wesleyan Holiness Association of Churches. Among its objectives were to emphasize the doctrine and experience of entire sanctification and to raise the standard of holiness in daily living. It upheld a strict code of personal conduct.
The association's six-article doctrine stated the basic affirmations of traditional Wesleyan Christianity. Article IV concerned God's plan of redemption and affirmed free will, faith, repentance, and justification. It emphasized sanctification as a second act of God in believers, whereby they are made free from original sin or depravity and brought into a state of entire 'devotement' to God. Sanctification is followed by a continued growth in grace. The association practiced two sacraments: baptism (by sprinkling or pouring, with immersion preferred) and the Lord's Supper. The association stated a belief in divine healing. It opposed drafting females into military service.
The association was congregationally governed. Each church owned its own property and called its own ministers. Churches were grouped into five districts, each served by a district superintendent. A representative general conference met biennially, electing a board and a lay delegate from each district. The association's home missionary program included work among American Indians in Arizona and New Mexico; its foreign missionaries operated in Africa, Bolivia, the Grand Caymans, Guatemala, Taiwan, and New Guinea.
Membership
In 1992 the association reported 36 congregations served by 65 ordained and 25 licensed ministers.
Periodicals
Eleventh Hour Messenger.
Sources
Declaration of Principles. Dayton, OH: Wesleyan Holiness Association of Churches, 1981.
Griffith, Glenn. I Sought for a Man. Phoenix, AZ: Author, n.d.
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6626 East Wayne Rd., Cooperstown, PA 16317
The Evangelical Wesleyan Church was formed in 1963 through the merger of the Evangelical Wesleyan Church of North America and the Midwest Holiness Association, both churches being composed of members who had left the Free Methodist Church. The Evangelical Wesleyan Church of North America was organized at a convention on July 19, 1958, held near Centerville, Crawford County, Pennsylvania, with a dedication to restore old-time Free Methodism. (The members sought a stricter interpretation of personal moral codes; e.g., they were concerned about women's hairstyles and makeup and the length of dresses.) The Midwest Holiness Association was formed in 1962 as a protest against worldliness and apostasy in the Free Methodist Church. The organizing convention of the Midwest Holiness Association was held in Ansley, Nebraska. The Evangelical Wesleyan Church is opposed to any compromising of the old doctrines and standards of Free Methodism and follows Free Methodism's patterns.
Membership
In 2008 the group reported 250 members, 27 congregations, and 46 clergy.
Educational Facilities
Evangelical Wesleyan Bible College, Cooperstown, Pennsylania.
Periodicals
The Earnest Christian.
God's Missionary Church
125 N Main St., Middleburg, PA 17842
God's Missionary Church is one of the older conservative Holiness bodies. It was formed in 1935 as a result of a dispute in the Pennsylvania and New Jersey district of the Pilgrim Holiness Church.
The church is very strict in discipline and also is opposed to participation in war, reflecting the Quaker influence in the founding of the Pilgrim Holiness Church. The church is congregational but headed by a conference president, who in 2008 was Rev. Harry Plank. There is missionary work in Haiti and among Cuban refugees in Florida. It cooperates with the Interdenominational Holiness Convention.
Membership
Not reported. In 1971 there were 595 members, 532 of whom resided in Pennsylvania. The church's website listed 46 churches in its church directory in 2008.
Educational Facilities
Penn View Bible Institute, Penns Creek, Pennsylvania.
Periodicals
God's Missionary Standard.
Sources
God's Missionary Church. www.godsmissionarychurch.org.
God's Missionary Church. Official Handbook and Discipline. Watsontown, PA: Author, 1971.
Lower Lights Church
Ann Arbor, MI
The Lower Lights Church was formed in 1940 as a single congregation (the Lower Light Mission) in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It subsequently branched out to neighboring communities and now cooperates with the Interdenominational Holiness Convention.
Membership
Not reported. There are several congregations in Michigan and Ohio with several hundred members.
National Association of Holiness Churches
351 S Park Dr., Griffith, IN 46319
The National Association of Holiness Churches was formed at the Singing Hill Camp Ground near Shoals, Indiana, in 1967. H. Robb French (1891–1985), a former pastor in the Wesleyan Methodist Church and one of the founders of the Interdenominational Holiness Convention, was the chief moving force in its founding and early development. French was the first general chairman, a post he held until his resignation in 1973. The association exists as a loose confederation of independent ministers and churches formed for the purposes of promoting holiness and providing fellowship. An annual camp meeting and association general conference is held in June. Missionary work is supported in Mexico, Brazil, and India.
Membership
In 2002 there were 12 congregations in the association and 42 affiliated ministers in the United States. Many of the ministers and churches affiliated with the association are also affiliated with other conservative holiness church bodies.
Periodicals
The NAHC Bulletin.
Sources
www.ourchurch.com/member/p/PHC_of_Griffith/.
Pilgrim Holiness Church of New York
32 Cadillac Ave., Albany, NY 12205
The Pilgrim Holiness Church of New York traces its history to the Pentecostal Rescue Mission organized in 1897 in Binghamton, New York. In 1922 that mission affiliated as an autonomous district with the International Holiness Church, which in the following year was renamed Pilgrim Holiness Church. During the 1960s the Pilgrim Holiness Church began a process of centralizing authority in the national headquarters and preparing for merger with the Wesleyan Methodist Church. (The merger was completed in 1968 with the creation of the Wesleyan Church.) In 1963, asserting its autonomous status, the New York Conference left the Pilgrim Holiness Church. In 2008 it continues as an independent organization.
The church is very conservative in doctrine and strict in practice, as are those churches that are affiliated with the Interdenominational Holiness Convention. Missions are directly supported in Brazil, Haiti, and Winnepeg, Manitoba, Canada, and other locations through various missionary agencies. Churches are located in New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and Canada.
In 2008 Rev. Donald M. Myers was the conference president.
Membership
In 2002 the church reported 726 members, 53 churches, and 79 ministers in the United States and 36 members, 3 churches, and 3 ministers in Canada.
Educational Facilities
The church has no school of its own, but financially supports and recommends the following:
God's Bible School, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Hobe Sound Bible School, Hobe Sound, Florida (sponsored by the National Association of Holiness Churches).
Allegheny Wesleyan College, Salem, Ohio.
Penn View Bible Institute, Penns Creek, Pennsylvania (sponsored by God's Missionary Church).
Periodicals
Pilgrim News.
Sources
Pilgrim Holiness Church of New York. phcofny.homestead.com/files/index.htm.
Pilgrim Nazarene Church
c/o Rev. Dale Hayford, 504 Valley Dr., Rogers, AR 72756
The Pilgrim Nazarene Church was founded at the end of 2003 by former members of the Bible Missionary Church, a conservative Holiness church. The founders felt that the Bible Missionary church had begun to drift from the high standards around which it had been founded. It formally continues the beliefs and practices of the parent organization, as it continues to use the Bible Missionary Church's manual as a guide for its own organization. It dispute was with the lack of strictness of the Holiness practice within the parent church.
Membership
In 2008 the church reported 14 congregations affiliated with it. At that time, however, a number of additional congregations were in the process of leaving the Bible Missionary Church and were still making decisions about affiliation.
Educational Facilities
Hobe Sound Bible College, Hobe Sound, Florida.
Periodicals
The Pilgrim Nazarene Church Herald.
Sources
Pilgrim Nazarene Church. www.pilgrimnazarene.org/.
Pilgrim Holiness Church of the Midwest
6402 Ridgeview Dr., Anderson, IN 46013
The Pilgrim Holiness Church of the Midwest was formed in 1970. Three years earlier, ten congregations affiliated with the Pilgrim Holiness Church, led by Rev. James Southerland and Rev. Eugene Gray, had withdrawn to become the Midwest Conference of the Pilgrim Holiness Church of New York. Those ten congregations eventually decided to remain independent, though they have stayed friendly with the New York group. They adopted their own discipline (book of church order). Mission work is through the Evangelical Faith Missions and Evangelical Bible Missions.
The church holds an annual conference. The conference president in 2008 was Rev. James Southerland, who has served since 1970.
Membership
In 2008 the church's website listed 39 congregations in its church directory.
Educational Facilities
Union Bible Seminary.
Sources
Pilgrim Holiness Church of the Midwest. midwestphc.org.
United Holiness Church of North America
Current address not obtained for this edition.
The United Holiness Church of North America was formed in 1955 by conservatives within the Free Methodist Church at a camp meeting in Carson City, Michigan. Headquarters are at the Bible College at Cedar. It resembles its parent body, but is stricter in its standards of holiness. The church cooperates with the Interdenominational Holiness Convention.
Membership
Not reported.
Educational Facilities
Jordan College, Cedar Springs, Michigan.
Periodicals
United Holiness Sentinel.
Voice of the Nazarene Association of Churches
PO Box 606, Meadow Lands, PA 15347-0606
One focus within the Church of the Nazarene of the post–World II conservative Holiness movement was a magazine, the Voice of the Nazarene, published at Finleyville, Pennsylvania, by the church member W. L. King. Following the 1956 decision in the Church of the Nazarene to allow its members to watch television, some anti-television members in the East associated with King to form the Voice of the Nazarene Association of Churches. It is a loosely congregational organization. The literature from the Finleyville headquarters isis extremely conservative, both politically and religiously, in its strong opposition to communism, the National Council of Churches, and the Roman Catholic Church.
Membership
Not reported. In 1967 there were eight member congregations (plus 18 cooperating congregations) and 31 association evangelists.
Periodicals
Universal Challenger. • Voice of the Nazarene.
Sources
Voice of the Nazarene Association of Churches. www.voiceofthenazarene.com.
Wesleyan Holiness Association of Churches
Current address not obtained for this edition.
The Wesleyan Holiness Association of Churches was organized in 1960 by Rev. Glenn Griffith (1894–1976) and others who had left the Bible Missionary Church in protest against what they saw as a drifting away from the old Wesleyan revival fervor and standards. They also objected to its acceptance of divorced persons into the membership and ministry. At an informal meeting of ministers and laypeople in August 1959, Griffith was chosen the general leader, and an initial general conference with an accompanying camp meeting was set for the next year at Colorado Springs, Colorado. At that meeting, Griffith was unanimously elected to the post of general moderator (now general superintendent) of the new Wesleyan Holiness Association of Churches. Among its objectives were to emphasize the doctrine and experience of entire sanctification and to raise the standard of holiness in daily living. It upheld a strict code of personal conduct.
The association's six-article doctrine stated the basic affirmations of traditional Wesleyan Christianity. Article IV concerned God's plan of redemption and affirmed free will, faith, repentance, and justification. It emphasized sanctification as a second act of God in believers, whereby they are made free from original sin or depravity and brought into a state of entire 'devotement' to God. Sanctification is followed by a continued growth in grace. The association practiced two sacraments: baptism (by sprinkling or pouring, with immersion preferred) and the Lord's Supper. The association stated a belief in divine healing. It opposed drafting females into military service.
The association was congregationally governed. Each church owned its own property and called its own ministers. Churches were grouped into five districts, each served by a district superintendent. A representative general conference met biennially, electing a board and a lay delegate from each district. The association's home missionary program included work among American Indians in Arizona and New Mexico; its foreign missionaries operated in Africa, Bolivia, the Grand Caymans, Guatemala, Taiwan, and New Guinea.
Membership
In 1992 the association reported 36 congregations served by 65 ordained and 25 licensed ministers.
Periodicals
Eleventh Hour Messenger.
Sources
Declaration of Principles. Dayton, OH: Wesleyan Holiness Association of Churches, 1981.
Griffith, Glenn. I Sought for a Man. Phoenix, AZ: Author, n.d.
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- Three volumes of 930 pages packed with practical ideas for missionary care!
- Written for the novice and non-professional —easy to use!
- Easy to navigate and find what you need now, without reading it all.
- This is for people of all nations and cultures.
- Available in PDF (for reading on computer) format.
- 24 PowerPoints (in PDF format) that correspond with every heading and bullet in the handbook are separately available for purchase. These contain colour, photos, graphs and charts.
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Missionary Survey Overview
The author conducted a survey for missionaries in 2005-6 and more than 2,000 missionaries participated. You are welcome to download the outcomes free of charge in PDF format.
Although the issues that can be measured by this survey are multiple, the main purpose of this survey was to measure the following:
- Main stressors of missionaries from various cultures and agencies
- Reasons why they think others are resigning and returning home
- Reasons why they themselves may resign and return home
- What care they have received in the past year – main refresher
- What care they desire
- Percentage of financial income compared to their needs
- What topics they think should be taught to Missionary Care Providers
- Personal comments
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Bible Missionary Baptist Church
'I have never come across a book on this topic so well laid out, so easy to navigate and so full of practical wisdom. I recommend this tool for every sender, leader, trainer and Missionary Care Provider, and every local church serious about caring for their missionaries.'
– Floyd McClung, Founder and Director: All Nations, Cape Town, South Africa;
author of 'Father Heart of God' and various other books.
'If only we and our colleagues had this resource at our disposal years ago. This is a fantastic, practical tool that is urgently needed by the mission force! After more than 20 years both on the frontline of tribal missions and Bible translation, and in leadership roles, we have seen and experienced many of the issues this book addresses. Finally! A valuable, comprehensive resource that brings real help.'
– Albert and Lynne Castelijn, Bible Translators of New Tribes Mission, Philippines; authors of 'The Story of New Tribes Mission in Australia and New Zealand', 1991
'It is a privilege to recommend ‘Thriving in Difficult Places' as a trustworthy resource for all missionaries and those responsible for their supportive care. Having known Brenda for many years, I know that every page of these three volumes is based on a rare blend of hard-earned experience and thoughtful research.'
– Karen Floor, National Director: Wycliffe Bible Translators, South Africa
'In dealing with some issues with our staff, your books are really helping us a lot. We have been going back and forth, using your books to help us know how to walk alongside our staff. Thank you for your making these available to us.'
– Leah Albano, Director of Discipleship Training School, YWAM Antipolo, Philippines.
