IPHC Connections to the Azusa Street Revival
With the help of Dr. Harold Hunter, the IPHC archivist, we have developed a new timeline showing the influence that revival had on the development of the IPHC. Go there now...

Affiliations

Historic Timeline

Holiness Manifesto

Evangelical Manifesto

IPHC Apostolic Position Paper

KESLER @ Vanderbilt Divinity Library
70 years ago a man with a vision, John Louis Kesler, opened up the doors of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library to clergy members by allowing them access through the mail to the library’s collections. Today, this door is still open through the Kesler service.

KESLER @ Vanderbilt Divinity Library offers persons engaged in or retired from ministry the privilege to borrow items from the Vanderbilt Divinity Library via postal mail. The service is absolutely free to patrons, as they are only responsible to pay return postage on items borrowed. Read more here...



Welcome to the Archives & Research Center

We are IPHC Ministries (International Pentecostal Holiness Church) and we are very happy to be hosting your visit.

Our international office, the Resource Development Center, is located on beautiful rolling hills in Bethany, OK, a suburb of Oklahoma City. To reach us by mail, use P.O. Box 12609, Oklahoma City, OK 73157. To call by phone, dial (405) 787-7110 or fax to (405) 789-3957.

We have twenty-seven quadrennial conferences (regional judicatories) across the United States. For more information about those offices, or to reach anyone in the office in your area, check their contact information here. In addition, we have missionaries serving in more than 90 nations world-wide. Visit our sister denomination the Pentecostal Holiness Church of Canada. Affiliates and Friends of IPHC Ministries are listed here.

The Archives & Research Menu at the left links to pages that will help you understand Who We Are and What We Believe. Those pages are taken from various church publications, including our General Conference Minutes and our church Manual.

As part of our Centennial Celebration in 1998, a timeline was developed with commentary by our church archivist, Dr. Harold Hunter. The timeline also includes a short summary of the minutes of each General Conference held since 1911.

IPHC Constitutions, Disciplines & Manuals

This CD has a complete run of IPHC constitutions, disciplines, manuals and a few earlier ones produced by the Fire-Baptized Holiness Church (1900, 1905, 1908) and the Pentecostal Holiness Church (1902, 1908)."

The Complete Collection of the Pentecostal Holiness Advocate 1917-1996

The official publication of the PHC from 1917—1996. This PDF searchable DVD that includes the complete series can be purchased in the form of one double layered DVD or two DVDs (1917-1959, 1960-1996).

It includes a history of the PHC by G. F. Taylor and a history of the Fire-Baptized Holiness Church by J. H. King among other treasures.

Double-layered DVD format OR
Two DVD format

For more information or to place your order, visit our Catalog Page here.

We Need Your Help

Despite considerable gains to our collection, it has often times been impossible to locate originals—or even copies—of rare publications produced by the IPHC. We are missing many originals of the following IPHC periodicals:

  • Live Coals of Fire (1898-1899);
  • Live Coals (1902-1907);
  • Holiness Advocates (1900-1908);
  • Apostolic Evangels (1909-1917, et al); and
  • Bridegroom’s Messenger (1907-1909, et al).

Related periodicals that have been the object of extensive searches are

  • The Way of Faith (1903-1918, et al) and
  • The Altamont Witness (1911-1918, originals).

Additional serials of interest include:

  • Little Pentecostal People,
  • Twilight Echoes;
  • PHC Sunday School Magazine (1920s);
  • Southwestern PH News;
  • The Pentecostal Holiness Herald.

We also lack a complete run of conference minutes from all conferences.

Images that relate most to our mission must clearly identify persons, location, and date of national conferences and conventions, camp meetings and the like. Sermons by general superintendents and general officials that are handwritten, typed, transcribed, or on audio tape, video, cd, dvds, etc., are in short supply. Histories, diaries, tracts and publications by and about women ministers are particularly underrepresented as are Hispanics, African-Americans, and Asian-Americans in North America. Yearbooks from schools starting with Altamont Bible & Missionary Institute, Falcon Holiness Church, King’s College, Sharon Bible College, Franklin Springs Institute, Southwestern College, Pacific Coast Bible College are sought for as historical resources.

Material received will be carefully reviewed for their archival value. Any submission not accepted into the collection will not be discarded but returned to the owner. For more information about this process, contact Ms. Erica Rutland or call (405) 787-7110 x 3132. Our inventory and online catalog may be found at arc.iphc.org.

Materials that are kept by the IPHC Archives & Research Center will survive to future generations as everything in the fire-rated Archives vault is securely maintained in a controlled environment where humidity, temperature and light exposure is constantly monitored. (See photo of vault.) We are the first stop for serious researchers of IPHC materials and a wide range of needs that serve our church community. (See photo of Reading Room.)

Dr. Harold D. Hunter, Director
IPHC Archives & Research Center

Last update on 1/26/10
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