IPHC Historic Timeline Centennial Notes

Centennial Notes

By Dr. Harold Hunter

Year: 1899
Four Fire-Baptized Holiness missionaries arrive in Cuba

1899: Four Fire-Baptized Holiness Missionaries Travel to Cuba

The missionary impulse manifest itself early. Frank R. Porter, who served as FBH Ruling Elder for Tennessee, and W.B. Martin made plans in 1899 to go to Africa. In December 1899, John Dull, Sarah M. Payne, Nora Arnold, and Cornelia Allen set sail on the Cape Fear steamer for Cuba.⁽²⁵⁾ These FBH compatriots were joined in this missionary thrust by Daniel Awrey who made a 7,100 mile trip in 1899. Awrey who had spoken in tongues in 1890, circled the globe in 1909 and participated in a pentecostal world conference in Europe. Awrey returned to the states to take charge of Emmanuel’s Bible School in Beulah, Oklahoma. This school trained several families for the PHC including: Dunlaps, Robert Aarons, Chesters, Reeders, Knights, Taylors, Starks, Odens, Hills, Bealls, Reinkings, Millers, Kennys, Anderson, Dodds, Moores, Bridges, Kerns, Herrells, Starchers, Martins, Colsons, Davises, Peters, Kerseys, Neals, Boles, Quintals, Colliers, Higginbothams, Stewarts, and Thurmans. In 1910/11, Awrey was in India and China with Frank Bartleman, an Azusa St. Revival leader. In 1913, Awrey died in Liberia. Ethel E. Goss’ The Winds of God ⁽²⁶⁾gave high marks to Daniel Awrey:

Daniel Awrey was a world-famous Bible teacher, missionary and traveler. He was a man of cultivation and charm, but in his trips around the world, he used little of the abundant offerings he received for himself. In order to save and give to others, he bought steerage tickets and arranged to forego hotels by sitting up in trains at night. By living austerely, with much fasting, he was able to send thousands of dollars through the years to missionaries who were suffering privations in the field.

The first Holiness Church [PHC] Foreign Mission Board was formed in 1904. It was composed entirely of female saints with Mrs. Hannibal Bizzel of Dunn, Secretary and Treasurer.⁽²⁷⁾ Meanwhile, J.H. King as General Overseer of the Fire-Baptized Holiness Church made appeals for "foreign missions"—meaning perspective missionaries and financial support—in the pages of Live Coals.

In 1916, Mrs. N.J. Holmes singled out Miss Lucy Jones who had already served 14 years as a missionary to China. In 1906, Miss Effie Mae Glover, a student at the Altamont Bible and Missionary Institute, went to Guatemala and stayed for two years. She returned to the states briefly and agreed to marry Amos Bradley,⁽²⁸⁾ a graduate of J.O. McClurkan’s Nashville and Holmes’ Bible schools, on a ship to insure that they would return to Central America. She stayed in Guatemala for 24 years, returning to the states only due to failing health and the Depression. Amos Bradley’s many years (44 by 1962) in Central America⁽²⁹⁾ accounted for the establishment of several Pentecostal Holiness works in Central America.

For the China story, please visit "PHC sponsors first Pentecostal Missionary to China."

Miss Della Gaines went to India in 1910 for the Fire-Baptized Holiness Church. The J.M. Turners would reach India in 1922. Miss Gaines was part of a travelling party that set sail with J.H. King.⁽³⁰⁾ Rev. A.B. Garr and his wife recommended that King should visit Pentecostal mission sites around the world. King left the Falcon Holiness School in January 1910 and got confirmation of his world mission tour while at Texas Holiness University. He wrote in The Bridegroom’s Messenger:

God clearly and miraculously opened the way for me to go with Brother Britton to Greenville, Texas. ... While there God gave me a message in tongues and the full interpretation to the effect that I should leave, or begin to make preparation to leave in the spring.⁽³¹⁾

During this trip (1911), King received independent missionaries already in India, namely Rev. R.E. Massey and Rev. D.S. McHaffey into the PHC.⁽³²⁾ King spent two years outside the United States trying to spread the gospel message. Henry C. King’s 1912/13 stay in Liberia could have brought him into contact with Daniel Awrey.⁽³³⁾

One of the earliest PHC missionaries to Africa was Kenneth E.M. Spooner, originally from the British West Indies. He and his wife arrived in South Africa in 1913. He remainded there until his death in 1937 by which time he had established 60 churches. His wife, Mrs. Geraldine M. Spooner a native of Central America, would remain in Africa until her passing in her 90s.

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Centennial Notes

Year: 1899
Four Fire-Baptized Holiness missionaries arrive in Cuba

1899: Four Fire-Baptized Holiness Missionaries Travel to Cuba

The missionary impulse manifest itself early. Frank R. Porter, who served as FBH Ruling Elder for Tennessee, and W.B. Martin made plans in 1899 to go to Africa. In December 1899, John Dull, Sarah M. Payne, Nora Arnold, and Cornelia Allen set sail on the Cape Fear steamer for Cuba.⁽²⁵⁾ These FBH compatriots were joined in this missionary thrust by Daniel Awrey who made a 7,100 mile trip in 1899. Awrey who had spoken in tongues in 1890, circled the globe in 1909 and participated in a pentecostal world conference in Europe. Awrey returned to the states to take charge of Emmanuel’s Bible School in Beulah, Oklahoma. This school trained several families for the PHC including: Dunlaps, Robert Aarons, Chesters, Reeders, Knights, Taylors, Starks, Odens, Hills, Bealls, Reinkings, Millers, Kennys, Anderson, Dodds, Moores, Bridges, Kerns, Herrells, Starchers, Martins, Colsons, Davises, Peters, Kerseys, Neals, Boles, Quintals, Colliers, Higginbothams, Stewarts, and Thurmans. In 1910/11, Awrey was in India and China with Frank Bartleman, an Azusa St. Revival leader. In 1913, Awrey died in Liberia. Ethel E. Goss’ The Winds of God ⁽²⁶⁾gave high marks to Daniel Awrey:

Daniel Awrey was a world-famous Bible teacher, missionary and traveler. He was a man of cultivation and charm, but in his trips around the world, he used little of the abundant offerings he received for himself. In order to save and give to others, he bought steerage tickets and arranged to forego hotels by sitting up in trains at night. By living austerely, with much fasting, he was able to send thousands of dollars through the years to missionaries who were suffering privations in the field.

The first Holiness Church [PHC] Foreign Mission Board was formed in 1904. It was composed entirely of female saints with Mrs. Hannibal Bizzel of Dunn, Secretary and Treasurer.⁽²⁷⁾ Meanwhile, J.H. King as General Overseer of the Fire-Baptized Holiness Church made appeals for "foreign missions"—meaning perspective missionaries and financial support—in the pages of Live Coals.

In 1916, Mrs. N.J. Holmes singled out Miss Lucy Jones who had already served 14 years as a missionary to China. In 1906, Miss Effie Mae Glover, a student at the Altamont Bible and Missionary Institute, went to Guatemala and stayed for two years. She returned to the states briefly and agreed to marry Amos Bradley,⁽²⁸⁾ a graduate of J.O. McClurkan’s Nashville and Holmes’ Bible schools, on a ship to insure that they would return to Central America. She stayed in Guatemala for 24 years, returning to the states only due to failing health and the Depression. Amos Bradley’s many years (44 by 1962) in Central America⁽²⁹⁾ accounted for the establishment of several Pentecostal Holiness works in Central America.

For the China story, please visit "PHC sponsors first Pentecostal Missionary to China."

Miss Della Gaines went to India in 1910 for the Fire-Baptized Holiness Church. The J.M. Turners would reach India in 1922. Miss Gaines was part of a travelling party that set sail with J.H. King.⁽³⁰⁾ Rev. A.B. Garr and his wife recommended that King should visit Pentecostal mission sites around the world. King left the Falcon Holiness School in January 1910 and got confirmation of his world mission tour while at Texas Holiness University. He wrote in The Bridegroom’s Messenger:

God clearly and miraculously opened the way for me to go with Brother Britton to Greenville, Texas. ... While there God gave me a message in tongues and the full interpretation to the effect that I should leave, or begin to make preparation to leave in the spring.⁽³¹⁾

During this trip (1911), King received independent missionaries already in India, namely Rev. R.E. Massey and Rev. D.S. McHaffey into the PHC.⁽³²⁾ King spent two years outside the United States trying to spread the gospel message. Henry C. King’s 1912/13 stay in Liberia could have brought him into contact with Daniel Awrey.⁽³³⁾

One of the earliest PHC missionaries to Africa was Kenneth E.M. Spooner, originally from the British West Indies. He and his wife arrived in South Africa in 1913. He remainded there until his death in 1937 by which time he had established 60 churches. His wife, Mrs. Geraldine M. Spooner a native of Central America, would remain in Africa until her passing in her 90s.