Posted by ifphc on 15th June 2008
Darrin Rodgers interviews Chaplain Emanuel Williams in Springfield, Missouri, May 12, 2008.
Chaplain Williams has served as an endorsed healthcare chaplain with the Assemblies of God since 1988 and currently lives in the Atlanta, Georgia area. This interview covers not only his recent chaplaincy ministry, but also his Pentecostal background in San Francisco, California. As a youth, he grew up in the church pastored by Cornelia Jones Robertson, and he is also a close friend of her grandson, Bob Harrison. Robertson became, in 1923, one of the earliest African-Americans ordained by the Assemblies of God. She is remembered for the rescue mission that she pastored in the Barbary Coast area of San Francisco, known as the Pacific Street Mission, and she later pastored the Emmanuel Pentecostal Holiness Church, which was successively affiliated with the United Holy Church, Mount Calvary of the Pentecostal Faith Church (a New York-based church led by Mother Horn), and the Open Bible Standard Churches. Harrison is best-known for breaking the color barrier in the Assemblies of God in 1962, when General Superintendent Thomas F. Zimmerman invited him to become an ordained minister, thus overturning a longstanding policy denying ordination to African-Americans.
ID: pending
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Posted by ifphc on 27th November 2007
Darrin Rodgers interviews Fred Smolchuck (1917- ) in Springfield, Missouri, May 25, 2006. The son of Ukrainian immigrants to America, Smolchuck was a founding member of the Ukrainian Branch of the Assemblies of God, he served as a pastor and district official in Michigan, and he authored 16 books. His life is inextricably intertwined with the history of the Slavic churches in the Assemblies of God.
ID: CD0059
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Posted by ifphc on 16th October 2006
Warren Grant interviews James E. Hamill, pastor of First Assembly of God (Memphis, TN), on the occasion of his 50th anniversary in the ministry on August 1, 1980.
ID: V009
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Posted by ifphc on 16th October 2006
Wayne E. Warner interviews Joseph K. Williams, former instructor at Southwestern Assemblies of God College (Waxahachie, TX), January 21, 1982.
ID: V019 ; T681
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Posted by ifphc on 16th October 2006
Wayne E. Warner interviews Irene Pearlman, widow of Myer Pearlman and daughter of F. A. Graves, in Springfield, Missouri, January 22, 1981.
ID: V019
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Posted by ifphc on 16th October 2006
Wayne E. Warner interviews Ernest S. Williams, former general superintendent, about his life and ministry, his relationship with early Pentecostals, and his work with the Assemblies of God, September 29, 1979.
ID: T093
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Posted by ifphc on 13th October 2006
Joseph Wannenmacher, former pastor of Calvary Assembly of God (Milwaukee, WI) and former superintendent of the Hungarian Branch of the Assemblies of God, is interview by his son, Philip Wannenmacher, in Springfield, Missouri, in 1986.
ID: V109 ; T2290
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Posted by ifphc on 13th October 2006
Missionary Harold Carpenter interviews Henry and Sunshine Ball in Springfield, Missouri, about their work among Hispanics, April 11, 1985. They discuss their early lives as well as ministry in Chile, the Mexican border, and establishing Latin American Bible Institute (San Antonio, TX) and VIDA (now Life Publishers International).
ID: V045
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Posted by ifphc on 13th October 2006
Dr. Delbert H. Tarr interviews “Mother” Alice Reynolds Flower, widow of J. Roswell Flower, at the Assemblies of God Graduate School, Springfield, Missouri, May 7, 1980. She tells about the early Pentecostal movement and the founding of the Assemblies of God.
ID: V008
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