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.

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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.

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Darrin Rodgers interviews Mildred Duncklee Flach (1922- ) in Grand Forks, ND, July 3, 2007. A native of Bowesmont, North Dakota, Flach went on to serve as an Assemblies of God missionary to Liberia from 1958 to 1989.

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Lillian Riggs is interviewed by Wayne Warner in her home at Scotts Valley, California, November 10, 1986. She is the widow of Ralph M. Riggs, who was general superintendent of the Assemblies of God from 1953-1959.

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Darrin Rodgers, Director of the Flower Pentecostal Heritage Center, discusses the need for Pentecostals to learn from and appreciate their heritage — not so they can live in the past, but in order to move wisely into the future. Having a broader perspective is essential as Pentecostals plot their way forward, thinking critically and creatively in order to reach people in this present age. The Flower Pentecostal Heritage Center is the archives, research center and museum of the Assemblies of God.

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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.

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