REV. HARRY P. LOTT

Harry Pearson Lott, son of Pearson H. and Sarah Manningly Lott, was born 25 May 1872 in Bucks Co., Pa. and died 9 Jan. 1950 in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma.  Between those two dates, like most people, he lived a life of human frailty, religious passion, and ceaseless effort as a minister in first the Fire-Baptized Holiness Association. 

Most accounts of the life of Rev. Harry P. Lott, indicate he came to Oklahoma from Longmont, California, On the 1900 census, there is a Harry P. Lott matching his birth date and place residing in Valverde, Araphoe, Colorado with a wife Emma and children Ruth, Cary J., and a servant Sara Franks. 

About 1907, Lott came to Oklahoma and connected with two other ministers, Richard Baxter Beall and O.C. Wilkins.  On the 1910 Oklahoma City census there is listed an H.P. Lott listed as single but staying with Oscar and May Wilkins at 225 West California.  Both men listed their occupation as Holiness ministers. 

In 1908 or 1909 he was acting superintendent of the Rescue Home for Fallen Women on Maple Street in Oklahoma  City. Matrons Mrs A.L. Warsham and Fannie Waterfield managed the daily operations of the work which sought save young women who had gone astray.  From descriptions of Bishop Muse the clientele were “rescued from sin…and the slime pits of hell”  Local newspapers of the day carried full page ads defending the need for rescue work  due to a loose society, profane activities, alcohol and lusts of the flesh.  Historically, this was also a time of what was called “white slavery” as it was believed many young women were lured or kidnapped into lives of prostitution.

In 1909 he was appointed Ruling Elder of the Oklahoma conference of the Fire-Baptized Holiness church.

Also in 1909, the domestic profile of Lott suffered in a very public manner.  In September, his wife Emma Lott filed a restraining order claiming abuse and neglect by her husband, Harry P. Lott (“Minister’s Wife Restrains Him”, Oklahoman, September 29, 1909, pg.4 and “Minister Sent to a Cell”, Oklahoman, Oct. 3, 1909, pg.31).   He replies later through his lawyers defending himself and his actions. This must have been sufficient because in 1910 he reappointed to Ruling Elder.  

Around 1910-1913 Lott remarried, Lizzie Shomp.   Lizzie or Elizabeth and her mother were charter members of the First Pentecostal Church of Oklahoma City began by Beall, Wilkins and Lott. In 1911 the Fire-Baptized Holiness Church and the Pentecostal Holiness Church merged to form one denomination named the  Pentecostal Holiness Church. Lott has left the now named “Pentecostal Holiness Mission” and is working with an Apostolic church before the start of World War II.

In 1917, Lott founded the Apostolic Faith Church. Since the Capital Hill Full Gospel Church in south Oklahoma City claims him as their founder and has him listed there at this early date, it is assumed they are the same congregation with merely a name change.  He remained there until 1948 when he retired.

He died in January of 1950 and was buried in the Sunnylane Cemetery in Del City, Oklahoma, within the greater Oklahoma City metropolitan area. Several family members are buried nearby.

Charles F. Parham 1915 Oklahoma City

In July of 1915, the Rev. Charles F. Parham was listed as being part of the Apostolic Faith Meetings.  Street meetings were held at Farmers National Bank at 8 p.m. and "consultations and prayer" at 523 5th Street (Oklahoman, July 29, 1915, pg. 14).

The term 'apostolic' could mean many things in the 1890 to 1930 time. It could be used to refer to merely the evangelical fervor of the heritage of the Apostles time. It could be used to refer to a 'full Gospel' understanding of spiritual manifestations. It also came to be associated with "Oneness" theology which rejected the traditional doctrine and baptismal formula of a trinitarian view of the Godhead maintaining that all was in the "Name of Jesus Only".

Due to the largely independent nature of many of the early holiness and Pentecostal groups, many of which rejected formal organization, creeds, and formalized theologies, there could be found instances where there was a mixture of several doctrinal teachings co-existing with varied degrees of comfort and logic. These were termed "wildfire" by many early orthodox leaning preachers and people.  In many areas the lack of rules, regulations, and the emphasis on the individual reflected well the social and political environments swirling around in the larger society making it more difficult to contain when heresy emerged or conflicts in theological doctrines arose.

Other information on the Apostolic Churches at http://www.apostolicarchives.com/ps3.html

PENTECOSTALISM COMES TO OKLAHOMA CITY

The roots of Pentecostalism in Oklahoma are tightly interwoven with the history of Holiness in the region. The Holiness movement sought and encouraged a spiritual reawakening and new dynamic progress.  The search for a spiritual experience both intimate and powerful enough to impact and change lives was seen as the experience of  Sanctification.  This act of God which served to draw the Christian closer to God and empower them for outreach to others was variously interpreted and defined in the groups. Debates can still rage over just how it is defined; is it progressive or instantaneous? Despite these theological nuances, the movement answered needs felt by people for 'something more' than  ritual without meaning or for the absence of anything spiritual in their lives at all.

As early as 1902, there are claims of people who experienced Pentecost in Oklahoma. According to writings by Goff, Campbell, Muse, and others, the time from 1902-1907 was an especially active time for these sporadic Pentecostal episodes.   Joseph Campbell refers to these as raindrops before the "latter rain."  They were in the area of Lamont, Oklahoma in 1905, where the Fire Baptized Holiness Association, later Church, had mission outreach, in Beulah, Oklahoma where a Bible School operated, and other locales. 

Sometime in the years 1905-1906 a group of women in Oklahoma began to intentionally pray for a Pentecostal mission to be opened in the community and united weekly to prayer for that event.

In Beulah, an independent holiness group called the Indian Creek Band and led by the Rev. Frank T. Alexander, purchased land and opened the Beulah Holiness Bible School.

Rev. Richard B. Beall arrived in the City on January 18, 1906 and within four months had organized a Sunday School on South Robinson Street. The initial success began plans of a downtown mission.  As if in answer to those devout prayers, another minister from Colgate, Indian Territory, O.C. Wilkins, arrived in the City. Another minister who had already founded several churches also arrived, Harry P. Lott. 

In May of 1907, Fire Baptized Holiness leader J.H. King had arrived in Lamont, Oklahoma to conduct a revival where "scores of people" (Campbell, 210) received the experience and then returned to other locales with the message of Pentecost.  This renewed the flagging Fire Baptized Holiness work in the state (active since before 1900) and initiated many developments around the region. 

That summer of 1907, members of that Indian Creek Band at Beulah came to the Lamont revival and carried the experience back to the school and that region. A minister named Robinson was invited to come preach and the first in Beulah to receive the experience was an elderly woman named McClung.

In the City, all of these "young men" who had felt drawn to come to Oklahoma City had been reading of the Asuza Street Revival in the "Way of Faith" periodical by J.M. Pike. They were motivated to begin a revival and a woman named Mrs. Mary A. Sperry opened her home for "tarrying services" to pray for the revival. In the newly rented former Blue Front Saloon, 7 Grand Street, the revival services began and by August of 1907, all three men had received the Pentecostal experience.

In 1909 at Lamont, Harry P. Lott was named ruling elder of the newly reorganized Fire Baptised Holiness Association work in the state. In October of that year, Lott brought the Oklahoma City Mission into the Fire Baptized Association. It was organized, despite some who did not believe in such organization, with 39 chapter members. Some of these included: Mary Edy, G.W. Thompson, Grace Woffard,  Mother Lay, Mrs. Mary A. Sperry., Terrie J. Walker, Mrs. J.T. Ellis, Mrs. Shomp,  Mrs. Harry P. Lott (Lizzie Shomp), Grace Bergle Keller, Effie Allen,  Mrs. Roe, Newton Taylor Morgan, Oscar C. Wilkins, J.F. Hughes, and Brother Miller. There were no doubt others unknown. Campbell notes many had issues with fears of organization in general as being a deterrent to spiritual vigor and a social trait of those in the west toward more independent thinking and action as contributing to the lack of some of the early churches and groups to survive. With no organized structure, and accompanying doctrinal and operational foundations, they were often subject to error, heresy and power struggles between conflicting views.

In 1911 the Fire Baptized Holiness Church with churches in Iowa, Kansas, Texas, Oklahoma, and elsewhere would unite with the southeastern based, Pentecostal Holiness Church to form the new Pentecostal Holiness Church.  In Oklahoma, this meant some shuffling as people left to form independent groups, joined other assemblies, or new churches merged under the newly minted denomination.  The old Blue Front Saloon Mission, the Pentecostal Mission, was now on its way to being the First Pentecostal Holiness Church of Oklahoma City.

Sources: Campbell, Joseph E.. The Pentecostal Holiness Church, 1898-1948. Pentecostal Holiness Publishing House, 1951 contains many details, I have attempted to place them in some chronological order as they influenced the Oklahoma City Mission which would become the First Pentecostal Holiness Church..  Anyone with photos of these old Pentecostal churches in Oklahoma City is invited to send copies to infobrarian@yahoo.com, along with biographical information or stories of those 1905 - 1950 years.

FIRST PENTECOSTAL HOLINESS CHURCH, OKLAHOMA CITY

ca 2000 NW9 & Blackwelder

Established in 1907  (A Work in Progress - Add information via the contacts or email infobrarian@yahoo.com)

First location: Blue Front Saloon building on the corner of Grand Avenue and Santa Fe (7 Grand Avenue) in downtown Oklahoma City.  Richard B. Beall (1878-1959) was listed in his obituary of Jan. 16, 1959 as the first pastor (using the address of the 423 W.  California location); others involved in opening the church were Oscar C. Wilkins and Harry P. Lott (image). Census records indicate they either identified themselves, Wilkins and Lott, as "holiness ministers" or were identified as such by the census taker. Histories by Dan Muse, Campbell and others, indicate they rented the building for about $40 a month in the late spring or early summer of 1907 and by late summer were holding "Azusa Street" style Pentecostal services.

Second location: date of move to this location unknown. In May of 1917 the "Pentecostal Holiness Mission" is at 317 W. California ("Churches", Oklahoman, May 31,1914, pg. 6). Services were listed as Sunday School at 2:30 p.m.. Preaching 3:30 and meetings Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday nights.

Third location:  Date of the move to this location is unknown. 423 W. California, featuring a neon "Jesus Saves" sign over the front entrance. Nearby were a tin shop and the old Central Fire Station according to Steps to the Sun by Margaret Muse Oden. In 1926 J.H. King held a Bible Conference there.

Fourth location: 1701 NW 9th (Corner of NW 9th and Blackwelder)

A June 6, 1948 issue of the Oklahoman indicates a  p.m. Sunday ground-breaking service (pg.17). Rev. S.N. Greene was pastor and missionary J.W. Brooks of South Africa and Southwestern College President Dr. R.O. Corvin would give short stalks. The date the church actually began to hold services is unknown.

ROSTER OF PASTORS:

Beall, Richard Baxter (1878, Ks - 1959,Ok), 1907 - ?.   He had originally come to OKC in 1903 and began a Sunday School work, met Wilkins and Lott and formed the Mission on  Grand Avenue in the old saloon.  He later went on to found the Full Gospel Temple, 410 SW 25 and by 1950 when he retired the church may have been located at 313 SW 6 ("Rev. R.B Beall Is Dead at 80", Oklahoman, Jan. 16, 1959, pg.3)

Lott, Harry P. (1907- ca.1917)- In 1917 he left to found the Capital Hill Full Gospel Church in the suburb of Capital Hill, southwest of Oklahoma but was quickly consumed by the metropolitan area. He is listed in newspapers of 1919 as pastor of Apostolic Faith Church,South Oklahoma Avenue and East B Avenue,East Capital Hill, which may be an earlier name of the CHFGC. 

Oden, Marvin (  )- ca. 1920's

Aaron, Thomas Lee, Ph.D. (1897-1951) - A news account locates him in 1926 as pastor of the First Church, 423 W. California.  He went on to become President of Kings' College, Kingfisher and then Emmanuel College in Franklin Springs, Georgia.

Muse, Dan T., Bishop ( 1882-1950) -  ca. 1920's-1930's ; identified in a 1929 news article as pastor.

Greene, S.N. (  )- ca. 1948; noted for his publication and editing of various songbooks and other musical activities.

Goad, Richard, Sr. - ca,  ? to  ca. 1980

Davenport, James D.  ca. ? - 1980

Hudson, Marvin J., D.Min. - ca. 1980-1983 - A college student he went on to be a professor of Greek and Biblical studies.

1701 NW 9th, ca. 1983

Note: Anyone having images of this church willing to share from the early days, please send as a .jpg to infobrarianATyahoo.com

STEPS TO THE SUN

In 1955, Margaret Muse Oden, daughter of the Pentecostal Holiness Bishop, Daniel Thomas Muse, 1886-1950, wrote personal rembrances of her father in a book titled, Steps to the Sun (PHC Publishing House).

The introduction was by G.H. Montgomery, editor of the P.H.C. Advocate.  His comments open by saying, "History", someone said, "is made up of the individual stories of many people."

The contents reveal a flow of a life story touching many others and in the process preserving some rare history.

Contents:

• Rise and Shine
• Oh Brother!
• California Street and Printer's Ink.  
• Clay Hills,A T-Model and the Gospel
• Shepherd of a New Flock
• Seeing the Country- Eating fried chicken
• The Bishop -
• Tributes following his death
• Short Scriptural comments by Bishop Muse

California Street was the location of the First Pentecostal Holiness Church in Oklahoma City.  The first location was in the old Blue Front Saloon and there the pastor Harry P. Lott handed a broom to a young man just moved up from Boyd, Texas.

He soon put to work his skills as a typesetter as well and would do so for many years. He published in the next few years a newspaper/letter called, "Faith".  He wrote articles for the denominational papers (i.e., Advocate, Youth Leader, Pentecostal Pulpit, etc.)

The church grew and moved a little ways down the street to the area of the Central Fire Station, a tin shop, and a house serving as the parsonage at 526 W. California.  A vacant lot now, it once held a 2-story oldfashioned house with a large wrap around porch which allowed access to the parlor on the west side.  In another twenty years the church would leave its second building, the red brick building on California with its neon "Jesus Saves" sign, and would be several miles further west in a modern, blonde brick ediface at the corner of NW 9th and Blackwelder.

As janitor the young Dan T. Muse worked hard and in the 1920's he began preaching and was re-assigned to his old church as pastor.  Then as Superintendent of the Oklahoma Conference and then as Bishop of the denomination.

As Oden recounts these - mostly first person memories - of the sights, sounds, and emotions of early day Oklahoma in the Pentecostal Holiness Church there is a great insight in to the values, motivations, experiences, hardships, and challenges of early day citizens and pastoral families in the 1920-1950 time frame.

More than just a book about a church leader, this volume also includes rare glimpses of live in a time and place now vastly changed.  As such, it retains a valuable place in the works useful to church historians but also social historians as well.

WRITERS: Focus on Margaret Muse Oden (1917-2002)

The Oden family (Courtesy of the SCU Archives)

One of the first female writers to consistently appear in Pentecostal Holiness Church denominational pages was Margaret Muse Oden.  Her love for writing, and creative expression in general, meant she would logically gravitate toward music, art, and writing. That is exactly what she did mastering and teaching the organ and piano, attaining teaching level mastery of China painting, and developing skills in both editing and writing.

On July 20, 1916, the home of Daniel Thomas and Margaret Adelaide Scott Muse welcomed into their simple home a baby girl, Margaret Pearl Muse.   In the 1920, U.S. Federal Census for Oklahoma the family was residing at 526 California Street.  In 1927, her father would be called to pastor the church where he had begun working in 1907 as a janitor. The earliest First P.H. Church of Oklahoma City was located along two stretches of California street.  Later it moved to NW 9th and Blackwelder.

In the 1930 U.S. Federal census for Oklahoma, they were living at 1812 NW 10th Street (although subsequent news accounts indicate it was NW 2nd Street). The family now included Dan, Addie, Scott, Margaret. Both of her parents listed their occupation as ministers with the Pentecostal Holiness Church.

In 1934, her father was appointed superintendent of the Western District of the Oklahoma Conference of the P.H. Church. In the late 1930's,  Margaret goes to school at the denominational facility, Kings College, in Kingfisher. Later she will go on to Oklahoma City University for a music teaching certificate. 

In the mid-1940’s she is teaching piano and organ at Southwestern. During that time she also helps the school launch a student newsletter, “The ROC.”  She also wrote some articles in the alumni newsletters and magazines beginning in this period. Her family was used as illustration for one such writing/publishing project.

In the 1950’s she begins doing the Women's Auxiliary column in the Pentecostal Holiness Advocate.  In 1955 she published Steps to the Sun, an obvious memorial to her beloved late father, Bishop Dan T. Muse.  She also wrote a short work on the subject of Christian Education and life called, God's Recipe for Life, which was published by Advocate Press sometime in the 1950's. 

In the 1960's through 1970's she also worked editing publications for both the Oral Roberts and T.L. Osborne organizations in Tulsa, Oklahoma.  She is also by the 1960’s-70’ editing the youth (Reach) and women’s magazines (Helping Hand) of the Pentecostal Holiness Church.

Over the next decades she edited a great variety of works for many people, co-writing a song, and becoming a gifted and expert china painter. 

In 1979 her husband Burney Oden died at age 68, his obituary indicated he had been a professional tile layer.

In the early to mid 1980’s she assumed the new role of archivist for the  Pentecostal Holiness Church denomination. The ARC (Archives and Record Center) took shape under her direction. Her energy and vision brought form to the abstract concept of collecting history.  She reveled in the opportunity to meet old friends, interview people, and write  about the history she was discovering.  Many crucial early historic records, narratives, and images were preserved due largely to both her long connection to the church and her high profile as daughter of a beloved Bishop and well known woman of words in her own right.

In 1985, she married once more in Oklahoma City to Woodard Glenn Drum. The November wedding took place in the church named in honor of her father, Muse Memorial Church, with her son Dan Oden and daughter Sharon Hall officiating.  The couple went to live in Franklin Springs, Georgia.   Drum died in 2001 and the next year, in 2002, Margaret followed, dying January 5 in Merrimack, NH.

In a time of personal and family growth, in those booming and blossoming post World War II days,  Oden's columns, devotions, and inspired work helped bring human interest and creativity to numerous publications. Most importantly she was able to engage a generation of people within the context of a maturing Pentecostal organization. She assumes the position of being one of  the first significant female writers in the Pentecostal Holiness Church. She was a person who wrote for the sake of both exercising her imagination and expressing her heart. 

Some Sources:

"Drum-Oden". Oklahoman, (Nov. 30, 1985):15.

"Margaret Muse Oden Drum Obituary." Oklahoman, (January 2002).

Oden, Margaret Muse. God's Recipe for Life. Advocate Press, 195?.

Oden, Margaret Muse. Steps to the Sun. Advocate Press, 1955.

Oden, Margaret Muse; Metzger Robert Douglas, Rev. S.N. Greene. Job's God is True. AIM High Music Company c/o BMG Music Publishing, Beverly Hills, CA. (www.ascap.com)

'SCRIPTURAL HOLINESS' AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE

After promoting the new biography on British born scholar Noel Brooks, we received many comments. Many wished to know where his early noted work Scriptural Holiness might be purchased.  In response to those we are sharing this information.

Noel Brooks authored Scriptural Holiness in the early 1960's and it quickly attained the level of a classic among Holiness and Pentecostal groups. The ability of this small volume to speak across theological and denominational lines is a testament to the sound scholarship and Biblical interpretation used by Brooks.   LifeSprings of Franklin Springs, Georgia, currently has this book available for purchase at $7.95.

http://www.lifespringsresources.com/products/4602020/scriptural-holiness/

WOMEN PREACHING - R. B. Hayes

In the July 11, 1918 issue of the Pentecostal Holiness Advocate, there is an article by early Pentecostal pioneer, Richard Baxter Hayes. Son of Rev. Hamilton N. Hayes, he had been a minister in the Fire Baptized Holiness Church and then an evangelist for many years in the Pentecostal Holiness.  He died in in July 1937 and Bishop J.H. King and Paul F. Beacham led the service. 

"We see by all the scriptures that there have been women preachers all along the way, and we notice in every holiness movement, as long as the power and fire fell and they kept red hot for God, women preachers were in the crowd...just as soon as they backslide and compromise and tone down, they want to elbow off the women preachers." (pg. 6)

"...in every great holiness movement when the saints are red hot for God and the burden of the lost upon them, they lose sight of churchanity, sectarianism, the world, and the only burden of their hearts is to get souls saved and sanctified and filled with the Holy Ghost." (pg.6).

Such stalwart support for the disenfranchised was not new to Hayes.  Randall J.Stephens  recounts some of the abuses he was subject to for his racial inclusiveness in southern evangelism tours during "Jim Crow".

POETS OF PENTECOSTALISM

Velma Cochren Terry (1914-1999), a Pentecostal Poet.

Born on the wind swept plains of middle Kansas was married at age 15. She was a mother to ten children of which only seven survived infancy.  She raised five children by herself after being deserted by her first husband. During WW2 - while a 'Rosie the Riveter" - she met the man she would marry after the war and have five more children. 

She first attended a Pentecostal church in the 1940's in Nebraska (Church of God and Foursquare congregations).  She became a member of the Pentecostal Holiness Church under the ministry of Rev. Sally Flippin in Wichita, Kansas in the early 1950's. She was a charter member of churches in Wichita and Wellington, Kansas (under Sally Flippin, Bill and Evelyn Thompson, Pastor Burchett and Hoyle Baker). 

She trained as a Nurses Aide later in life and served as special care attendent at local hospitals and in private care. 

Velma Cochren Terry, ca. 1950

Velma's first poem was published in the church newsletter, then she was published in a local newspaper, and then notebooks filled and kept secreted away.  She continued to live life, became a mother and grandmother and friend to many.

In 1972, she and her husband retired to the Ozarks and she published two books of poetry before the death of her husband and her own subsequent failing health. She lived to see almost all of her children accept Christ, become active in church and several in ministry. She saw her grandchildren being raised in Christian homes. She lived to see the fulfilment of her prayers that God would care for, protect, and guide each of her children.

Finally, encouraged to dust them off she put together Sunshine and Shadows in 1983. It was just a simple little book of her writings penned in the still and silent hours of night when all was quiet.

Conceived as a simple gift to family and friends...the response was impressive for a simple little book. Local pastors read her poems in their pulpits, teachers in their classes, and people in their home. A local Christian radio program regularly read her poems over the air. She was encouraged by how her simple verses had found an audience. Her deep faith and honest search for answers to life's challenges reflected her Pentecostal roots and resonated with readers.

A second collection appeared in 1983, Heart Talks and it was followed by Valley of Flowers in 1995 (reprinted three times through 1996). More poems, richer and more complex, revealing her growth as a poet, waited to be shared. A fourth one, Silver Linings, was planned but a massive stroke halted that project as she lost sight in one eye, a long recovery and reduced capacities. In October of 1999 she passed away.

In 2010, her daughter, Marilyn A. Hudson, compiled the best of her work and added a biographical context and published, In Her Own Words: The Inspirational Poetry of Velma Terry (Whorl Books).

WOMAN LED CANADIAN SCHOOL IN 1945

The Novermber 29, 1945 issue of the Pentecostal Holiness Advocate carries an article by J.A. Synan, "Bible Institute Opens in British Columbia" (pg. 7).  The Pacific Coast Bible Institute was dedicated with Rev. Harold Paul , superintendent of the B.C. conference in attendance with a local pastor Miss Elsie Cartmell (who was also sect-treas of the new school) and local and regional government representatives.

Leadership for the school was Miss Florence O. Hamilton (Principal), Rev. C.W. Serle (Asst. Principal and Dean), and Rev. J.W. Bruce (Intructor).  The school was located in the center of Chilliwack, in the Fraser River Valley.

Hamilton had graduated from Holmes Bible College, served 17 years as a missionary to China and had previous experience as an assistant principal prior to that.  Searle was an Oxford graduate and Anglican clergy, while Bruce had been a Methodist minister.

This now may constitute the earliest administrative role for a woman in education in the PHC, predating the presidency of Emma Crouch in the 1980's in central Canada and 2011 of Adrian Hinkle to the role of Dean of the Department of Professional Studies at Southwestern Christian University in Bethany, Oklahoma.

Society of Biblical Literature Meeting, 2012

The SBL Annual Meeting is the largest gathering of biblical scholars in the world. Each meeting showcases the latest in biblical research, fosters collegial contacts, advances research, and focuses on issues of the profession. The 2012 event will be in Chicago Nov. 17-20, 2012.

One of the world's largest exhibits of books and digital resources for biblical studies is on display at the congress. At this meeting, scholars benefit from sessions on religion, philosophy, ethics, and diverse religious traditions.

The call for papers for this year's conference is now closed but here are the dates/locations for future events:

Baltimore, MD	November 23-26, 2013
San Diego, CA	November 22-25, 2014
Atlanta, GA	November 21-24, 2015

http://www.sbl-site.org/meetings/annualmeeting.aspx

SOCIETY FOR PENTECOSTAL STUDIES - CALL FOR PAPERS

The Society for Pentecostal Studies will hold their 42nd Annual Meeting, in conjunction with the Wesleyan Theological Society, hosted by Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, WA, March 21-23, 2013.  The theme of the event is "Holiness."  Information about their call for papers may be found here.

Proposals are due to the appropriate Interest Group Leader (IGL) no later than June 30, 2012. Each proposal will be acknowledged by email from the IGL or chair within two weeks of submission. 

Membership information on the society is available here.

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Noel Brooks Memorial Conference Book Series

A scholarly multi-disciplinary conference in honor of the pastor, educator, writer, and theologian, Noel Brooks (1914-2006).

Description:

A series of books containing scholarly articles related to the general themes of each conference. Each book will bear the series title: “The Noel Brooks Memorial Conference Series” and a number. The main title will reflect the theme or some element of it.

2012: “Merging Faith and Learning”    DEADLINE June 15, 2012

2013: “Transformations”                      DEADLINE June 15, 2013

2014: “Centennial” and the theme of legacy  DEADLINE June 15,2014

Mission:

To promote the Conference, to encourage discussion on the themes, and to foster scholarship.

Funds:

Monies generated from any sales will go into a special "Noel Brooks Conference‟ fund to help defray costs for future events. Funds over the cost of the conference in any calendar year will go into a fund to support and maintain the special collections and archive of the SCU Library.

Requirements:

All attendees will have first refusal for inclusion in the anthology. Open submissions meeting the specifications will also be considered.

Submit -

1. Signed release form (online; maybe signed, scanned and emailed or sent via standard mail); 
2. Article from 10-20 pages in length, with endnotes; electronic submissions ONLY; APA, MLA or Turabian formatting permitted; 
3. 12 point font, New Times Roman or Tahoma; 
4. Include an abstract (1 paragraph);
5. Inclusion of a short biographical paragraph (see sample).

Short Biographical Paragraph (no more than 10 sentences):

Jane Doe, Ph.D. Theology, Elizabeth College. Currently she serves on the faculty of Jones University. [Add something here such as also an ordained minister with the XYZ Church or some other academic work or group to which you belong]. Current research interests include [ ]. Previous publications include [ ]. Jane Doe may be contacted at [email].

Abstract (1 paragraph of about 10 sentences)

An abstract usually acts as a summary of work already completed and is used by prospective readers to decide whether or not to read the entire text. It should present the thesis and address some information questions: What was your question -Why did you do this study or project? What did you do and how? What did you find? What do your findings mean?

RELEASE FORM

A Non-exclusive release form will be required of all authors for publication. This form grants permission for publication of the paper in the conference book series and/or online. After that, all rights revert to author for subsequent publication or submission elsewhere.

FOR MORE INFORMATION: Contact the event planner, Marilyn A. Hudson, MLIS or email marilyn.hudson@swcu.edu