Carrie Judd Montgomery 2012 J. Roswell Flower Chi Alpha Volume 32 German District Mary Craig Juan L. Lugo Statement of Fundamental Truths Contributing to the FPHC 4 endowment You may wish to consider making a financial contribution to the Flower Pentecostal Heritage Center endowment to help ensure the long-term future of this ministry of remembrance. You can give needed support for the Flower Pentecostal Heritage Center by making a gift of cash or property or simply by including the following words in your will: I give, devise, and bequeath to the Assemblies of God Foun- dation, 1445 N. Boonville Ave., Springfield, MO 65802 (insert amount being given here) to be used to support the ministry of the Flower Pentecostal Heritage Center. Bequests are free of estate tax, and can substantially Supporting the Wayne Warner reduce the amount of your assets claimed by the govern- 3 Research Fellowship ment. A bequest can be a specific dollar amount, a specific piece of property, a percentage of an estate, or all or part of the residue of an estate. You can also name the Flower Wayne Warner, former director of Pentecostal Heritage Center as a contingency beneficiary the Flower Pentecostal Heritage Center in the event someone named in your will is no longer liv- (1980-2005), is a familiar name across ing. It is recommended that an attorney help in drafting or the Assemblies of God. Under his lead- amending a will. ership, the Center became a leading Christian archives and developed one of the largest and most accessible collections of Pen- tecostal historical materials in the world. He was the Please contact me if you would like to dis- founding editor of Assemblies of God Heritage and cuss how you can help us to preserve and share has authored or compiled eleven books and count- our Pentecostal heritage with future generations. less articles. In October 2006, the leadership of the Assemblies Thank you for your dedication to God and to the of God established the Wayne Warner Research Fel- Assemblies of God! lowship, an endowed program designed to encourage faculty, independent researchers, and students to use and publish from the Center’s rich holdings. The pro- gram will award research and travel grants to a lim- Darrin J. Rodgers, M.A., J.D. ited number of researchers each year whose research email: [email protected] concerning Assemblies of God history is likely to be published and to benefit our Fellowship. Have you been encouraged by Wayne’s writings or friendship? Do you appreciate our Assemblies of God heritage? By making a financial contribution to the Flower Pentecostal Heritage Center Warner Fellowship, you will honor Wayne’s significant 1445 N. Boonville Ave. contribution to the preservation and understanding of Springfield, MO 65802 USA Assemblies of God history, and you will encourage phone: (417) 862-2781 (877) 840-5200 (toll free) scholarship in the field of Pentecostal history. • web: www.iFPHC.org Published annually by The Flower Pentecostal Heritage Center 1445 N. Boonville Ave. Springfield, MO 65802-1894 USA Phone: 417-862-1447, ext. 4400 Fax: 417-862-6203 Toll Free: 877-840-5200 Email: [email protected] Website: www.iFPHC.org ISSN 0896-4395 2012 Vol. 32 PUBLISHED BY THE FLOWER PENTECOSTAL HERITAGE CENTER Darrin J. Rodgers EDITOR AND DIRECTOR 4 Carrie Judd Montgomery This prominent evangelist had a passion for healing and the Joyce E. Lee fullness of the Spirit. ARCHIVIST BY JENNIFER A. MISKOV Glenn W. Gohr REFERENCE ARCHIVIST AND COPY EDITOR William J. Molenaar 14 J. Roswell Flower: Pentecostal SPECIAL PROJECTS COORDINATOR Servant and Statesman A heartwarming account of an Assemblies of God founder Sharon L. Rasnake and leader. ADMINISTRATIVE COORDINATOR BY DAVID RINGER Joshua D. Thomassen HERITAGE DESIGNER 24 The German District: Ninety Years Wayne E. Warner FOUNDING EDITOR and Counting German-Americans have contributed significantly to the Price: $8.00 development of the Assemblies of God. BY TIM SPRECHER AND JOSHUA ZIEFLE Heritage is indexed in the ATLA Religion Database, published by the American Theological Library 32 Juan L. Lugo’s Legacy: Puerto Association, 250 S. Wacker Dr., Rican Pentecostalism 16th Flr., Chicago, IL 60606 A large segment of Spanish-speaking Pentecostalism traces E-mail: [email protected] its roots to this pioneer. Web: www.atla.com BY BENJAMÍN ALICEA-LUGO ATLA Religion Database (RDB) is available on CD-ROM and US MARC format directly from ATLA, as well 42 Chi Alpha: Reconciling Students as online through five aggregators: to Christ OCLC’s FirstSearch, EBSCO This ministry has been making disciples on college campuses Information Services, SilverPlatter, for almost 60 years. Ovid Technologies, and Cambridge BY SARAH MALCOLM Scientific Abstracts. Microfilm of Heritage is available from Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), P.O. Box 30183, 5420 N. E. Glisan, 52 An Under-Sung Heroine: Mary Craig, Portland, OR 97294-3183. Heritage Founder of Bethany University on CD is available from the Flower The neglected story of an inspiring female educator and Pentecostal Heritage Center. gospel worker. BY ABRAHAM RUELAS © Copyright 2012 by Gospel Publishing House, 1445 N. Boonville Ave., Springfield, MO 65802-1894 60 The Historical Development of the Statement of Fundamental Truths POSTMASTER: Send address An historical overview of the “basis of fellowship” of the change to Heritage, 1445 N. Boonville Assemblies of God. Ave., Springfield, MO 65802-1894 BY GLENN W. GOHR 2 From the Editor 67 Resources 73 Acquisitions Front cover: Carrie Judd Montgomery, 1910. From the Editor: The Future of Pentecostalism By Darrin J. Rodgers Will the Pentecostal movement follow “the path of gradual Today’s Pentecostals would do surrender to carnal forces” like most Christian renewal move- well to do some soul-searching and ments before it?1 This question, posed in 1953 by former General to ask questions like those posed by Superintendent W. T. Gaston, remains strikingly relevant. Gaston and Gee. Spiritual vigilance — recogniz- According to Gaston, history’s cerned those who promoted a “pros- ing all of life as a great spiritual bat- “tragic lesson” is that a church’s perity gospel,” his observations have tle — is woven throughout the fabric solid foundation does not prevent a broader application. Throughout of our Pentecostal heritage. As you corruption from “fleshly elements history, churches have demonstrated read the sacred stories of Assemblies within.” He offered this warning at a tendency to spiritually stray. There of God pioneers on the following a time when certain media-savvy has always been a need for voices pages, I hope you will be inspired Pentecostal healing evangelists had to prophetically call believers to be by their faithfulness. They sacrificed been exposed for their ungodly life- faithful. greatly, accomplishing so much with styles, but who continued to promote Another such voice was British so little. themselves and their unbiblical mes- Assemblies of God leader Donald I pray that our Pentecostal pri- sage that God guarantees financial Gee. In 1942, he asked this ques- ority remains on the spiritual life prosperity to believers. tion: “Is our modern revival deep — which is lived out in both purity Gaston suggested, “If we are to enough?”2 of heart and power for witness. If have a future that is better or even Like Gaston, Gee was concerned younger Pentecostals heed this les- comparable and worthy of our past, for the future of the Pentecostal son from older Pentecostals, the we will need to learn over again church. He wrote, “Everywhere I future of the church will be in good some of the lessons of yesterday.” go I find indications of shallowness. hands. One of the important lessons to The modern revival is very bright rediscover, he wrote, was the impor- and happy, but I fear it is also very tance of promoting “pure, undefiled” shallow, and I am deeply concerned Darrin J. Rodgers, M.A., J.D., is religion. about that because I do not believe director of the Flower Pentecostal Heritage Center and editor of He recalled the “utter disregard that which satisfies the heart of God Heritage magazine. for poverty or wealth or station in is shallow.” life” that he witnessed in the early While Gee praised the positive NOTES Pentecostal movement: “Completely aspects of the Pentecostal movement satisfied without the world’s glit- of his day, he also challenged readers 1W. T. Gaston, “Guarding our Priceless tering tinsel, and content to be the to not be satisfied with a superficial Heritage,” Pentecostal Evangel, August objects of its scornful hatred, those faith. Instead, he admonished believ- 16, 1953, 3-4, 11. Gaston served as general rugged pioneers had something that ers to seek a “revival of repentance” superintendent from 1925 to 1929. 2Donald Gee, “Is Our Modern Revival Deep made them attractive and convinc- — which includes a sense of broken- Enough? Spiritual Shallowness Due to Lack ing.” ness over sin and a full commitment of Repentance,” Pentecostal Evangel, August 8, 1942, 2-3. While Gaston’s writing con- to Christ and His mission. 2 AG HERITAGE 2012 Donation of Patterson Papers Spurs Cooperation The 2011 edition of Assemblies of cation and historical archives.” God Heritage announced the donation Mary P. Patterson’s vision of coop- of the personal papers of Bishop J. O. eration has been coming to fruition in Patterson, Sr. to the Flower Pentecostal amazing ways. Heritage Center. Patterson served as On March 9, 2011, Patterson and Mother Mary P. Patterson and Presiding Bishop of the Church of God FPHC Director Darrin Rodgers led a Evangel University professor in Christ (COGIC) from 1968 to 1989. tour of COGIC holy sites in Lexington, Martin Mittelstadt, visiting the historic Saints Academy, Lexington, His widow, Mother Mary P. Patterson, Mississippi and Memphis, Tennessee.