IPHC Church Manual - Extension Loan Fund

Introduction
the Pentecostal baptism in the Holy Spirit in the Azusa Street
mission.
In a historic meeting in Dunn, North Carolina, in January 1907,
Cashwell led many of the leaders of the Southern Holiness
Movement into the Pentecostal experience. Soon both the
Holiness Church of North Carolina and the Fire-Baptized Holiness
Church embraced the doctrine of the baptism in the Holy Ghost,
evidenced by speaking in tongues.
In the next few years a strong feeling arose among the
members of both organizations that the two groups should unite.
Both were preaching the same basic doctrines, were operating in
the same territory, and had experienced a growing fellowship over
the years. After taking several preliminary steps during 1909 and
1910, these two groups consolidated in 1911.
The merger took place on January 30, 1911, in the octagonshaped
Pentecostal Holiness Church building at Falcon, North
Carolina. Here duly elected delegates from the Pentecostal
Holiness Church and the Fire-Baptized Holiness Church met for
the purpose of effecting a consolidation of the two bodies.
Although the Fire-Baptized Holiness Church was much larger, the
new organization adopted the name “Pentecostal Holiness
Church.” G. F. Taylor, F. M. Britton, and J. A. Culbreth served as
the committee to draw up the Discipline that became the basis
upon which the consolidation was made. The first General
Superintendent of the united church was Samuel Daniel Page.
Organizational Developments
The first General Conference after the merger was held at
Toccoa, Georgia, in 1913, at which time the change from biennial
to quadrennial meetings was effected. At the time of the merger,
missionaries sent by both churches already had opened fields in
Hong Kong, China, Africa, and India.
In 1915 at Canon, Georgia, the Tabernacle Pentecostal
Church consolidated with the Pentecostal Holiness Church. This
merger brought the Holmes Bible and Missionary Institute of
Greenville, South Carolina, into the fellowship of the church.
The founder of both the Tabernacle Pentecostal Church and the
Bible Institute was Nickels John Holmes of Greenville.
Early missions work of the combined churches included the
Hong Kong field begun by Anna Dean in 1909, the Indian field
opened by Della Gaines in 1910, the South African field started by
J. O. Lehman in 1913, and the Central American field opened by
17