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1985 Interview with Melvin Hodges



Melvin L. Hodges, former missionary to El Salvador, field director of Latin America, professor at AGTS, and author of “The Indigenous Church ” and other missions books, is interviewed by Dr. Gary B. McGee at the Assemblies of God Theological Seminary, Springfield, Missouri, 1985.
ID: V125

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1985 Interview with Henry and Sunshine Ball


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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Top Pentecostal history books in libraries


Next to Assemblies of God Heritage magazine the Bible, what is your favorite reading material? Do you have a top ten list of your all-time favorite books?

We thought it would be interesting to see which Pentecostal history books are most popular in libraries. So, we logged onto FirstSearch (aka WorldCat or OCLC, which is available at your local library) and searched for books with the following terms in their subject headings. The top ten books for each term, in terms of the numbers of libraries holding each book, are below.

Pentecostal history
1. Heaven Below : Early Pentecostals and American Culture / Grant Wacker (Harvard University Press, 2001) 878 libraries
2. Reinventing American Protestantism : Christianity in the New Millennium / Donald E. Miller (University of California Press, 1997) 847 libraries Continue reading

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