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Preserving History ~ Honoring Excellence ~ Connecting Generations
Historical Center for Pentecostal Studies
~The Lines Have Fallen Unto Us In Pleasant Places, Yea,
We Have A Goodly Heritage~
Welcome to the Apostolic Archives International. We hope your visit will be worth the time you spend browsing the treasure-trove of information that has been compiled for your educational purposes!
* Our media library contains over 500,000 recorded sermons on cd & dvd format, spanning fourteen decades, (1900 - 2011).
* The Ministerial Hall of Fame recognizes the lives of outstanding preachers.
* The Who's Who is a biographical collection of ministerial profiles spanning over 100 years of history.
* The historical center contains information concerning the development of modern Pentecostalism in North America.
OUR HISTORY
Dr. Gary W. Garrett
This illustrious institution was created in 1999 by Dr. Gary W. Garrett. The Archives is incorporated in the State of Missouri and recognized as a 501 C (3) not-for-profit library and archive center for the preservation of Pentecostalism and the historic Apostolic Faith Movement.
The Apostolic Archives International is located in the city of Joplin, Missouri...Joplin was the epicenter of a great revival spawned from the ministry of Charles F. Parham in the fall of 1904. m
Just sixty miles North of Joplin is the town of El Dorado Springs, Missouri. This is where Charles Parham first met Mary Arthur in the summer of 1903 at Springs-Park where people came from all around to drink the famous mineral water hoping to find a cure for their infirmities. This timely meeting led to the revival that transpired in Galena, Kansas in the fall of that same year.
Galena, is located just five miles West of down-town Joplin. It was in this town that Parham arrived in the fall of 1903, and preached his first sermon in that town in the home of Mary Arthur. Galena is also the place where Howard Goss first heard the apostolic faith preached by Parham and was converted.
Just sisteen miles West of Joplin is the town of Baxter Springs, Kansas. This is where Parham permantley settled down after his revival crusades in Texas, in 1905-06, and established the permanent headquarters for the apostolic faith movement. Later on, Bethel Bible College was re-established in Baxter Springs. Parham's entire family is buried in that town.
About twenty miles West of Joplin, in the small community of Keelville, Kansas, is where Charles Parham in 1907, built the first Pentecostal church in North America. The regions in and around Joplin are filled with history past concerning the apostolic faith movement.
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