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Rev. Johnny Hair

Independant Ministry

1942 ~ Present

Rev. Johnny Hair was born January 27, 1942. He received the baptism of the Holy Ghost in 1961 at the First Pentecostal Church in Homestead, Florida, under the ministry of C.M. Duplissy.

He was called to preach in 1963, and evangelized for eight years. He now pastors the First Apostolic church in Lake Charles, Louisiana.

During his years as an evangelist he was known as "Johnny Hair from everywhere". With his flamboyant style of walking the pews, and running the asiles as he preached, Bro. Hair was able to reach the sinner, the backslider, the luke-warm, and the consecrated with his message of hope. Audio Recordings of Johnny Hair are available in the audio library of the Apostolic Archives International.

Rev. J.L. Hall United Pentecostal Church International   Over the past forty years, Bro. J. L. Hall has been a leader in the United Pentecostal Church International. He has well served the apostolic movement as a teacher, pastor, preacher, editor, writer, district superintendent, theologian, and historian.

 During his tenure as editor in chief, the Pentecostal Herald proclaimed the apostolic message worldwide, and the Forward provided valuable resources for ministers. The selection of Word Aflame Press books grew from a mere handful to over 150 in print on a variety of biblical, ministerial, and practical subjects. He actively supervised the approval and editing of all periodicals, tracts, books, and Sunday School literature. He was also instrumental in organizing the first Oneness Pentecostal symposiums, overseeing the Historical Center (now the Center for the Study of Oneness Pentecostalism), formulating the Judicial Procedure, and chairing the Parliamentary Committee.

Stanley R. Hanby

United Pentecostal Church International

? ~ 1996

Stanley R. Hanby was a native of Fairfield County, he was saved at a young age in 1916. The call of God was immediately on his life. Much of his youth was spent in laboring in the Newwark assembly with pastor J.A. Frush. Stanley and his wife, Frances, answered the call to start their own church and did so by conducting  tent meetings, revivals, and special services in New Salem, Baltimore, and Basil, and the Pleasant Valley Church.

Although their humble beginnings were marked by leaking roofs, broken windows, and falling plaster, the Holy Ghost fell mightily in their services. Four children, Faith, Ruth, Rhoda, and Mark, were born to the Hanby family.

Stanley Hanby had a vision when he initiated the first fairgrounds tent meeting in Lancaster in 1932. He was the first link in the chain of men who left Lancaster with a great heritage. Many home missions' works were pioneered throughout the county, and Lancaster was the largest.

God called men of strong spiritual fiber to build a gospel foundation in the state of Ohio, and S.R. Hanby was among their number. He joined J.A. Frush, William Mulford, T.D. Davis, W.E. Gamblin, and F.E. Curts in preaching, teaching, and evangelizing with fervor until the Holy Ghost fell like rain. The Bible doctrine taught by such strong men established strong churches.

S.R. Hanby was elected as General Secretary-Treasurer for the Pentecostal Assemblies of Jesus Christ in 1938. The call to home missions drove him to move from city to city preaching the gospel. In 1945 he moved to Logan, Ohio. After Logan had heard the gospel, his next field of labor was the state of New York.

During the merger in 1945, S.R. Hanby is the person who suggested that the new organization be called, "The United Pentecostal Church." He served as the first Director of Home Missions for the UPC from 1952 through 1957.

Home mission's work was the heartbeat of S.R. Hanby, and the field of Ohio benefited greatly from his passion to plant the gospel in the heartland. Eventually, he retired to Chattanooga, Tennessee. S.R. Hanby fell on sleep in Christ, December 9, 1996.

 Rev. John Steve Hancock

Independant Ministry

1941 ~ Present

Rev. Steve Hancock was born on February 2, 1941 in Indianapolis, Indiana. He worked as a garage handyman before his conversion. On March 11, 1959, he was baptized in Jesus' Name, and on May 17, 1959, he received the Holy Ghost. His home church was the Gospel Lighthouse in Vista, California. Today, Brother Hancock credits the late Elder Carl Ballestero as his pastor. On October 22, 1960, Steve and Jeannie Marshall were united in holy matrimony. Together they have three children. In 2007, after suffering from a short illness, Sister Hancock went home to be with the Lord.

 Brother Hancock began preaching in 1960, and evangelized for nine years. His first pastorate was the New Bethel Church in Jayess, Mississippi, which lasted from January, 1972, until October, 1994. His second pastorate was in Pineburr, Mississippi, at The church of the Lord Jesus Christ. He served there from July, 1995 until June, 1996. His third pastorate began in October of 1997 in McComb, Mississippi, at Calvary Apostolic Church, where he continues to pastor. Audio and Video Recordings of Steve Hancock are available in the audio library of the Apostolic Archives International.

Donald E. Haymon Sr.

Ida Haywood Hancock

Pentecostal Assemblies of the World

Deceased~1954

 Ida Howard was born in the modest town of Owensboro, Kentucky. She was the youngest of (8) children born to Samuel and Fanny Howard. Her early years were colorfully interwoven with the things that made up a most beautiful character, tears, griefs and the gold of happiness. When (14) years of age, she moved to Indianapolis, Indiana, making her home with an older sister. In 1902, Ida met and became the wife of Garfield Thomas Haywood, who later became the first presiding bishop of the Pentecostal Assemblies of the World. Together they had only one child, a daughter whom they named Fannie.

In 1908, she was filled with the Holy Ghost. It was during those early years, that the rich area of her influence was expanded and she was able to lend her qualities in the blue-printing of our religious era, at which time it was obvious that a great work lay ahead.

The grace of God and her extraordinary background fitted her exceptionally well for the role she of necessity must play as pioneer in the work of God. In the mid-twenties with her family she travelled extensively in the United States., Canada, Europe and the holy land: And she was loved by many in the cities and countries that she visited; because of her endeavor to exemplify the life of Christ and appease that spiritual hunger among God loving people everywhere.

In 1931, she was dealt a crushing blow, in the passing of her husband, the late Bishop G.T. Haywood. Her world of hope lay in a crumpled heap at her feet and she stood with broken heart: facing what promised to be an empty future: but, true to her noble bearing, she bravely gathered the broken cords, securing them fast with her indoitable faith and courage. She met and comforted her friends and continued her service as counsellorto both tyoung and old, placing within them the inner security, intelligence and fundamental truths, moral and spiritual.

In 1939, she became the wife of Bishop Samuel N. Hancock, pastor and founder of Clinton Street Greater Bethlehem Temple and came to make her home in Detroit, Michigan. Allied to another great warrior, she again shouldered the responsibility which had been hers for all most half a century. She did not possess dynamic oratory, but her faith was infinite and her insight into affairs as well as people was astounding. Her rich resources of wit and wisdom was endless and she was able to convey to others that profound rapture which was co-part of her character.

On August 1, 1954, while the guest of Elder and Sister William Crossley, in Buffalo, New York., Sister Hancock was stricken with an apparently minor ailment but, which proved to be fatal. Monday, November 8, 1954, after informing her family of the immediate end, to their consternation, folded her earthly robes about her and fell on sleep in Christ.The best of her years were given to the work of God and the service of his people.

Rev. Clyde Joseph Haney

United Pentecostal Church International

1912 ~ 1971

On  May 14, 1912. Clyde Joseph Haney was born to Levi and Sophie Haney. His father was a minister who worked alongside Charles Price, a pre-World War II faith healer. Clyde was 14 years old when his father took to the way of Satan and left his wife and children for another woman. Clyde became embittered toward God because of the hardships imposed on his family because of his father's sins. 

Since Sophie's family was in the cattle business, it was a natural thing for Clyde to follow this line of work.  By the age of 17 he was foreman on one of the largest ranches in northern California that, between ownership and leasing, was running cattle on about 40 thousand acres. He worked hard, and on the side was building his own herd with which he planned to someday own his own ranch. But God had other plans for him.

Since most counties were dry (no liquor), moonshine (bootleg liquor) was what they drank made with illegal stills. One day Clyde got hold of a bad batch of moonshine that was poisoned, and he became extremely ill to the point of death. The doctor gave him just a few days to live. Through all of this Clyde was being dealt with by God to surrender to Him and preach the Gospel.

At the age of twenty, and at the very point of death he committed his life to preach, and God instantly healed him. He sold his cattle and horse and walked away from the ranch life to fulfill the call to become a pastor and teacher for Christ. 

In time Clyde married Olive Grey. He attended Harry Morse's bible training school in Oakland, California, and in 1935 began a serious study of the book of Revelation. He evangelized and pastored several churches.

In 1938 he accepted the pastorate of a little community church in Paloma, California. In 1940 he returned to Stockton, California and became assistant pastor in a church then called Pentecostal Harmony Chapel. Called to pastor a church in Pasadena in 1941, he continued there for five years.

Brother Haney returned to Stockton in 1946, where he was to remain for the for the rest of his life. He accepted the pastorate of Pentecostal Harmony Chapel, changing the name to First Pentecostal Church. It was here he felt the need for a Bible school to train young ministers. In February 1949 Clyde started the Pentecostal Bible School, which was renamed the Western Apostolic Bible college in 1953. Later the name was changed again to Christian Life College.

While teaching and pastoring, one of Clyde's great burdens was to rightly divide the Word of Truth by the proper interpretation of Scripture. He faithfully taught  Eschatology until his untimely death. Clyde also ministered as the day-time Bible teacher at many camp meetings and district Bible conferences teaching pastors and their saints. On October 15, 1971, as the result of an automobile accident Bro. Clyde Haney went home to be with the Lord. He was licensed and ordained with the United Pentecostal Church International. Bro. Haney's legacy remains with us to this day. Audio Recordings of Rev. Clyde Haney are available in our Audio Library.

Rev. Joel Nathan Holmes

 Independant Ministry

1949 ~ Present

Reverend Joel Holmes was born on November 22, 1949 in North Little Rock, Arkansas, to A.O. and Agnes Holmes. He was raised in a minister's home, and at the age of sixteen, he began his preaching ministry.

Joel served as an Evangelist until he was ninteen years of age, at which time, due to his father's ill health, he began his pastoral endeavor at the First Pentecostal Church of North Little Rock.

On December 31, 1971 he and Janet Burr were united in holy matrimony. Two children were born to this union.

Brother Holmes is a powerful preacher of the gospel. His ministry has reached the lives of countless thousands of people. He is a pastor, and a friend to the Apostolic Jesus Name movement. His success in pastoring one of the largest Apostolic churches in North America is due to his commitment to prayer. Audio Recordings of Joel Holmes are available in the audio library of the Apostolic Archives International.

Bishop John Silas Holly

Pentecostal Assemblies of the World

1901 ~ 1979

 Bishop John Holly was born in Monroe, Louisiana in 1901. In 1919, at the age of 18 he was saved under the ministry of Elder A.R. Schooler, one of the Pentecostal Assemblies of the World's first five bishops. Schooler had a profound impact on John. In 1920, John felt the call to the ministry, and in 1921 was ordained a minister in the P.A.W. For years Holly had the distinction of being the youngest man ever ordained (21 years old).

He pastored the Apostolic Faith Assembly in Chicago, Illinois for 48 years. During the infancy stages of his assembly, he looked to and sought counsel from G.T. Haywood. He would often preach in Haywood's Christ Temple and Haywood would reciprocate by preaching at Apostolic Faith Assembly. Although their age discrepancies would seem to better suit a "Father-Son" relationship, both men had a mutual respect for each other's gifting.

Bishop Holly was one of the most profound Bible scholars in the history of the P.A.W. He studied the Bible extensively. Few, if any could quote scriptures on the level of Bishop Holly. Often times he would approach a pulpit to preach the gospel but with no Bible. His mind was huge! John was elevated to the Bishopric in 1953 and presided as diocesan over the 8th Episcopal District of Illinois for 26 years.   

Bishop John Holly was as unique as they come. He loved life and he loved to live it to the highest. John was able to balance his conservative approach to holiness with a gregarious seemingly unbridled zest for living. He loved to travel. He loved good food, and he especially loved to dress. Everywhere Bishop Holly went people were awed by his personality.

Often he used his gift to persuade, cajole, and influence people to bend his way on certain issues. His force of will could be overwhelming. His wife Effie was equally his match and she carried great sway among her peers and contemporaries. John Holly seemed to carry great favor from God. Around 1918 or 1919 when Bishop G.T. Haywood was ascending in stature and power and was in organizing the P.A. of W., he took a liking to John Holly. Haywood was impressed with John's intellect, goal orientation, and relentless quest to be a good minister of the gospel. His most notable achievement may have been that he was a member of the Pentecostal Assemblies of the World for 66 years, right at the beginning of its inception. He and Effie were the parents of five children. On October 16, 1979 Bishop John S. Holly went home to be with the Lord. Audio Recordings of Bishop John Holly are available in our Audio Library.

Dr. Ellen Moore Hopkins

Pentecostal Assemblies of the World

1911 ~ 2000

Dr. Ellen Moore Hopkins was born in Liberia, West Africa, of Congolese parents on June 6, 1911. After an extensive education in America, beginning at age 12, she returned to her native land where she established an entire educational campus, encompassing students from Headstart through junior college. She was not only a teacher, but a registered nurse, a licensed midwife and held a Doctor of Divinity degree. She was the widow of Bishop Easter Hopkins.

This talented generous individual was born in Talla, meaning "to look", in the the Republic of Liberia. She was adopted by the late Bishop  and Sister Samuel K. Grimes of New York City, former missionaries to West Africa. She wrote Bishop Grimes requesting help with her education after finding a copy of The Christian Outlook lying along a Liberian road. Bishop and Sister Grimes helped facilitate her education in the United States. Dr. Hopkins attended school in Lawrenceville, Virginia. After receiving her high school diploma from St. Paul Polytechnic Institute, she graduated from Lincoln School of Nursing as a registered nurse. She continued her education at Maternity Center in New York and became a licensed midwife.

She studied abstetric management at Margurette Hauge School for Nurses and pediatrics at Cook County School of Nursing in Chicago. Upon returning to Virginia she received a B.S. Degree in Public Health Nursing Education from Medical College of Virginia, a Master's Degree at University of America in Washington, D.C., and a Doctor of Divinity degree from Aenon Bible College, then located in Columbus, Ohio.

Upon her return to Liberia following her education in the United tates, in 1946, Dr. Hopkins founded the Samuel K. Grimes Child Welfare Center in Kakata, Liberia, in a warehouse which was gradually developed over the years into an organized Christian community of 14 buildings including schools, a 1,000 seat church, a maternity hospital, two medical clinica, three dormitories and two cafeterias. During her 33 years of service in Liberia Dr. Hopkins cared for 700 orphaned and indigent children, delivered approximately 5,000 babies and trained 136 nurses who served all over Liberia. She aggresively taught the people of Liberia, especially mothers of children, how to save lives by sterilizing water and baby bottles, and how to incure cleanliness at childbirth. Many mothers were saved from tetanus, and their babies from dysentery that killed so many children and infants. Day by night, by the light of her lamp, Dr. Hopkins would teach the principles she learned in America, while also providing educational programs for the youth of Liberia. So extensive and impacting was her work that her story was featured in The Saturday Evening Post 1953 article, "The House that Saves Lives" and in 1951 in Ebony Magazine which the editor dubbed her "The Lady with the Lamp".

Dr. Hopkins was cited in Who's Who of American Women, The International Dictionarate, and was awarded the Dr. W.V.S. Tubman Liberian National Award. Dr Hopkins served vigorously and diligently over thirty years in Liberia before having to flee the country due to civil war. During her time in the United States she continued to minister and publish "The Church Woman's Inspirator" a series of teachings for women. Dr. Hopkins departed this life, March 11, 2000, in Zanesville, Ohio.

Rev. Benjamin Harrison Hite

United Pentecostal Church International

1888 ~ 1948

 Reverend B.H. Hite was born September 2, 1888 in Franklin, Kentucky.One of seven children born to John and Emily Hite, he was destined to have a great part in the work of God. His mother was laid to rest when he was only ten years of age. At her passing she made a profound impression upon her young son by saying that she would not mind dying if she knew that he and his younger sister would grow up to serve the Lord. 

B.H. Hite was united in marriage to Mary Vanover on December 26, 1911 at Nashville, Tennessee. To this union were born ten children. In 1912, when he was still a young man, God began to deal with B.H. Hite. He was converted in a cottage prayer meeting. At this time he wholly accepted God as his leader, and threw away all his medicine. 

A few days later, Brothewr H.W. Coulon came to nashville, preaching the message of the baptism of the Holy Ghost. B.H. Hite had never heard this messagem but when he did he said that he wanted all that God had for him. In October, 1912, he received the Holy Ghost at a ladies prayer meeting, and spoke with tongues for about five hours. Shortly thereafter he acknowledges his call to preach the gospel.

At the beginning of his ministry he preached on street corners, in jails, in cottage prayer meetings - in fact, anywhere there was an open door. In his first cottage prayer meeting a blind woman was divinely healed. He opened his first mission in 1913. But he soon felt the call to enter evangelistic work, and this led him into the mountain areas, as well as tp many places in Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Illinois, and Missouri. He founded missions which have grown into fine churches. In 1920 he opened a small mission in Granite City, Illinois. In 1923 he conducted services in Belleville, Illinois, and many received the Holy Ghost.

Brother Hite's first ministerial affiliation was with the Assemblies of God. Then, in 1916, he received the light on baptism in Jesus' name, and affiliated with the Pentecostal Assemblies of the World. Later he became a member of the Pentecostal Church, Incorporated. From the time of the merger in 1945, until his death, he was a faithful member of the United Pentecostal Church. He served also in various official positions. He was the first General Chairman of the Pentecostal Church, Incorporated, being elected in 1934 and serving until 1939. In this same organization he later held the position of District Superintendent of the Central District, made up at that time of Illinois, Missouri and Kentucky. When  Missouri seperated from the Central District to form a district of its own, he became the District Superintendent. He continued to hold this position in the United Pentecostal Church until the time of his death.

Brother Hite played a prominent part in helping to bring about the merger, in 1945, of the Pentecostal Church, Incorporated and the Pentecostal Assemblies of Jesus Christ. In 1921 he came to St. Louis, Missouri to start a church. At the time he had two children. He came into the city with only three dollars. And on that same day he gave half of this to a needy fellow-minister. In St. Louis he established the First Pentecostal Church, and pastored it until his death, twenty-seven years later. God mightliy blessed his labors, and gave him many souls. From his church approximately forty ministers went out into the work of God. B.H. Hite was called home on May 23, 1948. He is gone, but the work he did lives on.

Bishop L. Hunter

Church In The Lord Jesus Christ

1914 ~ 1991

 Bishop L. Hunter was born on July 18, 1914. He was first called to the ministry in 1940. He initally rejected God's call. His premise was that preaching was a serious job and not to be taken unconscientiously. He felt that he was unworthy to carry the gospel of Christ. Bishop's years of resistance was spent in agony, pain, and illness, of which, he had never experienced before. He decided to then move to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. For some time, God continued to deal with Bishop Hunter. Eventually, he became convinved that if he did not surrender to the Lord, his life would be taken. After running for three years, he then gave heed to the heavenly voice of the Lord and preached his first sermon on March 18, 1943 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

The Lord gave this young man a vision. He showed him in that vision a Church; the interior walls, the ceiling, floors, pews, pulpit, and even the furniture. However, the location was unknown. A few months later, while walking along, he saw a sign, "Church For Rent." He called the number inscribed and made an appointment to meet with the owner. Bishop Hunter was relying totally on the Lord to guide and direct him. In doing so, he told the Lord that if it was his will for him to rent this church, let the owner be in the office awaiting and asleep.

When he arrived at the office, the proprietior was asleep. The owner unlocked the door of the building and it was IDENTICAL to the vision the Lord had shown him earlier. Bishop Hunter preached fervently, and many souls were baptized in the name of Jesus Christ and were filled with the Holy Ghost. After about three years of ministering in Philadelphia, another major change took place in Bishop Hunter's life. God began to deal with him again. This time God was saying, "Go to South Carolina." Again he was reluctant to give heed to the voice of the Lord. He felt as though he would never accomplish anything in South Carolina. However, the Lord continued to say, "South Carolina."

Bishop Hunter arrived in South Carolina on January 10, 1946. He preached his first sermon just four days later on January 14, 1946. Since his arrival, there has been "corn" in South Carolina. Bishop's ministry extended over the course of 48 years, during which many were baptized "IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST" for the remission their sins, and many were blessed with the precious gift of the Holy Ghost. Many are continuing steadfastly in the Apostle's Doctrine until this day. Bishop Hunter was the Chief Apostle and General Overseer of The Church In The Lord Jesus Christ Of The Apostolic Faith Inc. Bishop Hunter departed from this life on July 24, 1991 and now rests from his labor.