Archivists' Seminar

March 11 Springfield, Missouri

A one-day workshop was held March 11, 1999 in Springfield, Missouri for pentecostal and charismatic archivists. Hosted by the Flower Pentecostal Heritage Center, the meeting was jointly organized by Dr. David Roebuck, Director of the Dixon Pentecostal Research Center (Church of God), Rev. Wayne Warner, Director of the Flower Pentecostal Heritage Center, and Dr. Harold D. Hunter, Director of the IPHC Archives and Research Center

At least 32 persons took part in the day’s proceedings that started at 9am and concluded at 5pm the same day. The meeting attracted a wide range of pentecostal groups and four IPHC Conference Archivists: Rev. Carl Sexton, Upper South Carolina; Rev. Paul Oxley, Georgia Conference; Rev. Larry Jones, South Carolina Conference; and Rev. Albert Maggard, Great Plains Conference. Individual sessions were held on how to collect materials for an archives and proper approaches to cataloging and preserving holdings in a special collection. A panel composed of the organizers and Ms. Kate McKinn, Archivist of the David DuPlessis Archive at Fuller Theological Seminary, fielded a wide range of questions from participants. The day ended with a tour of the vault, study area and museum all newly renovated at a cost of $1 million.