This article profiles Dollie York, Lucy Hargis, Grace Curtis, and Ruth Moore, itinerant preachers for the International Pentecostal Holiness Church (IPHC) who used the outdoors as their pulpit for saving souls.
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This article profiles Dollie York, Lucy Hargis, Grace Curtis, and Ruth Moore, itinerant preachers for the International Pentecostal Holiness Church (IPHC) who used the outdoors as their pulpit for saving souls.
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Abstract: Women may not have been able to hold official positions in the International Pentecostal Holiness Church (IPHC), but the four women described by Kristen D. Welch had a great amount of influence over the people to whom they preached. Welch profiles Dollie York, Lucy Hargis, Grace Curtis, and Ruth Moore, all itinerate preachers for the IPHC who used the outdoors as their pulpit for saving souls.
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Welch, Kristen D.Preaching in the "Open Air": The Ministries of Early Pentecostal Women Preachers in Oklahoma,
article,
Autumn 2010;
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
(https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc2006512/:
accessed May 31, 2024),
The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org;
crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.