Our current World Missions page has up-to-date information. This page records our history.
History is recorded in the IPHC Manual, and the part pertaining to World Missions states:
Early missions work of the combined churches included the Hong
Kong #eld begun by Anna Dean in 1909, the Indian #eld opened by Della
Gaines in 1910, the South African #eld started by J. O. Lehman in 1913,
and the Central American #eld opened by Amos Bradley in 1913. Later
e%orts by J. M. Turner in India (1921), K. E. M. Spooner (1915) and D.
D. Freeman (1924) in Africa, and W. H. Turner (1919) in China greatly
strengthened the early overseas missions of the church. (page 22).
Foreign missions work opened in this period included Argentina,
started by Janet Hart in 1931; the Mexico #eld, founded by Esteban Lopez
in 1933; and the Hawaiian #eld, founded in 1936 by Mildred Johnson
Brostek. (page 23).
During the 1950s the church experienced rapid expansion in the
mission #elds. Works were opened during this period in Costa Rica,
Cuba, Northern Rhodesia (Zambia), and Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe),
Malawi, Nigeria, Mozambique, Ghana, and Botswana. (page 23).
At the close of the 1993-1997 quadrennium, the International Pentecostal
Holiness Church consisted of 164,149 members and 1,658 churches in
the United States, and 2,621,269 members and 7,635 churches worldwide
(including a”liates). We also had a mission presence in 81 countries. (page 24).
!e church’s growth around the world during the 1997- 2000
quadrennium was even more remarkable. Worldwide membership almost
doubled from 729,887 in 1996 to 1,345,890 in 2000. Including a”liates –
the Methodist Pentecostal Church of Chile and the Wesleyan Methodist
Church of Brazil – the total membership was 3.5 million, an increase of
nearly 1 million from 1996. (page 25).
!e church in India celebrated a collection of ministry milestones in
November 2006. Nearly 350 people met in Agra to commemorate the 85th
anniversary of the International Pentecostal Holiness Church in India, the
Golden Jubilee (50 years) of ministry in South India, 25 years of outreach
in East India, 25 years in Central India, and Hobert and Marguerite
Howard’s 55 years of missionary service. (page 28).