Dixon Pentecostal Research Center

06/13/2026

A.J. Tomlinson recorded in his journal on June 13, 1903, “I was ordained a minister of the gospel of the Holiness Church at Camp Creek, N.C.” He later led the Holiness Churches to adopt the name Church of God. After relocating to Cleveland, Tennessee, in 1904, he went on to moderate the first and several subsequent General Assemblies, plant and pastor the North Cleveland Church of God, become the first general overseer, edit the "Church of God Evangel," serve as the first superintendent (president) of today’s Lee University, and serve as the first superintendent of today’s Smoky Mountain Children’s Home. His legacy includes several denominations identifying themselves with some form of the name Church of God and ministering to well over ten million members around the world.

05/30/2026

This Week in AG History — May 29, 1937 By Ruthie Edgerly ObergOriginally published on AG News, 29 May 2026 If you attended meetings in the years of the early Pentecostal movement, you might remembe…

05/13/2026

05/01/2026

We are pleased to report that the Dixon Pentecostal Research Center has located and digitized four recordings of the Reverend Kohatha Culpepper. They are available at https://www.dixonprc.org/kohatha-recordings.html #/Kohatha02.

Kohatha DeLoach Culpepper (1927–2014) served the Church of God faithfully as a popular speaker in a variety of contexts. She was married to the Rev. J. Frank Culpepper, who served the...

04/26/2026

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04/02/2026

03/29/2026

“Papa is in Chattanooga, Tennessee holding some meetings. I wish he would come back if it was only the Lord's will.”

The Dixon Pentecostal Research Center is pleased to announce the online availability of the diary of Halcy Olive Tomlinson Hughes on the Consortium of Pentecostal Archives website. The oldest child of A.J. and Mary Jane Tomlinson, Halcy was born March 28, 1891, in Westfield, Indiana—135 years ago. Her diary begins on her 15th birthday in 1906 and records much of the daily life in the Tomlinson household including attending school, childhood discipline, working in the Woolen Mill, and many of the cares of a 15-year-old girl. She frequently writes about the ministry of her father who was endeavoring to establish what is now the North Cleveland Church of God as well as ministering in surrounding communities and towns.

Halcy Tomlinson Hughes died in childbirth with her second daughter, Geneva, January 14, 1920, at the age of 28. She is buried along with Geneva in the Fort Hill Cemetery in Cleveland, TN. Her first daughter, Thelma, who died in 1918 during the Influenza Pandemic, is buried there as well. Her husband Horace Hughes, who died in 1936, is buried next to Halcy in the same plot, which also has the graves of A.J. and Mary Jane Tomlinson.

The online availability of her journal is possible through the ongoing partnership between the Dixon Pentecostal Research Center and the Church of God of Prophecy.

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