ASSEMBLIES OF GOD
Darrin J. Rodgers
Darrin J. Rodgers has served as director of the Flower Pentecostal Heritage Center (FPHC) since 2005. He earned a master's degree in theological studies from Assemblies of God Theological Seminary and a juris doctorate from the University of North Dakota School of Law. He previously served at the David du Plessis Archive and the McAlister Library at Fuller Theological Seminary. He is the author of Northern Harvest , a history of Pentecostalism in North Dakota. His FPHC portfolio includes acquisitions, editing Assemblies of God Heritage magazine, and conducting oral history interviews. His wife, Desiree, is an ordained AG minister.
Articles by Darrin J. Rodgers
He was a German Lutheran minister who had an encounter with the Holy Spirit and became convinced that faith and humility go hand in hand.
Educator Alexander Vazakas, although not a minister or missionary, experienced the baptism in the Holy Spirit in the 1890s — well before the Azusa Street revival — and influenced countless lives for Christ.
Missionary Andrew Urshan's Pentecostal ministry in Persia (Iran) was filled with the miraculous as well as persecution, surprisingly by those who called themselves "Christians."