2nd Session 2018 Heritage Lectures: Kimberly Alexander: "Women Ministers in the Holiness-Pentecostal Movement"

The Archives Department is pleased to present this year's Heritage Lectures by Dr. Kimberly Alexander, who is the associate professor of History of Christianity in the School of Divinity at Regent University in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Before moving to Regent in 2011, she served for 11 years as associate professor of Historical Theology at Pentecostal Theological Seminary in Cleveland, Tennessee, where she also served as assistant vice president for Academics. She is a former president of the Society for Pentecostal Studies. Dr. Alexander has conducted extensive research on the history of Pentecostal women ministers. Her research also focuses on women in contemporary Pentecostalism and has been used to help pastors and denominational leaders understand the unique challenges that Pentecostal women ministers face, presenting history, current data, and effective strategies for affirming, developing, and launching women ministers into full-time Christian service. Her expertise has been sought out by scholars and church leaders in the larger Pentecostal movement around the world. She has presented her research in North and South America as well as in the Hong Kong, the United Kingdom, and, Europe. Dr. Alexander is the author of numerous book chapters and journal articles as well as three books: Pentecostal Healing: Models of Theology and Practice; with R. Hollis Gause, Women in Leadership: A Pentecostal Perspective; and with James P. Bowers, What Women Want: Pentecostal Women Ministers Speak for Themselves. She is delighted to bring her research and passion the IPHC and to the historical Pentecostal community of Falcon, North Carolina.