Greetings! My name is Barry Jenkins Sr and I am a Director of the International Wesleyan Holiness Association. First, thank you for visiting our blog. Please return often as we will be adding new content on a regular basis. Second, it is fair to ask in this first blog post, "What is the IWHA and why have you started it at this time?" The answer begins in 1976. It starts with my love for books and book stores. I answered an altar call at a Baptist Church in 1974 and began my Christian walk. I graduated from Old Dominion University in 1976 and entered law school that same year in the fall at the College of William and Mary. Across the street from the law school at 255 Richmond Road was a Christian book store called the Maranatha House. Maranatha can be interpreted as "Come, Lord." I was familiar with the term so I knew I was walking into a Christian book store. On an afternoon in the fall of 1976 I walked into the little book store and expected to see what was new in Christian books. Little did I realize that this one event would be a turning point in my life. I met an elderly gentleman in his 80's named Brother J. Herbert Norton who said he was the owner. As I looked around the book store I saw books written by people I had never heard of, e.g. "Uncle" Bud Robinson, J.A. Wood, Bishop Foster, M.W. Knapp, Beverly Carradine and too many more to name. It was explained to me that these were holiness books. Over the next three years I learned much sitting at the feet of Rev. Norton who explained the doctrine of entire sanctification to me. Rev. Norton did not live long enough to see the seeds he planted into my heart bear fruit, but they did. Years later, I would experience what it meant to have a pure heart and be entirely sanctified. I have had several detours in my life, but I always returned back to being in the "holiness crowd." A second person who had a major impact in my life is Rev. Duane Maxey. He was instrumental in providing the tools to enable me to mature in my faith and in an understanding about the doctrine and experience of entire sanctification.
So the answer to the questions, "what is the IWHA and why have you started it at this time," are threefold:
1. To continue the ministry of Rev. Herbert Norton, the Wesleyan Holiness minister that sowed the first seeds into my life about Biblical holiness; and
2. To spread the DVDs and flash drives of Rev. Duane Maxey around the world. These DVDs and flash drives contain a lifetime of materials that can be used by one in the ministry, whether pastoring at home or on the mission field, or for the layman that wants to read the books and stories that will encourage them to walk in Scriptural Holiness; and
3. Finally, and most importantly, to bring honor and glory and worship to the Father, Son and Holy Ghost and to bring the message of salvation to the lost and entire sanctification to the believer.
While I never post to argue and debate, if you have questions that we can help you with, please do ask and we will respond. We also support orphans and widows around the globe. In addition, we allow ministries and ministers to affiliate with us for the purposes of prayer and support.
May you be blessed as you read the books, devotions and blog posts.
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