Jernigan, John C., 1900 – 1980

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The John C. Jernigan Collection offers insights into the work and thought of a significant leader in the Church of God from about 1926 to 1954. The collection is limited to the years of his ministerial leadership.Surviving members of the Jernigan family made materials in the collection available to the Dixon Pentecostal Research Center in 1998. The most important item from the Jernigan years as a state overseer is the Overseer's Monthly Report Book for the five-year...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The John C. Jernigan Collection offers insights into the work and thought of a significant leader in the Church of God from about 1926 to 1954. The collection is limited to the years of his ministerial leadership.Surviving members of the Jernigan family made materials in the collection available to the Dixon Pentecostal Research Center in 1998. The most important item from the Jernigan years as a state overseer is the Overseer's Monthly Report Book for the five-year...

Abstract –Assembly–F.W. Lemons –Propositions–Ministers' Reinstatement –Underpaid Ministers –License for music teachers –Ministers who teach contradictory doctrines –Double married ministers–Ordination –Quorum –Executive Board Meeting School Board–Joint meeting of Supreme Council and School Board –Report of the Assembly Committee –Dress question...

Abstract –Bob Jones College–Sevierville property–Insurance on Bob Jones College –Youth Program Committee –Mr. Pipkin –Tennessee Music Company–Committee for ad –General Secretary duties–Spokane, Washington–Help for sick ministers and aged ministers –Youth Program–Dinner in Honor of Brother Boehmer –P.H. Hammond –Committee on Sick Ministers...

Scope and Contents –Discussion of "Temperance" –National Association of Evangelicals Convention –Lee College lot on Church Street –Lee College Day –Sevierville property –Loan for Lee College –Local church in Sevierville and college furniture –E.C. Clark –Salaries of General Officials –Group insurance –District Overseers –Ordination of Bishops –Georgia and Arkanasas...

Abstract –Salaries of General Officials and Department Heads –Ministers' Certificates –Applicants for Ministry–Support of Evangelists –Ordainted Minister –Bishop's Wives –Exhorters with second marriages –Appointments and Limitations –Pastoral Appointments –General Assembly –Order of Ministry –Limitation of Tenure of Office for General Officials and State Overseers ...

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This collection includes the official correspondence of the general overseer's office beginning in 1949 under the leadership of H. L. Chesser. It is entered in the system at the file level, organized chronologically, then alphabetically. It includes incoming and outgoing mail. The file records in the archive catalog include the names of the correspondents included in the file, though subjects have not been attached at this time.