Reverend Dollie Anne Drain Simms, born December 21, 1898, to her parents, Wesley and Nancy Hill Drain, in Paris, Arkansas. She grew up on the family farm, with her three sisters, Cora, Myrtle, and Addie.
Dollie was saved at age twelve in a Holiness Revival. She received the Baptism in the Holy Spirit, and was called to preach at age thirteen. Dollie preached her first sermon to people July 4, 1913.
She was among the three hundred attending the organizational meeting of the General Council of the Assemblies of God, held in Hot Springs, Arkansas in 1914. Dollie was the youngest, and one of the first women to be ordained in that meeting at age fifteen.
Dollie married Herbert Edward Simms in 1919. To this union, was born three beautiful daughters, Marjorie, Frances, and Charlotte. Together they evangelized, pioneered, and pastored churches for forty-seven years, until his health failed. Brother Simms went to be with the Lord in 1964.
Dollie was the first Arkansas Women's Ministries President, serving from1940 to 1995. For seventy-eight years, Dollie preached, pioneered, and helped to pioneer, thirty-two churches. Twenty-eight of them were in Arkansas. Hundreds of souls were reached as a result of her life and ministry.
Dollie entered Maranatha Village in 1988. Friends who visited her there, were encouraged and fired up, just talking to her. The Pentecostal Fire still burned in her soul.
Dollie serves as a role model for young people today. From the age of twelve to the age of ninety-two. She was faithful to the call of God on her life.
Sister Dollie, as she was lovingly known, transferred her earthly membership to her heavenly home, on March 24, 1991, at the age of ninety-two years. So shall she ever be with her Lord. She leaves a beautiful legacy. Four generations of her family continues to carry the torch of the Gospel into all the world.
Dollie along with the Apostle Paul leaves this testimony to all who come after her. She has fought a good fight, she has finished her course. She has kept the Faith. She has entered into her heavenly home. Forever to be with the Lord.
(Hill, Alice, I Was There When It Happened. pp., 184-185).
Dollie was saved at age twelve in a Holiness Revival. She received the Baptism in the Holy Spirit, and was called to preach at age thirteen. Dollie preached her first sermon to people July 4, 1913.
She was among the three hundred attending the organizational meeting of the General Council of the Assemblies of God, held in Hot Springs, Arkansas in 1914. Dollie was the youngest, and one of the first women to be ordained in that meeting at age fifteen.
Dollie married Herbert Edward Simms in 1919. To this union, was born three beautiful daughters, Marjorie, Frances, and Charlotte. Together they evangelized, pioneered, and pastored churches for forty-seven years, until his health failed. Brother Simms went to be with the Lord in 1964.
Dollie was the first Arkansas Women's Ministries President, serving from1940 to 1995. For seventy-eight years, Dollie preached, pioneered, and helped to pioneer, thirty-two churches. Twenty-eight of them were in Arkansas. Hundreds of souls were reached as a result of her life and ministry.
Dollie entered Maranatha Village in 1988. Friends who visited her there, were encouraged and fired up, just talking to her. The Pentecostal Fire still burned in her soul.
Dollie serves as a role model for young people today. From the age of twelve to the age of ninety-two. She was faithful to the call of God on her life.
Sister Dollie, as she was lovingly known, transferred her earthly membership to her heavenly home, on March 24, 1991, at the age of ninety-two years. So shall she ever be with her Lord. She leaves a beautiful legacy. Four generations of her family continues to carry the torch of the Gospel into all the world.
Dollie along with the Apostle Paul leaves this testimony to all who come after her. She has fought a good fight, she has finished her course. She has kept the Faith. She has entered into her heavenly home. Forever to be with the Lord.
(Hill, Alice, I Was There When It Happened. pp., 184-185).
Reverend Dollie Anne Drain Simms, born December 21, 1898, to her parents, Wesley and Nancy Hill Drain, in Paris, Arkansas. She grew up on the family farm, with her three sisters, Cora, Myrtle, and Addie.
Dollie was saved at age twelve in a Holiness Revival. She received the Baptism in the Holy Spirit, and was called to preach at age thirteen. Dollie preached her first sermon to people July 4, 1913.
She was among the three hundred attending the organizational meeting of the General Council of the Assemblies of God, held in Hot Springs, Arkansas in 1914. Dollie was the youngest, and one of the first women to be ordained in that meeting at age fifteen.
Dollie married Herbert Edward Simms in 1919. To this union, was born three beautiful daughters, Marjorie, Frances, and Charlotte. Together they evangelized, pioneered, and pastored churches for forty-seven years, until his health failed. Brother Simms went to be with the Lord in 1964.
Dollie was the first Arkansas Women's Ministries President, serving from1940 to 1995. For seventy-eight years, Dollie preached, pioneered, and helped to pioneer, thirty-two churches. Twenty-eight of them were in Arkansas. Hundreds of souls were reached as a result of her life and ministry.
Dollie entered Maranatha Village in 1988. Friends who visited her there, were encouraged and fired up, just talking to her. The Pentecostal Fire still burned in her soul.
Dollie serves as a role model for young people today. From the age of twelve to the age of ninety-two. She was faithful to the call of God on her life.
Sister Dollie, as she was lovingly known, transferred her earthly membership to her heavenly home, on March 24, 1991, at the age of ninety-two years. So shall she ever be with her Lord. She leaves a beautiful legacy. Four generations of her family continues to carry the torch of the Gospel into all the world.
Dollie along with the Apostle Paul leaves this testimony to all who come after her. She has fought a good fight, she has finished her course. She has kept the Faith. She has entered into her heavenly home. Forever to be with the Lord.
(Hill, Alice, I Was There When It Happened. pp., 184-185).
Dollie was saved at age twelve in a Holiness Revival. She received the Baptism in the Holy Spirit, and was called to preach at age thirteen. Dollie preached her first sermon to people July 4, 1913.
She was among the three hundred attending the organizational meeting of the General Council of the Assemblies of God, held in Hot Springs, Arkansas in 1914. Dollie was the youngest, and one of the first women to be ordained in that meeting at age fifteen.
Dollie married Herbert Edward Simms in 1919. To this union, was born three beautiful daughters, Marjorie, Frances, and Charlotte. Together they evangelized, pioneered, and pastored churches for forty-seven years, until his health failed. Brother Simms went to be with the Lord in 1964.
Dollie was the first Arkansas Women's Ministries President, serving from1940 to 1995. For seventy-eight years, Dollie preached, pioneered, and helped to pioneer, thirty-two churches. Twenty-eight of them were in Arkansas. Hundreds of souls were reached as a result of her life and ministry.
Dollie entered Maranatha Village in 1988. Friends who visited her there, were encouraged and fired up, just talking to her. The Pentecostal Fire still burned in her soul.
Dollie serves as a role model for young people today. From the age of twelve to the age of ninety-two. She was faithful to the call of God on her life.
Sister Dollie, as she was lovingly known, transferred her earthly membership to her heavenly home, on March 24, 1991, at the age of ninety-two years. So shall she ever be with her Lord. She leaves a beautiful legacy. Four generations of her family continues to carry the torch of the Gospel into all the world.
Dollie along with the Apostle Paul leaves this testimony to all who come after her. She has fought a good fight, she has finished her course. She has kept the Faith. She has entered into her heavenly home. Forever to be with the Lord.
(Hill, Alice, I Was There When It Happened. pp., 184-185).
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