Led to the Mountains: The Church of God in Christ Comes to Utah

ALAN J. CLARK holds a doctorate degree from the department of religion at Claremont Graduate University, with emphases in North American religious history, global Pentecostalism, and the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He received his BA from Arizona State University and his MA from Brigham Young University. His interests include religion in the Intermountain West, Pentecostalism, and Latter-day Saint history in the Progressive Era.

HENRY MCALLISTER JR. is currently retired from Hill Air Force Base, where he had been employed for nearly forty three years. Pastor McAllister accepted his call into the Gospel ministry in 1985. The following year he became a licensed a minister in the Church of God in Christ by the late Superintendent David Griffin, and he was ordained an Elder. In 1996 he was appointed Pastor of the Finley Temple (Journey of New Beginnings) Church of God in Christ. He earned a BS degree in Accounting and Business Administration from the University of Arkansas in 1977 and was selected to the “Who's Who in American Colleges and Universities” that same year.