PW-FA-001Transcribed recordLedgerFounding Archive
Darlene Promise's yellow-pad calculation for the first month's rent, utilities, borrowed chairs, and the offering that did not yet cover them.
- Record era
- Founding era · First service weekend
- Source
- Chapter One
- Darlene Promise
- Beau Promise
- Mrs. Frazier
- Earl Benton
Open catalog recordPW-FA-002Selected excerptContractFounding Archive
The agreement that placed Promise World inside Vernon Slade's abandoned tire shop for one hundred and fifty dollars a month.
- Record era
- Founding era · Before the first service
- Source
- Chapter One
- Beau Promise
- Darlene Promise
- Vernon Slade
Open catalog recordPW-FA-003Selected excerptSermonFounding Archive
The founding sermon in which Beau named a church, school, broadcast, and highway sign while sixteen people sat inside a failed tire shop.
- Record era
- Founding era · First Sunday
- Source
- Chapter One
- Beau Promise
- Darlene Promise
- Mrs. Frazier
- Mr. Talley
Open catalog recordBroadcastFounding Archive
The early camera record that turned a local service into a message capable of leaving the county road.
- Record era
- Early broadcast era
- Source
- Chapters One and Three
- Leon Vick
- Beau Promise
- Darlene Promise
Open catalog recordPhotographFounding Archive
A cataloged image of the first congregation, borrowed chairs, pallet platform, and open service bay.
- Record era
- Founding era · First Sunday
- Source
- Chapter One
- Beau Promise
- Darlene Promise
- Leon Vick
- Earl Benton
Open catalog recordMemoFounding Archive
One of the mimeographed bulletins Darlene carried into the tire shop before the first Promise World service.
- Record era
- Founding era · First Sunday
- Source
- Chapter One
- Darlene Promise
- Beau Promise
- Leon Vick
Open catalog recordPW-FA-007Transcribed recordPersonal ObjectFounding Archive
The former tire advertisement repainted with WORSHIP 10:30 while the old ninety-nine-dollar offer remained faintly visible beneath it.
- Record era
- Founding era · Before the first service
- Source
- Chapter One
- Beau Promise
- Darlene Promise
Open catalog recordPW-FA-008Transcribed recordLedgerFounding Archive
The forty-two borrowed chairs that made the tire shop look briefly prepared to receive more people than it could afford.
- Record era
- Founding era · Saturday before the first service
- Source
- Chapter One
- Darlene Promise
- Beau Promise
Open catalog recordMemoFounding Archive
A reconstructed service record for the loose wire Leon Vick found inside one of Promise World's two borrowed speakers.
- Record era
- Founding era · Saturday before the first service
- Source
- Chapter One
- Leon Vick
- Beau Promise
- Darlene Promise
Open catalog recordPW-FA-010Transcribed recordLedgerFounding Archive
Darlene's separation of cash, checks, a postdated check, and a promised gift after Promise World's first offering.
- Record era
- Founding era · After the first service
- Source
- Chapter One
- Darlene Promise
- Beau Promise
- Mrs. Frazier
- Earl Benton
Open catalog recordPW-FA-011Transcribed recordMemoFounding Archive
The supported figures and guarantees behind the fifth bank's decision to finance the tire-shop property.
- Record era
- Early property-purchase era
- Source
- Chapter One
- Beau Promise
- Darlene Promise
- Ray Dawson
- Harold Bledsoe
Open catalog recordBroadcastFounding Archive
A catalog record for the schedule that carried Promise World services beyond the county road as the television ministry formed.
- Record era
- Early broadcast era
- Source
- Chapters One and Three
- Leon Vick
- Beau Promise
- Darlene Promise
Open catalog recordMemoFounding Archive
The unrecovered repair estimate associated with the roof Promise World left leaking while television equipment was purchased.
- Record era
- Early television-ministry era
- Source
- Chapter One
- Beau Promise
- Darlene Promise
- Leon Vick
- Promise World Staff
Open catalog recordPW-GL-001Selected excerptMemoGovernance and Legal Archive
An internal transfer record showing money moved through the Family Center before payroll and board review.
- Record era
- Family Center era
- Source
- Chapters Five, Seven, Eight, and Ten
- Beau Promise
- Joshua Promise
- Darlene Promise
- Marissa Chen
Open catalog recordPW-GL-002Transcribed recordIncident ReportGovernance and Legal Archive
Nora Bellamy's report identifying the known closure order, the defective balcony exit, Calvin Moore's injury, and Beau Promise as the person authorizing continued use.
- Record era
- Christmas production · First performance night
- Source
- Chapter Seven
- Calvin Moore
- Nora Bellamy
- Beau Promise
- Leon Vick
Open catalog recordPW-GL-003Selected excerptBoard RecordGovernance and Legal Archive
The board action limiting Beau's spending authority and requiring independent approval for family contracts, legal payments, and private property use.
- Record era
- After the state referral and preservation warning
- Source
- Chapter Seven
- Henry Cole
- Beau Promise
- Eden Promise
- Leon Vick
Open catalog recordPW-GL-004Transcribed recordLegal RecordGovernance and Legal Archive
The attorney general's preliminary letter instructing Promise World to preserve records while the state decided whether to open a formal investigation.
- Record era
- After the county public-benefit referral
- Source
- Chapter Seven
- Beau Promise
- Mr. Weller
- Samuel Price
- Calvin Moore
Open catalog recordLegal RecordGovernance and Legal Archive
A consolidated schedule of family employment, related companies, ministry contracts, health-account exceptions, and transactions later reviewed as one governance system.
- Record era
- Accounting review and formal investigation era
- Source
- Chapters Five, Six, Eight, and Ten
- Beau Promise
- Darlene Promise
- Joshua Promise
- Eden Promise
Open catalog recordPW-GL-006Selected excerptLegal RecordGovernance and Legal Archive
The property-use record for the Florida house, including ministry explanations, family use, public-benefit questions, court restrictions, and the later sale requirement.
- Record era
- County review, family-court, and investigation era
- Source
- Chapters One, Six, Seven, Ten, and Thirteen
- Beau Promise
- Darlene Promise
- Eden Promise
- Samuel Price
Open catalog recordPW-GL-007Transcribed recordLegal RecordGovernance and Legal Archive
The city fire inspector's closure order identifying a defective emergency door and prohibiting use of the upper balcony until repair and reinspection.
- Record era
- Christmas production · Before the first performance
- Source
- Chapter Seven
- Leonard Bell
- Nora Bellamy
- Beau Promise
- Mr. Weller
Open catalog recordPW-GL-008Selected excerptLegal RecordGovernance and Legal Archive
Samuel Price's county review of property use, tax exemption, public support, private benefit, and the services Promise World opposed until its own people needed them.
- Record era
- After the accounting review and balcony violation
- Source
- Chapter Seven
- Samuel Price
- Beau Promise
- Calvin Moore
- Daniel
Open catalog recordPW-GL-009Transcribed recordLegal RecordGovernance and Legal Archive
The compulsory attorney-general demand requiring six years of records from Promise World, related companies, board members, and Beau Promise by a fixed deadline.
- Record era
- Tuesday morning · Formal investigation begins
- Source
- Chapter Ten
- Beau Promise
- Mr. Weller
- Marissa Chen
- Eden Promise
Open catalog recordPW-GL-010Selected excerptLegal RecordGovernance and Legal Archive
A hearing record placing Beau's explanations of property, family payments, medicine, equal value, and unequal care into a public accountability forum.
- Record era
- Public hearing on charitable organizations and financial transparency
- Source
- Chapter Ten
- Beau Promise
- Marlene
- Daniel
- Leah
Open catalog recordPW-GL-011Selected excerptLegal RecordGovernance and Legal Archive
The civil complaint alleging misuse of charitable assets, improper private benefits, false statements, unsafe governance, deceptive fundraising, and failures of board oversight.
- Record era
- Months after the formal demand
- Source
- Chapter Ten
- Beau Promise
- Henry Cole
- Mr. Weller
- Calvin Moore
Open catalog recordPW-GL-012Transcribed recordLegal RecordGovernance and Legal Archive
The settlement terms allowing Promise World to remain open while requiring repayment, property sales, outside oversight, board restructuring, protected care funding, and Beau's removal from management and financial control.
- Record era
- After civil charges and before the final gathering
- Source
- Chapter Thirteen
- Beau Promise
- Henry Cole
- Micah Promise
- Mr. Weller
Open catalog recordPW-NM-001Transcribed recordLetterNational Movement Archive
A retired teacher's one-hundred-dollar gift and request to stand with Beau in person at a future gathering.
- Record era
- After civil charges were filed
- Source
- Chapter Ten
- Mrs. Halley
- Beau Promise
- Eden Promise
- Micah Promise
Open catalog recordPW-NM-002Transcribed recordPurpose CardNational Movement Archive
The first serialized gold Purpose Card, assigned to Reverend Beau Promise as founder of the Admitted Purpose message.
- Record era
- American Purpose Foundation launch era
- Source
- Chapter Twelve
- Beau Promise
- Eden Promise
- Grant Halper
- Mrs. Weaver
Open catalog recordPW-NM-003Selected excerptCampaign MaterialNational Movement Archive
The fundraising appeal that converted the attorney general's formal investigation into a test of whether any believer could lead without hostile permission.
- Record era
- Formal investigation era
- Source
- Chapter Ten
- Marlene
- Beau Promise
- Eden Promise
- Mr. Weller
Open catalog recordPW-NM-004Transcribed recordPersonal ObjectNational Movement Archive
The classroom box where fourth-grade students placed questions they were afraid to ask aloud.
- Record era
- Purpose Seal school-certification era
- Source
- Chapter Twelve
- Anna Price
- Lily
- Grant Halper
- Beau Promise
Open catalog recordCampaign MaterialNational Movement Archive
The arena program that arranged sponsors, cameras, political recognition, the Purpose Pledge, and more than ten thousand people into one national proof of belonging.
- Record era
- National Purpose Revival era
- Source
- Chapter Eleven
- Beau Promise
- Eden Promise
- Leon Vick
- Micah Promise
Open catalog recordPW-NM-006Selected excerptBoard RecordNational Movement Archive
The organizational packet separating the pledge, trademarks, training, licensing, and donor governance from Promise World while preserving Beau as founder and spiritual chairman.
- Record era
- Foundation launch era
- Source
- Chapter Twelve
- Beau Promise
- Eden Promise
- Grant Halper
- Pastor Raymond Cole
Open catalog recordPW-NM-007Selected excerptContractNational Movement Archive
The standards used to certify churches, schools, companies, charities, candidates, and hospitals as aligned partners of the American Purpose Foundation.
- Record era
- Certified Purpose Partner era
- Source
- Chapter Twelve
- Grant Halper
- Eden Promise
- Beau Promise
- Pastor Raymond Cole
Open catalog recordPW-NM-008Transcribed recordMemoNational Movement Archive
The foundation guidance created after Mrs. Weaver declined the pledge and lost her church-school committee position.
- Record era
- Purpose Card adoption era
- Source
- Chapter Twelve
- Mrs. Weaver
- Pastor Raymond Cole
- Grant Halper
- Carlos
Open catalog recordPW-NM-009Selected excerptCampaign MaterialNational Movement Archive
The voter guide that marked candidates gold when they answered correctly and labeled refusal, delay, clarification, or silence as Purpose Not Admitted.
- Record era
- Foundation voter-guide era
- Source
- Chapter Twelve
- Grant Halper
- Eden Promise
- Beau Promise
Open catalog recordPW-NM-010Selected excerptMemoNational Movement Archive
The employment record created after Anna Price asked what she was promising not to oppose and offered to stand silently while her fourth-grade students recited the pledge.
- Record era
- Promise World Academy certification era
- Source
- Chapter Twelve
- Anna Price
- Lily
- Grant Halper
- Beau Promise
Open catalog recordPW-NM-011Transcribed recordContractNational Movement Archive
The stronger pledge requiring certified leaders not only to support purpose but to stand against those who opposed it.
- Record era
- Leadership certification era
- Source
- Chapter Twelve
- Beau Promise
- Eden Promise
- Grant Halper
- Micah Promise
Open catalog recordPW-NM-012Transcribed recordMemoNational Movement Archive
The speech draft from which Beau's sentence identifying himself and the National Purpose Revival as the movement's birthplace was repeatedly removed.
- Record era
- Washington office era
- Source
- Chapter Twelve
- Beau Promise
- Eden Promise
- Grant Halper
Open catalog recordBroadcastNational Movement Archive
Leon Vick's production plan for the last room willing to let Beau speak without foundation approval.
- Record era
- Final Gathering
- Source
- Chapter Fourteen
- Leon Vick
- Beau Promise
- Darlene Promise
- Joshua Promise
Open catalog recordPersonal ObjectNational Movement Archive
Seven physical keys Beau placed into Henry's hand after telling the final gathering what he wanted and refusing to take an offering.
- Record era
- Final Gathering
- Source
- Chapter Fourteen
- Beau Promise
- Henry Cole
- Darlene Promise
- Joshua Promise
Open catalog recordBoard RecordNational Movement Archive
The institutional handoff connecting the settlement, founder-emeritus status, board control, Eden's removal decision, and Beau's surrender of the seven keys.
- Record era
- Settlement and founder-removal era
- Source
- Chapters Thirteen and Fourteen
- Beau Promise
- Eden Promise
- Henry Cole
- Darlene Promise
Open catalog record