Nehemiah Corporation of America
Nehemiah Corporation of America is a non-profit organization based in Sacramento, California specializing in homeownership, affordable housing and community development. It started in 1994 as a small organization, but grew to prominence later in the 1990s after it developed a program that allowed home buyers to make down payments on their purchases using funds that were derived from the home sellers. This program, the Nehemiah Program, became popular and was widely emulated, giving birth to what came to be known as the seller-funded down-payment assistance industry. The industry attracted criticism from U.S. federal agencies (particularly the Government Accountability Office and the Internal Revenue Service) and was ultimately shut down in 2008 by a change in federal law.
Fred A. Hillery
Hillery founded "Beulah Items" in September 1888 in Providence, Rhode Island, and served as editor. In May 1892 "Beulah Items" was merged with the "Bible Christian" edited by Congregational pastor Rev. Ezra B. Pike, with the "Beulah Items" and the "Bible Christian" both discontinued in favour of the "Beulah Christian" and both Hillery and Pike listed as editors. After the formation of the Association of Pentecostal Churches of America, the Beulah Christian became its official publication. From September 1904 the "Beulah Christian" was published weekly. There were attempts to merge the Beulah Christian with the Nazarene Messenger and other publications of the antecedent groups that formed the Pentecostal Church of the Nazarene into a new publication, the "Herald of Holiness", but Hillery believed the offer to purchase the equipment and other assets of the "Beulah Christian" was inadequate. Nazarenes were encouraged to support the fledgling "Herald of Holiness", which adversely affected subscriptions to the "Beulah Christian", which prompted Hillery to merge the "Beulah Christian" with the "Pentecostal Era and National Advocate of Perfect Love", which had been founded in August 1901 by Henry B. Hosley, then superintendent of the Washington D.C. District of the Church of the Nazarene and pastor of the Wesleyan Pentecostal Church of the Nazarene. to form the "Pentecostal Christian". The last edition of the "Beulah Christian" was December 9, 1911, and the first edition under the new name was on December 23, 1911, under the editorial control of Hosley. Hosley left the Church of the Nazarene in 1913, and the "Pentecostal Christian" was discontinued in December 1915.