[1][2] Aligned with the conservative holiness movement, the majority of these IHC members are Methodist, though others have a Quaker, Anabaptist or Restorationist background.
[4] Thousands of individuals are present at the Interchurch Holiness Convention's annual international meeting that is usually held in Dayton, Ohio or in Gatlinburg, Tennessee; in addition the Interchurch Holiness Convention hosts regional meetings at local churches in different parts of the world throughout the year.
[8] The convention's concept of Holiness is described in their statement of faith: "the tendency to evil is inherited by every member of the human race.
This crisis is to be accomplished within the believer by the work of the Holy Spirit as He comes in Pentecostal measure, purging out the carnal mind and filling the soul with the fullness of God.
"[10] This experience, the second work of grace, is generally described as entire sanctification that leads to a state of Christian perfection.