Driver, who was the overseer of California and pastor of the Saints Home COGIC led an interracial congregation made up of many Blacks, Whites, and Latinos, for many years. Vice Chairman of the General Assembly Bishop Jerry W. Maynard. The general secretary, general treasurer, and financial secretary terms run concurrent with the current presidential administration that is elected every four years.[20]. After the death of Bishop Mason, he assumed leadership as the Senior Bishop of the Church of God in Christ. ", COGIC teaches that sanctification is a continuous operation of the Holy Spirit, by which he "delivers the justified sinner from the pollution of sin, renews his whole nature in the image of God and enables him to perform good works". Secretary General. Bishop John Drew Sheard Sr., who had previously been elected to the General Board in 2012 and 2016, was reelected to the General Board and subsequently elected as the current Presiding Bishop on March 20, 2021, in the first-ever virtual online election for the denomination. The first youth leader on a national level was Elder M.C. A visionary, she spearheaded the establishment of the multi-million dollar Hale Morris Lewis Manor, a senior citizen complex in Los Angeles, CA. COGIC believes "that if such a case arises, the mother should pray and seek the wisdom and guidance of God and the Holy Spirit on whether or not they should resort to emergency abortion if it is necessary to save her life," but if not, the Church traditionally encourages expecting mothers to "seek God's guidance for other options and choices regarding their unborn child so that they do not have to choose aborting it, and can safely go through with their pregnancy until childbirth. President, International Music Department Dr. Myron Williams, General Assembly and Call Meeting (April) Memphis, General Council of Pastors and Elders (May), International Women's Crusade and Convention (May), Auxiliaries in Ministry (AIM) Conference (July), Bishop Mason's Birthday/Founder's Celebration (September), International Holy Convocation and General Assembly (November), Mother Lizzie Woods Robinson first general supervisor (19111945), Mother Lillian Brooks Coffey second general supervisor and founding president of the Women's International Convention (19461964), Mother Annie L. Bailey third general supervisor (19641975), Mother Mattie McGlothen fourth general supervisor (19751994), Mother Emma F. Crouch fifth general supervisor (19941997), Mother Willie Mae Rivers sixth general supervisor (19972017), Mother Barbara McCoo Lewis seventh general supervisor (2017present), Evangelist Emily Bram Bibby#, longest-serving national female evangelist, Missionary Pearl Paige Brown#, foreign missionary. He led a group of students to participate in the March on Selma. Today however, many church mothers have been reserved to titular positions as many pastor's wives have assumed the role of leader of women's ministries in local congregations. During World War I, the FBI opened a file on Bishop Mason and conducted surveillance on him because of his pacifism during the war. COGIC has always been traditionally anti-abortion. The jurisdictional supervisor is assisted by district missionaries who oversee the women's ministry of the district. We believe that the regeneration by the Holy Ghost is absolutely essential for personal salvation. Bishop Patterson was also to date the youngest person to ever be elected presiding bishop of COGIC at the age of 56; the second youngest was his nephew Gilbert Earl (G.E.) Assistant Financial Secretary Bishop David A. Sanders. [33] C. E. Blake served as the Presiding Prelate of the First Jurisdiction of Southern California. [32], Bishop Chandler David Owens Sr. was elected Presiding Bishop after the death of Bishop Ford in 1995. It can be spoken of as the individual and the collective, physical and spiritual. This group of seven bishops became known officially as the executive commission; they took on greater responsibility over church affairs until Mason's death. These auxiliaries are found in nearly every church, district, and jurisdiction within COGIC and function to support the holistic approach that COGIC has toward ministry within the church and the larger community that COGIC congregations serve. President, International Department of Missions Bishop Vincent Matthews Jr.. During the tenure of Bishop J. O. Patterson Sr. as Presiding Bishop in the 1970s and 80s, Bishop Patterson established several interdenominational Christian schools and seminaries, and helped to establish the World Fellowship of Black Pentecostal Churches and gained COGIC membership in the Congress of National Black Churches as well, a national caucus of Black church denominations that represent different denominations and organizations of the Black Church in America. General Treasurer Bishop Charles Harrison Mason Patterson Sr.. Financial Secretary Bishop Frank A. As COGIC continued to grow, the various departments began the practice of convening annually to conduct the business unique of their ministries. Patterson Sr. in 1989. [44], COGIC teaches that salvation is the work of redemption to the sinner and his restoration to divine favor and communion with God. OTHER COGIC clergy are allowed to be married. Chairman of the General Council of Pastors and Elders Superintendent Michael Eaddy. Divorce is considered inconsistent with biblical teachings and highly discouraged as well. Bishop Mason was pivotal in licensing and credentialing both white and African-American ministers, who spread the Pentecostal message and planted new churches. He self-identifies as Bishop/CEO of his newly organized fellowship called the 7000 Club (not to be confused with The 700 Club from Pat Robertson). The Church may search and retrieve any information stored within this system. To be consistent with progressive measures and modernization, in the Nineties, the international church along with many local COGIC churches began to use the term "youth department" instead of "YPWW. " COGIC clergy do not officially sanction or recognize same-sex relationships to be united in marriage and the denomination at-large discourages same-sex relationships as unbiblical and immoral. [63] The current president of the Department of Evangelism is Bishop Elijah Hankerson III of St. Louis, Missouri. However, in 1996, the umbrella format was revised under the administration of Bishop C.D. The Church of God in Christ (COGIC) is a HolinessPentecostal Christian denomination,[2][4] and the largest Pentecostal denomination in the United States. The rope that holds the shaft together represents Charles Harrison Mason, COGIC's founding father. Missions work in COGIC began under Elder Searcy in 1925. In addition, the Office of the General Secretary is an integral part of all ceremonial activities, inaugurals, celebrations and ecumenical services. [27], Bishop James Oglethorpe Patterson Sr. was elected in November 1968 as the first presiding bishop of the church by the General Assembly at the Sixty-First Holy Convocation of the church. The denomination teaches that God gives life to human beings, biologically and spiritually, through the moment of conception in the womb of the mother, using Jeremiah 1:5, Genesis 1:2627, and Psalms 139:1316 as their scriptural basis for this belief. In 1992, during the Ford administration, UNAC was disbanded in favor of three separate conventions namely: the International Sunday School Convention, the MY Convention (Music and Youth) and the ME Convention (Missions and Evangelism) again meeting in separate cities.. Mother Willie Mae Rivers (19972017) of Goose Creek, South Carolina, succeeded Mother Crouch. Upon his return to Jackson, Mississippi, Mason faced opposition when he recounted his experience. Second Vice Chairman of the National Board of Trustees Attorney Amos Smith. [citation needed] Bishop Ford is credited with inviting President Bill Clinton, a personal friend, to speak to the Eighty-Sixth International Holy Convocation on November 13, 1993. [5] Although an international and multi-ethnic religious organization, it has a predominantly African-American membership based within the United States. [20], In 1926, Mason authorized the church's constitution, outlining the bylaws, rules, and regulations of the church. Clinton is the only US president to have addressed a COGIC convocation at Mason Temple. Dress should be modest and business-formal. (19721994). Lizzie Woods Robinson (19111945) was the first "General Mother" of the church. The General Secretary is the official keeper of the COGIC seal, Registered Agent for the Church and signatory on all official documents. Nurses Aid Ministry nurses taking their skills to the mission field. She was greatly interested in the building of Mason Temple and she kept her national building fund drives functioning until she knew the building was ready for dedication. He testified to receiving entire sanctification after reading her autobiography in 1893. Young, James Brewer, Daniel Spearman, and J. H. Boone. As has been stated, COGIC does not ordain women as elder or bishop, however, COGIC would not have become the largest predominately African-American Pentecostal church in the world, nor have the largest Women's convention of any major denomination without the contributions of women. Salvation is an operation of the Holy Spirit upon sinners brought about by repentance toward God, which brings about conversion, faith, justification, and regeneration. In 1924, the Sunday School was formally organized under "Father" F. C. Christmas (19161944). [29] The spread of COGIC was due largely to the efforts of its evangelists through crusades and revivals. In 1916, a few white churches were organized as a white branch of COGIC. In 1981, Bishop J.O. Bishop Lawrence M. Wooten Second Assistant Presiding Bishop (2021present) and board member (2012present). Church Of God In Christ, Inc. 2015-23. [61] Finally, she changed the visible presence of women in ministry with the introduction of the ministry "habit". In the 1920s, Arizona Dranes, a blind Evangelist Missionary became one of the first gospel artists to bring the musical styles of COGIC to the public in her records for Okeh and performances. The COGIC emphasized the use of the choir as an integral part of the worship experience. National officers of the church are chosen at the general assembly every four years unless special elections are warranted. Users should have no expectation of privacy as to any communication on or information stored within the system, [21], In 1907, there were ten COGIC churches, but by the time of Bishop Mason's death in 1961, COGIC had spread to every state in the United States and to many foreign countries. All officers are elected by the General Assembly. During her leadership, several new buildings were constructed on the 350-acre campus to serve this expansion. Just another Church Of God In Christ, Inc. site. [42], COGIC teaches that angels are messengers sent from God who served during the creation, throughout the Old Testament, the life and ministry of Jesus Christ, the establishment of the church and the ministry of the apostles, and continue to be at work in the Kingdom of God. Since so many new holiness groups and fellowships were forming that used the name "Church of God," C. H. Mason sought a name to distinguish his Holiness group from others. Church mothers have historically served as the leader of the women's ministries in the local congregations. As African Americans migrated north and west to industrial cities during the Great Migration, he began to establish COGIC churches in the north and, especially after 1940, in the west. He appointed regional presidents to serve as liaisons to the jurisdictional presidents. The court ordered the church to convene a constitutional convention in February 1968. [23][24] After Mason's death, in accordance with the 1952 church constitution, the control of the church reverted to the COGIC Board of Bishops. retrieve any information stored within this system. He was assassinated the next day, on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel.[54]. She developed the International Women's Convention into a training institute for women in the ministry. The general assembly is the supreme authority over the church to decide matters of faith and practice. Holy Temple COGIC was the first church to open its doors to the garbage workers. Later, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, ironically known as the "godmother of Rock and Roll," expanded and highlighted the COGIC sound to the greater American public in the 1930s and 1940s. These events include physical death, the intermediate state, bodily resurrection, the Second Coming of Christ, the Great Tribulation, the Battle of Armageddon, the Millennial Reign, the Final Judgment, the future of the wicked in hell, and life for the redeemed in heaven.[48]. Assistant Secretary of the Board of Bishops Bishop Adrian Williams. "[90] This excerpt of Elder Carter's sermon went viral throughout social media and was picked up by major television news broadcasts. Welcome to the Official Church Of God In Christ, Inc Online Store Dismiss. She organized the sewing circle and after meeting Elder Searcy, she encouraged the women to support mission work through the Home and Foreign Mission bands. COGIC teaches that because God uses conception through and after sexual reproduction and intercourse to create human life, that willfully aborting a human fetus is contrary to God's Word and Christian ethics, and it is considered to be a sin against God and the Bible within the denomination. A. Evangelist Missionaries are licensed to preach the gospel, conduct gospel meetings, and may be given the oversight of local congregations serving as the church administrator. Other leaders of the Youth Department who leader became influential leaders of the church included: Bishop F.D. [25], Bishop Ozro Thurston Jones Sr. was pastor of the Holy Temple Church of God in Christ in Philadelphia and the Jurisdictional Bishop of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Jurisdiction. Bishop Joel H. Lyle Jr. General Secretary Church of God in Christ, Inc. 930 Mason Street Memphis, Tennessee 38126 Women in COGIC have been influential in the leadership and organization of the church since its inception. The fastest growing areas include Nigeria, South Africa, Brazil, and India. Today COGIC has more than 12,000 churches, and several schools, missions, and medical clinics in more than eighty nations, including every inhabited continent. Each department convened its own convention in various cities through 1975. He established COGIC Charities which has provided thousands of dollars in college scholarships and disaster relief efforts such as Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Bishop Charles E. Blake, as the Presiding Bishop of the COGIC from the late 2000s up to the 2010s, was also dedicated to increasing and maintaining stable ecumenical relationships from the COGIC with other diverse Christian denominations, most notably Pentecostal/Charismatic churches, Baptist churches, African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Churches, and A.M.E. Zion churches, and even some non-denominational Christian ministries for the purposes of ministry efforts and collaborating on addressing social issues that affect Christians and specifically the Black Church in America, most notably through his Urban Initiatives program. According to its 1973 Constitution, the church has two structures to govern the church: civil and ecclesiastical. She was the wife and companion of Bishop John Seth Bailey, a trusted adviser of Bishop Mason, and later the first assistant presiding bishop of the church. African-American parents sent their children to this school from across the United States, especially those who had grown up in Mississippi and knew its reputation. As previously stated, COGIC although predominately black, had a significant white membership during its first decade of existence, with a number of white ministers holding leadership positions in the church. Co Directors of the Men's Department Bishop Michael B. She began women's work on the state level and appointed the first state mothers. Please note: Fields with ( *) are required. The result of sin is the depravity of man, broken communion with God, shame and guilt, and physical and spiritual death. [2][4] The church teaches three separate and distinct works of grace that God performs in the life of believers: salvation, entire sanctification, and the baptism or infilling of the Holy Ghost. COGIC believes in divine healing, however, it does not advocate the exclusion of medical supervision. On June 5, 1951, he selected Bishop A. C. P. Jones and those Holiness leaders who did not embrace the Azusa Revival experience continued as Holiness churches. In 1982 during the Seventy-Fifth Holy Convocation, the diamond jubilee of the church, COGIC published its own hymnal, Yes, Lord!, which included many arrangements and songs written by COGIC and African-American musicians and songwriters. COGIC teaches the deity of Jesus Christ, his virgin birth, sinless life, physical death, burial, resurrection, ascension and visible return to the earth. In 1975, he resigned as co-pastor, withdrawing his membership in the COGIC because of leadership disagreements with his uncle, J. O. Patterson Sr. concerning an establishment of another jurisdiction in the city of Memphis. President, International Department of Evangelism Evangelist Gary Sprewell, Elect Lady, International Department of Evangelism . Amen. He called for an annual gathering of COGIC members, known as the "International Holy Convocation", to be held in Memphis. During 19101913, two white ministers, Elder H. A. Goss and Elder Leonard P. Adams, were clergy under the authority of C. H. Mason. Email: cogsecgeneral@churchofgod.org. [12] Mason stayed in Los Angeles for five weeks and his visit to the Azusa Street Revival changed the direction of the newly formed holiness church. [15], In 1951, when Bishop Mason was approaching 85 years of age, he set up a "special commission" to help with the administration and oversight of the church. During the tenure of Bishop L. H. Ford as Presiding Bishop in the 1990s, he helped gain COGIC membership into the Pentecostal/Charismatic Churches of North America, a more diverse, international caucus of different Pentecostal church denominations and organizations that sought to heal the racial divides in the North American Pentecostal movement.[57]. Each state in the US consists of at least one jurisdiction, and several states have more than one jurisdiction. Their pastor was then elder Gilbert Earl Patterson, who also became a COGIC Presiding Bishop, at Holy Temple COGIC in Memphis, Tennessee. [8], In 1897, Elder Mason founded the St. Paul Church in Lexington, Mississippi, as the first church of the new movement. During the 1940s and 50s, Bishop Mason often invited the white elected officials of the city of Memphis to the International Holy Convocation on Civic Night. Vice Chairman of the National Judiciary Board Bishop Enoch Perry. Pentecostals have been criticized because of their noticeable absence from the official record of activism that has been largely overshadowed by black ministers of other denominations such as Baptists and Methodists; however, there is evidence to verify and document the role and response of COGIC ministers and other Pentecostal denominations to the cause and struggle for Civil Rights in the United States during the 20th Century. General Secretary Bishop Joel H. Lyles Jr.. Chairman of the General Assembly Bishop Lemuel F. Thuston. Battles served as president until his death in December 1996. Bishop Sedgwick Daniels Board member (2008present). World headquarters are in Memphis, Tennessee at Mason Temple. They were given the authority through a "gentlemen's agreement" to license ministers and establish churches under the COGIC name. On October 23, 2020, Bishop Blake announced that he will not seek a re-election as Presiding Bishop nor as a member of the General Board and that he would retire from the Office of Presiding Bishop and from the General Board in 2021.[34]. [47] COGIC regards homosexuality, infidelity, and any other forms of sexual immorality that does not agree with Biblical scripture as sinful. Bishop Mason taught COGIC members against going to war, but more so he was against African-American men being called to fight a war overseas for freedom and then coming home and being treated as second-class citizens and being lynched, even in their uniforms, because of racism. For a brief period of time, the YPWW Congress was combined with the Sunday School Congress in a joint convention until 1951. By that time, it was known as Saints Academy and Junior College. In April 2018, Presiding Bishop Charles Blake along with Lee Saunders, Andrew Young, DeMaurice Smith, and Brian Dunn coordinated the "I AM 2018 Mountaintop Conference" at the historic Mason Temple in Memphis to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. COGIC believes marriage is a monogamous sacred, civil, and legal union between a husband and wife that is recognized as a covenant between them and God for the purpose of the couple being a helpmate to each other and raising a family together. Together they traveled across the country proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The early pioneers of this newly formed Holiness-Pentecostal body in 1907 were E. R. Driver, J. Bowe, R. R. Booker, R. E. Hart, W. Welsh, A. Southern California Second Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction. We believe that the only means of being cleansed from sin is through repentance and faith in the precious Blood of Jesus Christ. [26], The parties filed lawsuits in the Chancery Court of Shelby County, Tennessee, to resolve the legitimate authority of the denomination. The international headquarters is in Memphis, Tennessee. The ordinances of the church are water baptism by immersion, the Lord's Supper and foot washing. forgot password WARNING!!! In 1997, Bishop Chandler D. Owens appointed Evangelist Richard "Mr. Clean" White as president of the Department of Evangelism. The Voice of Missions a bimonthly magazine, John Seth Bailey#, general board member, jurisdictional bishop, Michigan Southwest Jurisdiction; pastor, Bailey Cathedral, Detroit, MI, Elmer Elijah Cleveland#, jurisdictional bishop, Northern California Jurisdiction, pastor, Ephesians, Oakland, CA, Bishop David Willard Grayson, Sr#, Jurisdictional Bishop of Maine, Founding Jurisdictional Bishop of Eastern New York Fourth, David Daniels, educator, professor, auxiliary bishop, James Logan Delk#, politician, pastor, First, Hopkinsville, KY, James Louis Felton, auxiliary bishop, pastor, Mount Airy, Philadelphia, PA, James Neaul Haynes#, general board member, jurisdictional bishop, Texas Northeast First Jurisdiction; pastor, Saintsville, Dallas, TX, Roderick Hennings, author, auxiliary bishop, pastor, Zion Dominion Global Ministries, Amherst, NY, William Morgan James#, general board member, jurisdictional bishop, Ohio North First Jurisdiction, pastor, St. James, Toledo, OH and James Temple, Cincinnati, OH, Orzo Thurston Jones Jr.#, general board member, jurisdictional bishop, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Jurisdiction; pastor, Holy Temple, Philadelphia, PA, Otha Miema Kelly#, general board member, jurisdictional bishop, Eastern New York First Jurisdiction; pastor, Kelly Temple, Harlem, NY, Otis Lockett#, church planter, jurisdictional bishop, North Carolina Second Jurisdiction, pastor, Evangel Word Fellowship, Greensboro, NC, George Dallas McKinney#, scholar, general board member, jurisdictional bishop, Southern California Second Jurisdiction; pastor, St. Stephen's Cathedral, San Diego, CA, S.E. There is one God eternally existent in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Jurisdictions range in size between 30 and 100 churches. The Church may search and retrieve any information stored within this system. [37] The National Council of Churches ranks it as the fifth largest Christian denomination in the U.S.[38] COGIC is a HolinessPentecostal Christian denomination,[2][4] with a predominantly African-American membership. William B. Holt was appointed as General Superintendent. Mother Lillian Coffey appointed Mother Reatha Herndon as president of the National Women's Evangelist Board in 1951. We believe in the sanctifying power of the Holy Spirit, by whose indwelling a Christian is enabled to live a holy and separated life in the present world. She revolutionized and reorganized the music ministry to become a leading department in the church. The General Secretary. She served as chairperson of the board of supervisors, member, Executive Board, member, Screening Committee, member, Program Committee General Church, coordinator, Leadership Conference, International Marshall, secretary, and Assistant General Supervisor for the Department of Women. We hope you enjoy learning more about the Church leadership and the important role they have in leading God's people. White. Demons exist as manifestation of evil or unclean spirits. They are the largest department in the COGIC. In 2010, Bishop Blake led more than 50,000 delegates to the 103rd International Holy Convocation to St. Louis, Missouri. [29] In 1926, upon the recommendation of Mother Lizzie Roberson, Elder C. G. Brown of Kansas City Missouri, was appointed the first Executive Secretary-Treasurer of the Home and Foreign Missions Department by Bishop C. H. Mason. COGIC Bishop Alvin A. Childs of the Faith Temple Church of God in Christ (later renamed Child's Memorial in his honor) was the clergyman who finally opened his doors. It has had rapid growth in many regions as one of the fastest-growing and largest religious groups in the United States.[30]. Patterson, the nephew of the above-mentioned Bishop J.O. Home; Secretaries Please click on the drop down tab. He was a strong advocate for social justice. 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