In 1946, the National Sunday School Congress began to meet with the Young People's Willing Workers (YPWW) Congress. He testified to receiving entire sanctification after reading her autobiography in 1893. 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]. Finding two groups of women in the church, one group praying known as the Prayer Band, the other group studying and teaching the Word known as the Bible Band, she combined the two under the name of the Prayer and Bible Band. Green. The first youth leader on a national level was Elder M.C. [6], In June 1896, Jones held a Holiness convention at Mt. Her predecessor was Evangelist Dr. Rita Womack of Los Angeles, California. They were given the authority through a "gentlemen's agreement" to license ministers and establish churches under the COGIC name. Despite what seems to be obvious limitations to minister because of ordination, women have been given great latitude and numerous opportunities to serve in ministry in COGIC. [9] This Holiness group/fellowship adopted the name Church of God in Christ, and COGIC began to develop congregations throughout the South. However, his out-spoken criticism of the racial prejudice and discrimination of whites led most, if not all of them, to leave his church for other ministries where the message against racism was not so obvious and offensive to them. The first meeting was held in Memphis, Tennessee around 1937. The study also found that over 70% of COGIC members overwhelmingly opposed the legalizing of same-sex marriage, and considered relationships from infidelity, polygamy, polyamory, and sex outside of marriage as sinful and unbiblical as well.[56]. The Ecclesiastical Jurisdictional Pastors and Elders Council is the gate way to the COGIC Judicial system. All officers are elected by the General Assembly. Under her leadership, the Women's International Convention added the term "and Crusade" to highlight and promote the evangelistic approach of the convention. The most active women's auxiliaries include: Missionary Circle, Hospitality, Executive Hospitality, Hulda Club, Wide Awake Band, Minister's Wives Circle, Deaconess, Deacon's Wives Circle, Prayer Warriors, Young Women's Christian Council, Usher Board, Educational Committee, Boy's League, Big Brothers, Cradle Roll, Women's Chorus, Board of Examiners, Public Relations, News Reporters and the Burners Home and Foreign Mission Bands. 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. COGIC believes in divine healing, however, it does not advocate the exclusion of medical supervision. However, in 1996, the umbrella format was revised under the administration of Bishop C.D. In 1982, Patterson led COGIC in its Diamond Jubilee, in a celebration of the International Holy Convocation. [19], Mason continued to travel across the nation preaching and establishing COGIC churches. We hope you enjoy learning more about the Church leadership and the important role they have in leading God's people. There is one God eternally existent in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Bishop Blake led the COGIC to become a greater global ministry, primarily in Africa and Latin America, while at the same time investing in the inner cities where many COGIC congregations are located. COGIC policies and bylaws have also been established regarding sexual misconduct of COGIC clergy and laymembers for disciplinary purposes. She also established a musical program. In 2010, Bishop Blake led more than 50,000 delegates to the 103rd International Holy Convocation to St. Louis, Missouri. The Office of the Jurisdictional Secretary is responsible for maintaining accurate and detailed records of administrative, ecclesiastical, and civil operations of the Michigan Southwest Third Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction. Owens continued to serve as a jurisdictional bishop and member of the General Board until his death in 2011. The Presiding Bishop is the both the President and the CEO of the corporation, the other eleven members complete the Board of Directors. The Church of God in Christ (COGIC) is a Holiness - Pentecostal Christian denomination, [1] [2] with a predominantly African-American membership. This endorsement allows female chaplains who are serving in the military, working in an institution or jails to perform religious services including funerals and weddings. There are more than 200 ecclesiastical jurisdictions around the world, with 170 in the United States. Amen. Churches are organized in dioceses called jurisdictions, each under the authority of a bishop. Jesse Jackson was invited to speak during the COGIC International Holy Convocation when he was running for the presidency. The current chairman of AIM is Bishop Linwood E. Dillard of Memphis, TN.[62]. B. McEwen was elected chairman of the executive board, and O.T. [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. Together they traveled across the country proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus Christ. 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. She developed the International Women's Convention into a training institute for women in the ministry. Thereafter, missionaries were sent to Africa and the islands of the Caribbean, Asia, and elsewhere. From the very beginning of gospel music, COGIC members have influenced its rise. [31], Bishop Ford also renovated several COGIC structures in Memphis, including Mason Temple. Throughout the 1970s and 80s, as COGIC continued to grow to millions of members nationwide, COGIC ministers all over the country continued to advance civil rights in their communities. These departments include: the Women's Department, the Sunday School Department, the Youth Department known as Y.P.W.W. After the death of Mother McGlothen, Mother Emma F. Crouch (19941997) of Dallas, Texas, served as the fifth General Supervisor. The current president of the Missions Department is Bishop Vincent Mathews Jr. of South Africa. [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. forgot password WARNING!!! The General Board received a summation of the actions of the National Board of Trustees and updates on national properties since November 2018. 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. A. J. O. Patterson Sr. was the Presiding Bishop at that time. In 2017, Presiding Bishop Charles E. Blake appointed gospel artist and Evangelist Dr. Dorinda Clark Cole of Detroit, Michigan as the Elect Lady. Clean White, Jurisdictional Bishop, Bermuda Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction, National Evangelist, Recording Artist, Songwriter, Atlanta, Georgia, This page was last edited on 26 February 2023, at 15:15. 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. On April 3, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I've Been To The Mountaintop" speech, at Mason Temple Church Of God in Christ in Memphis. There was the creation of the Sunday School Field Representative. [50], In July 2016 during their annual Auxiliaries in Ministries convention, COGIC announced their Urban Initiative Outreach ministries and Missions and Charity departments would be partnering up with The Human Coalition, an anti-abortion advocacy group, from 2016 to 2019 for a three-year initiative to encourage COGIC pastors and ministers to encourage anti-abortion advocacy in their local churches. This system HAS BEEN LICENSED FOR USE BY the General Secretary's and Financial Secretary's Offices of the Church Of God In Christ. There is a presiding bishop, known as the chief apostle of the church. [29] The spread of COGIC was due largely to the efforts of its evangelists through crusades and revivals. Mother Willie Mae Rivers served faithfully for 20 years as General Mother until 2017 and the age of 91. In her brief tenure, she encouraged the women to stay focused and supportive to the leadership of the church. According to the Church of God in Christ's official website, the role of the General Board, comprised of 12 bishops, is to establish and execute policies for the COGIC membership, as well as . 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. 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. It also increasingly stressed high academic standards so that its graduates could go to normal school or college, especially to teach other African Americans. [93] Leaders within the COGIC, other denominations and Bishop Blake's own family came to his defense. Mother Deborah Mason Patterson#, daughter of founder, Bishop Mason and wife of first presiding bishop James O. Patterson Sr. Chairman of AIM Bishop Linwood Dillard. Adjutant General Bishop Dickerson L. S. Wells Sr.. General Supervisor, Department of Women Mother Barbara McCoo Lewis. A. Jeter was selected as Overseer of Arkansas. COGIC does not teach that Spirit baptism is the same as salvation. The men selected to lead the Church were chosen by God and the membership of the Church Of God In Christ. Also send a copy to the General Secretary Bishop Lyle. As a Pentecostal church, COGIC teaches that when one is baptized in the Holy Spirit, the believer will experience an initial evidence of speaking in tongues (glossolalia) by the will of God. He appointed regional presidents to serve as liaisons to the jurisdictional presidents. Office of the General Secretary Office of the General Secretary Church Of God In Christ | Memphis TN When she died in 1945, she had laid an impressive foundation for the women's ministry in COGIC. According to the Articles of Religion, "We believe that we are not baptized with the Holy Ghost in order to be saved, but that we are baptized with the Holy Ghost because we are saved". Home; Secretaries Please click on the drop down tab. During the tenure of Bishop G.E. The general assembly elects a 12-person general board (presidium) every four years from the college of bishops, who serve functionally as apostles of the church. During 19101913, two white ministers, Elder H. A. Goss and Elder Leonard P. Adams, were clergy under the authority of C. H. Mason. In 1951, the first separate National Sunday School Convention convened in Kansas City, Missouri. The General Secretary is the official keeper of the COGIC seal, Registered Agent for the Church and signatory on all official documents. The most notable rift occurred in 1969, when fourteen bishops met in Evanston, Illinois, to form the Church of God in Christ, International. The Chairman of the Board of Bishops, CC it to both the Board of Bishop's Secretary and the Chairman of the Grievance Committee. He led a group of students to participate in the March on Selma. White. According to the Articles of Religion in the COGIC Official Manual, COGIC believes in biblical inspiration and holds that the Bible is the supreme and final authority for doctrine and practice. She is also the Jurisdictional Supervisor for the First Jurisdiction, Southern California. The early conventions of the Evangelist Board were basically crusades led by Page and a few other Evangelists from across the country. 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. [60] Units added during her tenure as general supervisor were the: business and Professional Women's Federation, Rescue Squad, Sunday School Representatives Unit, United Sisters of Charity, National Secretaries Unit, and the Jr. Missionaries. We believe that there is One God, eternally existent in three persons, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. Helm Baptist Church in Jackson, Mississippi, attended by Mason and others from several states. In addition to the general board, there is a board of bishops that is composed of all jurisdictional and auxiliary bishops, a national trustee board that is composed of 15 members who are elected for a term of four years, the General Council of Pastors and Elders, which is open to any officially recognized pastor and current credentialed ordained elder in the church. The first general secretary of COGIC was Elder William B. Holt, a white minister. C. D. Owens had gained national attention in the church as the president of the Youth Department. [96][97][98][99], This article is about the Holiness Pentecostal denomination. During his visit, Mason received the baptism of the Holy Ghost; the evidence was believed to be his "speaking in other tongues", in accordance with the biblical account found in the book of Acts 2:4. Vice President of COGIC World Missions-Bishop Glenn Plummer. 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. He is credited with helping to secure the steel needed to construct Mason Temple which was virtually impossible during World War II.[52]. 2nd Assistant Presiding Bishop Bishop Lawrence M. Wooten. In 2000 at the Ninety-Third International Holy Convocation, the COGIC General Assembly elected Bishop Gilbert Earl Patterson to replace Owens as Presiding Bishop. [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. As Pentecostals, the Church believes that demons can be subdued and subjugated through the power of the Holy Spirit in the name of Jesus Christ. [8], In 1897, Elder Mason founded the St. Paul Church in Lexington, Mississippi, as the first church of the new movement. Second Vice Chairman of the National Board of Trustees Attorney Amos Smith. [35], In 2016, the Church had 5.5 million members in 60 countries around the world. During World War I, the FBI opened a file on Bishop Mason and conducted surveillance on him because of his pacifism during the war. According to its 1973 Constitution, the church has two structures to govern the church: civil and ecclesiastical. President, International Department of Missions Bishop Vincent Matthews Jr.. He established the World Fellowship of Black Pentecostal Churches and gained COGIC membership in the Congress of National Black Churches. Mason Theological Seminary to train its ministers and ministry leaders. In addition, the office certifies delegates to the General Assembly, publishes official documents and certificates, maintains the official record of General Assembly proceedings, distributes pertinent information to the constituents of the Church, plays a pivotal role in church: legal matters, collects and reports church statistics, maintains an accurate database of credential holders, officers, churches and jurisdictions, and keeps an archive of historical documents from across the church, including, books, national and jurisdictional records, and photographs and memorabilia of historical value. He established COGIC Charities which has provided thousands of dollars in college scholarships and disaster relief efforts such as Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. For the Anabaptist denomination, see, The official seal of the COGIC features a sheaf of wheat representing the members of the COGIC. Bishop David A. We believe the Bible to be the inspired and only infallible written Word of God. Carter currently posts material on YouTube and Facebook reporting alleged misconduct and impropriety within current leadership of COGIC and other Christian (mainly African-American) denominations. OTHER COGIC clergy are allowed to be married. Clinton is the only US president to have addressed a COGIC convocation at Mason Temple. Gary Lewis was elected to the post of Secretary General on July 29, 2022 at the Church of God International General Assembly in San Antonio, Texas. [29], Bishop Gilbert Earl (G. E.) Patterson began his ministry as co-pastor of the Holy Temple COGIC with his father, Bishop W. A. Patterson. ", 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". Many Holiness Christian groups and fellowships forming at the time wanted biblical names for their local churches and fellowships, such as "Church of God, Church of Christ, or Church of the Living God". Bishop Mason was opposed to the ordination of women to formal ministry, but in 1911 created an autonomous department to promote the ministry of women in the church. "[91] Bishop Blake apologized to a young man (Andrew C. Caldwell) who, following Superintendent Carter's message, came forward to proclaim that he had been delivered from homosexuality. They were also instrumental in establishing 75 churches across the nation. COGIC clergy are also allowed to be married. It has nine members, elected by the general assembly, including three bishops, three elders, and three lay members. Hall Sr. Board member (2021present). During 1910-1913, two white ministers, Elder H. A. Goss and Elder Leonard P. Adams, were clergy under the authority of C. H. Mason. Then in 1946, the YPWW Department was combined with the Sunday School Department for joint conventions until 1951 when they were separated once again. The current Presiding Bishop is Bishop John Drew Sheard Sr., who is the Senior Pastor of the Greater Emmanuel Institutional Church of God in Christ of Detroit, Michigan. She has previously served on the Women's advisory board, Executive Board, steering committee Women's International Convention, General Supervisor's Regional Representative (West Coast Region of the United States), member of the Program Committee then chairperson, Chairperson Special Convention Assistance Committee, National Leadership Conference and Women's Convention Leadership Conference, International Marshall and Assistant General Supervisor. 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. 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