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Elder L. C. Patrick was added to the National Sunday School. In 1945, Bishop S. Crouch of the Northern California Jurisdiction appointed Elder H. C. Johnson as State Sunday School Superintendent who appointed Missionary Lucille Cornelius to be Chairlady, the first woman to lead the supervision of COGIC women in the Sunday School Department.
Internationally, COGIC can be found in more than 100 nations. Its worldwide membership is estimated to be between six and eight million, [5] composing more than 25,000 congregations throughout the world. The following is a list of the geographical dioceses of the denomination, which are called "jurisdictions", and the leader of each.*
Charles Blake was born on August 5, 1940, in Little Rock, Arkansas, to the late Bishop Junious Augustus (J. A.) Blake, Sr. and the late Evangelist Lula M. Blake. He has one older brother, J. A. Blake, Jr., who is also a bishop and pastor in the COGIC denomination in San Diego, California. He became a Christian and converted to Pentecostal ...
It was founded by Elder Clarence E. Church in 1943. [1] The first sanctuary was located on Adams Boulevard, near Interstate 10, known locally as the Santa Monica Freeway.In 1969, after Elder Church's death, Charles E. Blake took over as the pastor of West Angeles.
The World Assemblies of God Fellowship (WAGF) is a global cooperative body of over 170 Pentecostal denominations that was established on August 15, 1989. WAGF was created to provide structure so that member denominations, which previously related to each other informally, could more easily cooperate on a global basis.
John Drew Sheard Jr. (born January 1, 1959) [1] is an American pastor and minister from Detroit, Michigan, who is the current presiding bishop of the Church of God in Christ, a six million-member predominantly African-American Holiness Pentecostal denomination that has now grown to become one of the largest African-American Pentecostal denominations in the United States.
The school began classes in 1918 and eventually became Saint's College. The college was the major institution of higher learning for COGIC youth until closed in 1976. [5] In 1926, Mason further organized COGIC by authorizing the church's constitution outlining the bylaws, rules, and regulations of the church.
The sermon text was Isaiah 59:9; his subject was “We Wait For Light, But We Walk In Darkness”. He was licensed by his father in March 1957, and ordained by Bishop J. S. Bailey on August 28, 1958. In Detroit Patterson graduated from Hutchins Intermediate and Central High School, and attended the Detroit Bible Institute.