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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.
Licensed to preach in 1959, Ted Thomas Sr. served the Church of God in Christ in varying capacities as a minister of music, pastor of several COGIC churches in Virginia, a church musician (Hammond Organ, piano, and drums), a State Sunday School Superintendent, a District Superintendent, and an Administrative Assistant to the famed COGIC ...
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.
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.
Apr. 5—The Morris Central School District will soon have a new superintendent. The district's Board of Education appointed Jamie Maistros to the position at a meeting March 31, according to a ...
Gilbert Earl Patterson (September 22, 1939 [1] – March 20, 2007 [2]) was an American Holiness Pentecostal leader and pastor.He served as the founding pastor of the Temple of Deliverance COGIC Cathedral of Bountiful Blessings, one of the largest COGIC churches in the Eastern United States, from 1975 to 2007.
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.