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Education and ministry. Charles Sheldon was born in Wellsville, New York. He was a graduate of Phillips Academy, Andover (class of 1879), and of Brown University in 1883. He pastored a church at Waterbury, Vermont, from 1886 to 1888, and in 1889 became pastor of the Central Congregational Church in Topeka, Kansas. [3]
ISBN 9781135884710. In recent years, largely among Protestant and Catholic circles, the catch phrase "What Would Jesus Do" has become popular. The phrase is an attempt to call people to consider how Jesus Christ might respond to personal situations in daily life. While the idea of thinking about Jesus Christ might respond in a given situation ...
The Church of God in Christ was formed in 1897 by a group of disfellowshipped Baptists, most notably Charles Price Jones(1865–1949) and Charles Harrison Mason(1864–1961). In 1895, C. P. Jones and C. H. Mason were licensed Baptist ministers in Mississippiwho began teaching and preaching a Wesleyandoctrine of Christian perfectionor entire ...
Charles Harrison Mason. Bishop Charles Harrison Mason Sr. (September 8, 1866 – November 17, 1961) was an American Holiness – Pentecostal pastor and minister. [1][2] He was the founder and first Senior Bishop of the Church of God in Christ, based in Memphis, Tennessee. It developed into what is today the largest Holiness Pentecostal church ...
O. T. Jones Sr. Ozro Thurston Jones Sr. (March 26, 1891 – September 23, 1972) was a Holiness Pentecostal denomination leader and minister, who was the second Senior Bishop of the Church of God in Christ, Inc. (1962–1968), succeeding Bishop Charles Harrison Mason, who was the founder. The Church of God in Christ (COGIC) is the fourth largest ...
Gilbert E. Patterson. Gilbert Earl Patterson (September 22, 1939 [ 1 ] – March 20, 2007 [ 2 ]) was an American Holiness Pentecostal leader and pastor who 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.
Charles Price Jones. Portrait from The History of Negro Baptists in Mississippi, 1898. Charles Price Jones Sr. (December 9, 1865 – January 19, 1949) was an American religious leader and hymnist. He was the founder of the Church of Christ (Holiness) U.S.A.
The Church of God in Christ (COGIC) is a Holiness-Pentecostal Christian denomination, [1] [2] with a predominantly African-American membership. The denomination reports having more than 12,000 churches and over 6.5 million members in the United States. [3] The National Council of Churches ranks it as the fifth largest Christian denomination in ...