Today, the denomination founded by Bishop Charles Harrison Mason, the son of former slaves, is the largest Pentecostal denomination in the U.S, with more than 6.5M members.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — He preached in living rooms, in the woods and in a cotton gin.
On Monday, the Church of God in Christ, which is headquartered in Memphis, celebrated its founder, looking back on the life of a man born in West Tennessee in 1864, not far from Memphis, baptized as a teenager into the Missionary Baptist Church and who decided to pursue ministry after surviving a childhood illness.
Mason and another expelled Baptist preacher then formed the Church of God in Christ, which grew to about 110 churches in 1906 throughout Mississippi and Arkansas, with a few in Oklahoma and one in Texas, Daniels said. When Mason returned from the revival, fierce disagreement over the details and meaning of speaking in tongues led to a second split, with Mason taking about 10 churches and keeping the"Church of God in Christ" name.
Although some of Mason's formative years were spent in Arkansas and Mississippi, it was in Memphis in 1907 that the first convening of the Pentecostal General Assembly of the Church of God in Christ was held. Goldie Frinks Wells, former head of a school founded by Mason, said she heard stories of her grandmother, who grew up in North Carolina, hearing Mason preach when visiting her church. He'd pray so long that her grandmother would sneak out of church and sneak back in again. If church members had a dispute, he'd have them pray until there was a resolution.
"I think the growth can only be attributed to the hand of God on Bishop Mason and his willingness to follow the directives the Lord gave him concerning the establishment of the church," said Bishop Charles H. Mason Patterson Sr., pastor of Pentecostal Temple COGIC.
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