Original Church of Jesus Christ

[CC1]

Originally Posted by rgcraig

I just reread her post too - she might be talking of other groups other than COGIC.

I am sure she is. She was a member of one or two black Oneness org.s in the past if I remember correctly.

Everybody in Pentecost knows COGIC and G.E. Patterson!!

[Barb]

Originally Posted by CC1

I bet if you do a little checking you will find that the COOLJC is very regionalized. Do they have a website that lists churches, etc?

I am just saying that in any book I have ever read about the different Pentecostal groups both trinitarian and oneness I have never seen that name pop up and I personally in 48 years of being in or around Oneness Pentecost had never heard of it. That is not to say they don't have some good size churches somewhere but I am talking about total numbers of churches and adherents. They don't make a blip on the radar. The UPC only clamins something like 500,000 ahderents in North America and they and the PAW are the two biggest Oneness org.'s by far.

Originally Posted by CC1

I did not realize that was who she was talking about. I thought she was talking about COOLJ or some such abbreviated group.

Of course THE GOGINC is huge. They are also not Oneness and we were talking about Oneness groups.

Originally Posted by rgcraig

I just reread her post too - she might be talking of other groups other than COGIC.

Yes, I am speaking of the Church Of Our Lord Jesus Christ of the Apostolic Faith. And yes, they have a website, CC...

[Scott Hutchinson]

Who are these folks ?
http://truthofgod.com

[CC1]

Originally Posted by Barb

Yes, I am speaking of the Church Of Our Lord Jesus Christ of the Apostolic Faith. And yes, they have a website, CC...

Then don't just stand there talking about it woman, post a link!!!!!

[Barb]

Originally Posted by CC1

Then don't just stand there talking about it woman, post a link!!!!!

cooljc.org

[CC1]

Cool.

Jc.

[retsambeW]

Mark Lawson did indeed found The Church of Jesus Christ ministerial organization in 1927. I do not know why, but it was re-organized in 1934 by Mark Lawson and the bishop board at that time. Without going into specifics, suffice it to say, the group splintered several times.

The First Church of Jesus Christ org out of Tullahoma, TN is one of the slpinters. The superintendent of this group is Bishop Honea. The Church of Jesus Christ from the Dyersburg area now has it's headquarters in Portage, Indiana. The superintendent is Bishop Spence. The 1927 org has a church in Dyersburg, also, but I do not recall the pastor's name.

There are more groups, but I do not recall all of them without looking them up. The most baffling one is the one started by Boyd Lawson in the 1970's. Boyd (so I have heard) claims to retain the original charter, but the group from Kingsport keeps tremendous records, and has the paperwork, and is current in Nashville as the original 1927 org. Most of the original churches (the ones that still exists anyway) are with the Kingsport group.

[CC1]

My cursory quick survey of their directory shows a regional concentration in the Southeast and East with also significant numbers of churches in Texas and 13 churches in CA. There are no churches at all in most Western and central states. That is logical as they have small black populations and are not in the Bible belt.

It appears there are about 400 churches in the directory total. If the average church size is 100 that would mean about 40,000 members.

[Barb]

Originally Posted by CC1

My cursory quick survey of their directory shows a regional concentration in the Southeast and East with also significant numbers of churches in Texas and 13 churches in CA. There are no churches at all in most Western and central states. That is logical as they have small black populations and are not in the Bible belt.

It appears there are about 400 churches in the directory total. If the average church size is 100 that would mean about 40,000 members.

Solomon's Temple in Detroit I would estimate has a couple thousand and the same with Refuge Temple in Harlem...Refuge in Louisville at one time (when I was affilitated) ran 2 or 3 hundred...maybe more...

[Sam]

Originally Posted by CC1

I bet if you do a little checking you will find that the COOLJC is very regionalized. Do they have a website that lists churches, etc?
...

There is a website for The Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ of the Apostolic Faith
http://www.cooljc.org/

There may be others with similar names