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Church Of God In Christ History
Church Of God In Christ International Music Department Heads
1950 - Present
The Church Of God In Christ and music have always gone hand in hand. Bishop Mason loved Music, and he loved all types of Music. His favorite singer was the Blind Evangelist Arizona Dranes (Mother of Gospel Music), who often sang during the Holy Convocation.
The COGIC Church always had a rich, deep roster of Music Pioneers, Gospel Giants, and Famous Celebrities. Such as Bishop C.P. Jones, Blind Willie Johnson, Two Wings Utah Smith, Elder Charles D. Beck, The Gay Sisters, Madame Earnestine Washington, Marion Williams, Kitty Parham, Ida Baker, The OâNeal Twins, Billy Preston, Mega Superstar Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Global Superstars Andrae and Sandra Crouch, Walter Hawkins and Edwin Hawkins, Tramaine Hawkins, The Clark Sisters, Bishop Rance Allen, Vanessa Bell Armstrong, Rev. James Moore, Douglas Williams, Pop Winans, Rev. Timothy Wright, Kim Burrell, Blinky Williams, Kierra Sheard, Jonathan McReynolds, Lizzo, Missy Elliot, Pharrell Williams, Michelle Williams, Teddy Riley, Sylvester, Ronnie Dyson, Kurt Carr, Daryl Coley, Pastor Donnie McClurkin, Benny Cummings, Lashun Pace, The Anointed Pace Sisters, Deleon Richards Sheffield, Mary Mary, J. Moss, Micah Stampley, Ricky Dillard, Kelly Price, Bishop G.E. Patterson, Dr. Bettye Nelson, Evangelist Goldia Haynes, Supervisor Rubenstein McClure, Yvette Flunder, Sara Jordan Powell, Myrna Summers, Thomas Whitfield, Deniece Williams, Bishop Paul S. Morton, Tamela Mann, Earnest Pugh, Jabari Johnson, Dr. Vernard Johnson (saxophonist), Corey Henry (Organ), Detroit Gary Wiggins, The Nevel Sisters, Rose Marie Rimson-Brown, Dr. Holly Carter, Dr. Mattie Moss Clark, Dr. Judith McAllister, Dr. Myron Williams, Dr. Juanita Bynum, Chrystal Rucker, Joe Tex, Bishop Norman Hutchins, Stevie Wonder, Natalie Cole, Penny Ford, Charlie Wilson, David Daughtry, Markita Knight, Chrystal Aikin, Evangelist Ruby Terry, Evangelist Carol Thomas, Bishop Carlton Pearson, Mother Vernon Oliver Price, Evangelist Frances Kelley, Patrick Henderson, Elder James Lenox, Keith Pringle, Shelby 5, Audrey DuBois Harris, Bishop Frank A. White Etc.
1949/1950 - Present Day
Lady Deborah Mason Patterson -
One of the daughters of Bishop Mason and wife to Presiding Bishop J.O. Patterson Sr., Mason's daughter was a pioneer of the COGIC Music Department along with Sister Mattie Wiggley and Sister Jesse Jimerson. During this period, Deborah Mason Patterson, Anna Broy Crockett Ford, and Bishop C.T. James were the three heads of the National Choir.
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Bishop C.T. James - 1951 to 1955
In 1951, Bishop Mason appointed Elder C.T. James to serve as the first National Director of Music. He later became Director of the National Chorus under Anna B. Crockett Ford. At his height, he had over 1 million radio listeners until his demise in the early '60s. (For some reason, his name was erased from the history of the COGIC Music Department; not many today have heard of him, and most would disagree with me on him ever being the National Director of Music, but my information comes from the COGIC Whole Truth and newspaper articles which have confirmed him to at one point being the first National Director of the COGIC Music Department).
Anna Crockett Ford - 1955 to 1968/1972
- Bishop Mason appointed Mother Ford as the National Music Department President in 1955. She served in that position until 1968/72. She is a singer and songwriter. One of her works is the standard "I Was Glad When They Said Unto Me. (Dr. Ford doesn't get enough credit for being a powerful pioneer in the COGIC Music Department. Instead of National, her title should have been International Music Department President since the COGIC Church has always been International).
Dr. Mattie Moss Clark 1968/72 -1994
- Her legacy has created and helped to shape some of the most successful gospel artists, including Vanessa Bell Armstrong, Donald Vails, Commissioned, Bishop Richard âMr. Cleanâ White, Elder James Lenox, Psalmist Bettye Ransom Nelson, Esther Smith, Keith Pringle, Bishop Rance Allen, Rev. James Moore and her own daughters, The Clark Sisters. Dr. Clark made a series of recordings beginning with "Going to Heaven to Meet the King" in 1958, becoming the first person to commit the sounds of a choir to record. She is the first to separate vocal parts into soprano, alto, and tenor. She received three gold-certified albums with the Southwest Michigan State Choir and went on to write and arrange hundreds of songs and record over 50 albums. After his elevation as the first elected Presiding Bishop, The late Bishop J. O. Patterson, Sr. appointed Dr. Clark the President of the International Music Department in 1968. Dr. Clark completely revolutionized the music departments. She defined the role of the (Jurisdictional) State Minister of Music, traveled year-round to every state in the country, conducting workshops, rehearsals, and musicals to prepare choirs for service on the National Church level, and organized the structure of the National Music Convention of the Church of God in Christ. Dr. Clark introduced the workshop and seminar concept to the convention and, along with her staff, structured classes and created âA Song Is Born,â the program where new talent was introduced before thousands. She was also one of the editors and contributors to the hymnal published by the Church Of God In Christ entitled âYes, Lord.â
Sister LuVonia Whittley - 1994 to 2001
- Sister LuVonia Whittley of Chicago was appointed President of the COGIC Music Department in 1994. She is recognized for building a music department to include close to 1,500 singers and musicians as Jurisdictional Minister of Music for the First Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction of Illinois. In 1992, she was appointed as Vice President of the International Music Department. In 1994, she was appointed to succeed the late Dr. Mattie Moss Clark and served for 6½ years as the President of the International Music Department (under the late Bishop Louis H. Ford and the late Bishop Chandler D. Owens), recognized for bringing administrative finesse, organizational structure and wide participation to the department, and raising the level of music for Convocation worship services.
Professor Iris Stevenson McCullough - 2001 to 2008
- Dr. McCullough was appointed as an International Vice President by the late Presiding Bishop Louis Henry Ford in 1994 and reappointed by the late Presiding Bishop Chandler David Owens. In 2001, the late Presiding Bishop Gilbert Earl Patterson elevated Professor Iris Stevenson-McCollough to the high office of International Music President. During her tenure, Professor Iris employed a global ministry focus and a parade of colorful gospel songs and arrangements full of joviality and infectious rhythms. The Movie Sister Act II is based on Dr. Iris Stevenson McCullough's life.
Dr. Judith McAllister - 2009 to 2021
- Dr. Judith Christie McAllister, often hailed as âThe First Lady of Praise and Worship,â is a distinguished leader in Music Ministry. With a career span of over four decades, this Grammy-nominated Choir Directorâs fingerprints can be found on the hearts and lives of Ministers of Music and Worship Leaders everywhere. Her signature songs, such as âOh Give Thanksâ and âTo Our God,â recorded on her own record label (Judah Music Group), have transcended cultural and racial barriers, enriching worship services worldwide. From 2009 to 2021, McAllister served as the President of the International Music Department (IMD) for the Church of God In Christ, providing oversight, impact, and innovation to the musical constituency of the largest Pentecostal denomination in the world under the administration of Presiding Bishop Emeritus â Bishop Charles E. Blake, Sr.
Dr. Myron Williams - 2021 to Present Day
Williams, long-time Music Director for Juanita Bynum Ministries, is credited with the music and sound fans of Flow Records have grown to love. A renowned worship and praise leader, he found a way to harness the power and intensity of a praise service and capture the feeling on a track. This is why his production and writing skills are utilized by some of gospel musicâs biggest recording artists, including T.D. Jakes, Kim Burrell, Marvin Sapp, DFW Mass Choir, Karen Clark-Sheard, and former Flow Records artist Juanita Bynum, of which he produced 7 chart-topping CDs. In 2021, Presiding Bishop J. Drew Sheard appointed Dr. Myron Williams as President of the International Music Department, a position he still holds today.
- Credit to IMD
- COGIC Whole Truth
- COGIC Souvenir books
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The Detroit News
Sunday, Nov 02, 1986
Interview with the Great Dr. Mattie Moss Clark
Mattie Moss Clark finds her favorite spot on the couch in her northwest Detroit home and relaxes while her daughters buzz around the house preparing for a rehearsal.
She lives here with her oldest daughter, Twinkie, the leader of the Clark Sisters. The phone rings.
âAnswer the phone, somebody,â Mrs. Clark hollers.
âI'm busy now.â No response.
âDid you hear me? Answer that phone.
The ringing stops. At 52, Mrs. Clark still rules her household, her children, and as director of the Music Department of the Church of God in Christ.
She dominates, She controls, ... And, she mothers.
âYou cut yourself shaving,â she says to me. âYou
should put some vinegar on that. It'll dry it right up.â
Itâs this blend of control and concern that perched her squarely on the throne of Detroit Gospel music. She's the only gospel artist in Detroit to have earned three gold records. She's determined to maintain that hold through her Mattie Moss Clark Conservatory of Music on West Seven Mile in Detroit, founded three years ago.
Her daughters, the Clark sisters, train hopefuls for careers in gospel. Several Detroit gospel artists have already emerged from Mrs. Clark's stable:
Douglas Miller, Donald Vails, Esther Smith, Vanessa Bell-Armstrong and Rance Allen.
Mrs. Clark also helped her five daughters - Twinkie, Jacky, Dorinda, Karen, and Denise- to become one of the top gospel groups in the Country. They'll remain that way, she says, "as long as they do what I tell them to do. I tell them, "God has given you his anointing. Don't abuse it."
It's this I-don't-take-no-stuff attitude that's helped Mrs. Clark become successful, as her friends will attest:
"She was one of the first ones to come with the hard-breaking knock-them-dead gospel," said Donald Vails, who moved from Atlanta to Detroit in 1965 to join her Southwest Michigan Community Choir." "People came to Detroit just to sing with Mattie Moss. She gave a lot of folks a chance in their gospel career."
"Mattie has produced a lot of good singers," says Derrick Brinkley." People who could not sing at all come out vocalizing."
"She's done good work," Andrae Crouch says. "She's a disciplinary person as far as choirs are concerned. In her choirs and her rehearsals and things, she's tough."
Mrs. Clark is also tough on her daughters. She believes they should not wear makeup or pants and that they should remain virgins until they're married. And why not? She says, "I grew up that way."
The third oldest among six brothers and a sister, Mrs. Clark was born in Selma, Alabama., where her parents pastored the Church of Prayer Holiness.
"My mother was strict on me." she says, "We couldn't go to the movies or iron or sew on Sunday. No, the only thing we could do was go to church."
Mrs. Clark began playing piano at age 6. She attended Selma University for 2 1/2 years, where she majored in music. She dropped out later and came to Detroit with her sister at age 19. She played piano for small churches around the city. She met her husband, Elbert Clark, and had five daughters and a son, Leo.
Mrs. Clark played at several Church of God in Christ locations before being appointed as state director of the music department for the church group in 1957 and International director 10 years later.
She made her first recording, God, Do Something for Me, in 1957. Afterward, she and James Cleveland signed an 11-year contract with Savoy Records, where she earned three gold records with her She's Michigan State Choir. She left Savoy in 1975. "The Lord spoke to me and told me I would never get anywhere because by being on the same label, they were only interested in pushing James Cleveland," she says.
An anonymous record producer said it was more like Savoy couldn't take her anymore. "She was so demanding, he explains.
Her domineering personality and boastfulness often draw criticism. When her name is mentioned, some gospel artists just shake their heads and say, "She's something else" or, "You know how Mattie is."
Mrs. Clark claims she gave most Detroit gospel groups their start. "She had nothing to do with us responds Carvin Winans of the Winans. "What she talking about now?" asks Fred Hammond, leader of Commissioned.
Mrs. Clark defends against the barbs. "I'm being fought on the stage because I stand for the Bible."
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COGIC History - Year 1936
The Death of COGIC First Lady Lelia Mason
The COGIC National Tabernacle Burning Down
Memphis Commercial Appeal -
Mrs. Mason, Wife of Holiness Bishop, Succumbs To Stroke
Sunday, Nov 29, 1936
Mrs. Lelia Washington Mason's wife of Bishop Charles H. Mason, founder and General Overseer of the Church Of God In Christ, died at her residence, 1121 Mississippi Avenue, Wednesday evening, November 29th,
Death came to this beloved woman just ten days after she had suffered a stroke of paralysis and eight days before the National Convocation opening. After learning of her passing, news of which shocked the entire Holiness Church and citizens of Memphis, many Convocation delegates arrived in Memphis over the weekend to attend funeral services Monday.
At this writing, obsequies were scheduled to be held Monday morning at ten o'clock from the Tabernacle church on South Fifth Street, with Elder Samuel Crouch of Los Angeles, California, officiating the service.
Mrs. Mason remained conscious and recognized members of her household until a few hours before she passed. She prophesied that she'd never live to witness another Holy Convocation.
To make matters worse, shortly after midnight on Tuesday, December 8th, during the 29th Annual Holy Convocation of the Church Of God In Christ (COGIC), a devastating fire destroyed the historic National Tabernacle Building of God located at 958 South Fifth Street in Memphis, Tennessee. For many years, the Tabernacle had served as COGIC's national headquarters, convocation center, and meeting place.
Fire burst forth while legendary gospel singer and traveling evangelist Elder Utah Smith was leading the regularly scheduled midnight meeting.
Smith's well-attended, all-inclusive singing, preaching, and healing services usually lasted until 6:00 a.m. On December 8th, moments after Elder Utah Smith's All-night services began, flames and fumes gushed from the basement in volcanic fashion. They quickly soared up to the ceiling and burned the roof.
Miraculously, most of the 2,000 frightened delegates were able to bravely battle their way out before the blazing building was consumed by the inferno.
However, One Elder in the fire died. His name was Elder Anthony "Inkney" Hicks, a COGIC preacher and widower who lived with his seven Children in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Hicks had apparently fallen asleep during the services. When the fire started, he was trapped inside, and he ultimately died in the flames.
The National Temple was built in 1924. The three-story wooden structure had a spacious balcony and sanctuary, indoor restrooms, a large basement that contained an industrial kitchen, and a huge dining hall. The fire also destroyed a one-story wooden building used to house COGIC's out-of-town convocation delegates at 922 South Fifth Street.
Ultimately, the Memphis Fire Department could not save the flaming building. After the firefighters extinguished the flames, fire chief Irby Klinck issued a statement to the Memphis Press-Scimitar. According to Klinck, the fire had started in the basement, where an industrial stove used to prepare meals had carelessly been ignored.
The racist media at that time blame COGIC members for defiling the house of God by selling junk food and low-priced beauty products rather than worshipping God. They said Old Negro men sold hot peanuts and candy near the door, where a sign said, no smoking this is holy ground.
Then, to make things worse, Elder Frank C.V. Foard, a native of Mississippi, was evangelizing COGIC churches throughout San Antonio, Texas, at the time. While standing in front of the decimated building, Foard expressed his disapproval of COGIC moneymaking activities. His remarks suggested that God's anger had destroyed the Tabernacle. He said I told my friends last night that something was going to happen. There was too much commercial. Everyone was out for making money, instead of saving souls.
This led to the Powerful Bishop E.M. Page to personally deal with Elder Frank C.V. Foard for his comments against the Church.
Despite Elder Foard's comments, the majority of the Saints felt it was Racist Boss Crump and his thugs who burned down the COGIC National Temple.
At the height of Jim Crow, Bishop Mason allowed blacks and whites to sit next to each other in church. In the 1930s, Edward Hull âBossâ Crump told Mason he could not continue to allow blacks and whites to sit together. However, Boss Crump could not stop Bishop Mason from holding integrated meetings in his churches.
Instead, Boss Crump tried to do business with Bishop Mason and sell him insurance to insure the National Temple and other COGIC Buildings Through his company, The Crump Insurance Co.,
However, Bishop Mason declined to do business with him and didn't insure any of his buildings. This angered Boss Crump, and the National Temple was suddenly burned down.
The Saints and Bishop Mason weren't going to lay down to Boss Crump and fall in line like everyone else did in Memphis. Instead, the General Assembly held a meeting where a White COGIC Preacher suggested we move the Holy Convocation to Chicago, Illinois. Where the Saints would be treated much better in Illinois than in the racist South. His suggestion led to a thunderous applause from some of the Saints.
That day, the General Assembly voted to either keep the Convocation in Memphis or move it to Chicago, Illinois. Ultimately, the General Assembly voted for the Holy Convocation to stay in Memphis, Tennessee.
Eventually, this led Bishop Mason to warn Boss Crump that business leaders in Chicago, Cleveland, Kansas City, Los Angeles, and even cities in Canada were all bidding to move COGIC's headquarters and yearly convocations to their cities.
(Basically, telling Trump, if you keep messing with us, we will move our Convocations elsewhere).
Eventually, this led Boss Crump to give $10,000 of his own money to help build a bigger building to house the Saints.
In 1940, COGIC started construction on a bigger building that would later be known today as Mason Temple.
CREDIT TO - AN UNSEEN LIGHT: BLACK STRUGGLES FOR FREEDOM IN MEMPHIS, (TENNESSEE EDITED BY ARAM GOUDSOUZIAN, CHARLES W. MCKINNEY JR.)
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COGIC History Year 1955
**A Healing Testimony **
Sister Versie Lee Garrett
I thank the Lord for sanctifying and baptizing me with the Precious Holy Ghost, with fire and a mind to walk upright before my unseen God. I know the Lord to be a healer. In the year 1945, I had Tuberculosis, and through the teachings of Sister Florence Rosbon, the Lord saved me I had an operation.
The doctor removed seven ribs from my right side. After my operation, the doctor told me, you can go home, but don't do any work. I had an X-RAY made every six weeks. I weighed one hundred six (106) pounds, so I went to work, and in two months, I broke down and returned to the Tuberculosis Hospital for the second time, just as the doctor said.
The doctor said they had to go back to that side again after the left side healed up. I told the Lord I didn't want the doctor to operate on me again, and I wanted Him to "heal" my body.
I wanted the Lord to heal me, and I asked Him to. I told the Lord, Lord, I have heard about you being a healer and have seen some people healed, but you had never done that work for me.
In 1949, when the National Holy Convocation was in session here in Memphis, Tennessee, at Mason Temple, I was lying in bed with my radio on, listening to the broadcast and Bishop J. O. Patterson Sr. narrating.
He told the people in radio land if you are near your radio, just lay your hands on the radio. Bishop Mason is here to offer prayer for the sick. I laid my left hand on the radio and my right hand on my left side, which had been hurting me for three months.
When Bishop Mason began to pray, he said, "WOMAN. THE LORD. HEAL YOU' THE POWER OF GOD CAME INTO MY RIGHT HAND, AND I COULDN'T CONTROL IT. PRAISE the LORD!
I knew it was the Lord working with me, but THE DEVIL tried to keep me from claiming my healing. Just about that time, Bishop Mason said, "SATAN, THE LORD, REBUKE YOU, COME OUT OF THE MIND, YOU TORMENTOR. WOMAN! GET UP OUT OF THAT BED." THE LORD QUICKENED ME OUT OF BED AND HEALED MY BODY INSTANTLY THAT NIGHT. HALLELUJAH. THANK YOU, JESUS!
I was discharged by the doctor and nurse that next morning without an X-RAY. I was at home three months before the doctor said for me to have a check-up. So, as the Scripture has said, "obey them that have ruler over you, according to the flesh."
I went and had an X-RAY made. It came right back and said, your chest X-RAY shows to be satisfactory. GLORY! THANK GOD! The doctor only exempts Tuberculosis Patients for three years.
Since then, I have been working nine and ten hours daily on a public job for over a year, lifting IRON like a man. It has been six years since the Lord healed me. Since that time, the Lord has healed me of cancer, healed my eyes so that I don't have to wear eyeglasses and many other afflictions.
THANK GOD! He has doubled my time according to the prediction of the doctors. SAINTS AND FRIENDS: LOOK TO THE LORD FOR YOUR HELP AND STRENGTH. I know Him to be all of this to me.
SAINTS: "LET US EARNESTLY CONTEND FOR THE FAITH WHICH WAS ONCE DELIVERED UNTO US! Bishop Mason is my pastor; Mother Martha Stinson is my Church Mother. FOR ME, I WILL FOREVER STAY IN THE WILL OF THE LORD! Yours in Christ,
Sister Versie Lee Garrett
CREDIT THE CENTER FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN CHURCH HISTORY
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COGIC History -
COGIC Mother Katherine Taylor testified how her mother, Elouise Jordan, was raised from the dead, a miracle that she personally witnessed.
Mother Jordan went to church in Memphis, Tennessee, and was a faithful member of her church. However, in 1940, at the age of 33 years old,d the doctors diagnosed her with cancer in her throat.
Although she was hospitalized at John Gaston Hospital, they sent her home because there was nothing that they could do for her. She suffered from cancer for nine years, and it ate through her throat so bad that mucus was coming from her neck.
In 1949, Mother Jordan's daughter Katherine had gone to work when "her supervisor received a call... for her to come home because her mother had died." The entire neighborhood had known of Mother Jordan's illness, so many people were standing outside, and a hearse arrived from the J.O. Patterson mortuary.
Hearing of Mother Jordan's passing, Bishop Mason arrived before the mortuary could take the body. He "prayed and rebuked death, and life came back into Mother Jordan's body. "When Katherine Taylor reached the house, "Mother Jordan was on the porch in a pink nightgown dancing and praising God."
The doctors had indicated that cancer had destroyed her ability to speak, but when Bishop C.H. Mason prayed for her, the Lord restored her voice, and she was able to speak and praise God until she died in 1982.
She lived from 1907 to 1982.
Credit to Craig S. Keener
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Black History Month
COGIC History
Democrat William L. Dawson, U.S. Congressman of Chicago, Illinois was called by Bishop Mason from time to time to be a main speaker during the Holy Convocation.
I am unsure if Congressman William L. Dawson was a Church Of God In Christ member. But when the church was celebrating Bishop C.H. Mason's 54 years of preaching, he made sure Democratic Congressman William L. Dawson was one of the main speakers.
The COGIC always played a big role when it came to politics. Bishop C.H. Mason every year made sure to invite politicians to come to speak at the Holy Convocation.
Congressman William L. Dawson was the third African American elected to Congress in the 20th century and the first black Member to chair a standing committee. William L. Dawson served in the House of Representatives for nearly three decades. A product of the influential Chicago Democratic machine, Dawson remained loyal to the organization and the political party that propelled his long congressional career.
Dawson played a key role in Richard J. Daley's election as mayor of the Windy City in 1955.
In 1960, John F. Kennedy's narrow victory in the key state of Illinois largely depended on the voters in Dawson's wards, leading to widespread speculation among the press that the President-elect would express his gratitude by inviting Dawson to become Postmaster General.
When the offer came, the 74âyearâold Dawson declined, saying he would be more useful to the new administration as a senior Representative in the House.
He died of pneumonia in 1970 at the age of 84 years old
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Black History Month
COGIC - 1948
Actor and singer Paul Robeson was the first secular artist to have a concert at Mason Temple in 1948.
Bishop Mason opens his doors to Paul Robeson to do a concert at Mason Temple in his fight against Jim Crow and help the Presidential campaign of Vice President Henry A. Wallace.
It was a risky decision based on the fact that the white southerners wanted Paul Robeson dead and that Mason Temple, the most prominent black Church in the USA at the time, could be burned down by the Klan or by a racist white mob if the most powerful man in Memphis (Racist Boss Crump) gave the order. Boss Crump did all he could to stop the concert from happening in his city, but Bishop Mason did what he wanted to do. Bishop Mason was too powerful, and the COGIC generated millions in yearly revenue in Memphis.
After the COGIC National Temple burned down in 1936, Bishop Mason wrote Boss Crump a letter threatening him that if he kept messing with the COGIC, he would take the Holy Convocation to another State. The city of Memphis would lose millions of dollars.
Racist Boss Crump responded by giving $10,000 of his own money to help build Mason Temple, keeping COGIC in Memphis, Tennessee, and making sure that no one messed with Bishop C.H. Mason or Mason Temple.
So, how did Paul Robeson end up doing a political concert at Mason Temple?
After the mass lynching of four African Americans on July 25, 1946, Robeson met with President Truman and admonished Truman by stating that if he did not enact legislation to end lynching, the Negroes would defend themselves". Truman immediately ended the meeting and declared that the time was not right to propose anti-lynching legislation.
In 1948, Paul supported former Vice President Henry A. Wallace, who was running against President Truman. VP Wallace was against Jim Crow and segregation in public schools. As you can imagine, White southerners and Northern Conservatives hated both men. Wallace often got Tomatoes and Eggs thrown at him for preaching against racism. The racist South wanted both men executed.
Bishop Mason was an early, quiet civil rights leader who wasn't scared of any man and didn't mind opening the doors of Mason Temple to Paul Robeson.
Robeson was introduced by Reverend Kyle at Mason Temple to an interracial audience of some two thousand people,
Robeson gave a full concert of African American spirituals and freedom songs.
The concert fundraiser was a success. However, afterward, Paul Robeson was Banned from performing concerts anywhere in the USA and later moved to Russia.
In 1948, VP Wallace lost to President Truman in a landslide. However, he remained in politics until he died in 1965.
(After the concert, Bishop Mason's Son-In-Law and Future COGIC Presiding Bishop J.O. Patterson Sr. came out against the concert, telling the media that no Political event would ever happen again at Mason Temple. However, In 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave two speeches at Mason Temple in Memphis, Tennessee, supporting the Memphis sanitation workers' strike. The speeches were given on March 18 and April 3, 1968. The April 3 speech became known as "I've Been to the Mountaintop" and was King's last speech).
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Church Of God In Christ Presiding Bishop J. Drew Sheard
Announces New Leadership Appointments (2024)
Chief Operations Officer
Bishop Keith Kershaw
General Counsel
Attorney Jonathan Saffold
Bishop Uleses Henderson (Special Counsel to the Presiding Bishop)
Senior Executive Assistants
Bishop Clarence Sellers
Bishop John Mark Johnson
Special Assistant to the Presiding Bishop
Bishop Ethan Sheard
Director, Office of Conference, Events & Travel
Deacon Christopher Payton
General Board Clerk
Bishop Talbert W. Swan II
Senior Executive Administrative Assistants
Sister Bernita Sheard
Sister Sharon D. Jackson
National Adjutancy
Adjutant General, Bishop Dickerson Wells
Deputy Adjutant General, Herman Platt
Deputy Adjutant General, John Smith
Deputy Adjutant General, Glen McKinney
Scribe, Elder Nic South
Adjutant Apostolic, Supt. Waddee Thoroughgood
Adjutant Mother, Doretha Fields
Deputy Assistant Adjutant Mother, Linda Ratcliff
Deputy Assistant Adjutant Mother, Mary Bell
Deputy Assistant Adjutant Mother, Felicia Brokaw
Senior Advisory Board to the Presiding Bishop
Bishop Alphonso Denson, Sr., Co-Chair
Bishop Benjamin Collins, Co-Chair
Bishop Roger Jones
Bishop Felton Smith
Bishop Mark Walden
Bishop Juan Lawson
Bishop James Jordan
Bishop John Richardson
Bishop Dwight Green
Mother Sylvia Law
Mother Mildred Linzy
Mother Mary Tucker
Sister Sharon Bordeaux
Bishop Oscar Meadows
Bishop Christopher Milton
Bishop Adrian Williams
Bishop Frank Anderson
Mother Mary Walton
Global Public Relations and Communication Director
Brother Robert Coleman, Jr.
Marketing Director
Dr. Holly Carter
Web Master & Graphics
Pastor Charles Henderson
Social Media Manager
Sister Angela Joseph
COGIC APP
Elder David Perry
Leadership Conference
Chairman, Bishop Charles McClelland
Vice-Chairman, Bishop Carl Pierce
Vice-Chairman, Bishop Micaiah Young
Vice-Chairman, Bishop Herbert Davis
Vice-Chairperson, Sister Myra Banks
Vice-Chairman, Pastor Jeffery Lewis
Finance, Bishop Guy Glimp
Menâs Ministry
Co-Chair, Bishop Patrick Wooden
Co-Chair, Bishop Roderick Hennings
Vice President, Elder Ernest Sweat
Vice President, Pastor Kyle Mann
Vice-President, Bishop Charles Brewer
International Womenâs Department
General Supervisor, Mother Barbara McCoo-Lewis
1st Assistant Supervisor, Mother Wilma Hughey
2nd Assistant Supervisor, Mother Vanessa Gatlin
3rd Assistant Supervisor, Mother Mary Jane Walton
Chair of Administrative Facilitators, Mother Barbara Bryant
International AIM Convention
Chairman, Supt. Nathaniel Green
Vice Chairman, Elder Ryan Allen
Vice Chairman, Evang. Althea Sims
Vice Chairman, Deacon Christopher Payton
Vice Chairman, Pastor Billy Evans
Executive Secretary, Pastor Steven Tipton
Assistant Executive Secretary, Evang. Tahaiti Tinsley
International Youth Department
President, Pastor Kale Mann
Vice President, Pastor Gary Lee
Vice President, Elder Andrew Jackson
Vice President, Joe Thompson
Vice President, Elder Ronelle Jones
Vice President, Marcus Golden
Chairlady, Evang. Vandalyn Kennedy
Assistant Chairlady, Evang. Takeitha Peterson Carter
Assistant Chairlady, Evang. Rhonda Rippy
Assistant Chairlady, Evang. Tiffany Glover
Assistant Chairlady, Evang. Bridgette Wright
Youth Church
Director, Elder Tirrell McCoy
Assistant Director, Elder Jovan Custis
International Music Department
President, Dr. Myron Williams
Vice President, Evang. Kierra Sheard Kelly
Vice President, Elder C. Ivan Johnson
Vice President, Elder Derrick Starks
Vice President, Evang. Rosalind Jones
Vice President, Evang. Crystal Rucker
International Music Department Advisory Board
Co-Chair, Mance L. Aytchan
Co-Chair, Elder Zacchaeus Hayslett
Elder Kevin Beamon
Cynthia Bennings
M. Jason Wright
Sidney Oliver
International Sunday School Department
President, Superintendent Mark Ellis
Vice President, Elder Michael Payton
Vice President, Superintendent Rodney Atkins
Vice President, Elder Carl Davis
Field Representative, Lady Bonita Shelby
Assistant Field Representative, Waynell Henson
Assistant Field Representative, Charlotte Johnson
International Department of Evangelism
President, Pastor Gary Sprewell
Vice President, Andrew Singleton
Vice President, Superintendent Waverly Bumbrey, Sr.
Vice President, Elder John Delly
Elect-Lady, Evang. Dorinda Clark-Cole
Assistant Elect-Lady, Diane North
Assistant Elect-Lady, Latara Tillman
Assistant Elect-Lady, Lashaun Dillard Berry
Substance Abuse Recovery Ministry
Co-Director of Substance Abuse Recovery Ministry, Dr. Lawrence C. Boles II
Co-Director of Substance Abuse Recovery Ministry, Evang. Vivian Renita Porter
International Department of Missions
President, Bishop Terrance Rhone
Elect Lady, Mother Lee Van Zandt
Scholastic Motivations Ministry
President, Elder Jessie Williams
Education Commission
Commissioner, Bishop Chad Carlton
Deputy Commission, Dr. Monica Clayton
All Saints Bible College
President, Dr. Joseph Fisher
All Saints Board
Dr. Valda Slack
Dr. Cynthia Buckley
Additional Names To Be Determined
C.H. Mason Theological Seminary
Dean, Dr. Harold V. Bennett
OT Jones Institute
President, Bishop Charles Brown
Vice President, Avery Brown
Church Growth Ministry
President, Pastor Terry Ellison
Vice President, Pastor Otis Lockett, Jr.
Executive Team Member, Pastor Wil Nichols
Executive Team Member, Superintendent Samuel Moore
Hispanic Initiative
Director, John Perez
Security Department â Commissioner
Bishop William McMillan
Deputy Commissioner, Bishop Rothel Highsmith
Deputy Commissioner, LaVell Whitaker
Ushers Department
President - Connie Sawyer
Vice-President - Larry Garner
Vice-President - Catherine Webb
Vice-President - Lisa Lewis-Moss
Institutional and Military Chaplaincy
Commissioner of Chaplains - Carlos Bell
Assistant Commissioner of Chaplains - Bishop Herman Hicks
COGIC Urban Initiatives (C.E. Blake Ministries)
President, Pastor Anthony Coleman
Vice President, J. Robert Harrison
Supervisor Lolita Fluker
Bishop J. Louis Felton
Evang. Elizabeth Wilson
Pastor Lloyd Allen
Administrative Staff Development
Director, Ursula Higginbotham
Office of Governmental Affairs
Director, Bro. Art Blackwell
Assistant Director, Dr. Stephen Lackey
Dorothy Brown
Attorney Ruth Barrett
John Christian
Virgie Rollins
Pastor Elliot Powell, Esq.
Prayer Ministry
Co-President, Bishop Larry Perkins
Co-President Mother Frances Kelley
Executive Team, Mother Martina Martin
Executive Team, Mother Carol Pryor
Bishop Alphonso Denson
Bishop J. Rashad Jones
Bishop Nate Jefferson
Mother Lena McClain
Benita Austin
Mother Kathy Glover
Evang. Connie Russell
Missionary Van Hill
Soul Winning Ministry
President, Bishop Bob Jackson
Bishop Ron Hill
Resolution Advisory Committee
Bishop David Hall
Bishop E. Charles Connor
Judge E. Lynese Bryant
Publishing House Board
Chairman, Bishop Uleses Henderson
Vice Chairman, Bishop Alton Gatlin
Secretary, Bishop Reggie Witherspoon
Board Member, Bishop Christopher Martin
Board Member, Deacon Stephen Savage
Board Member, Supervisor Gracie Davis Harris
Board Member, Bishop Phillip Jackson
Board Member, Pastor Eric Slack
Board Member, Cathy Oliver
Board Member, Dr. Dwight Radcliff
Board Member, Naâkhia Washington
Board Member, Elder Aaron Macklin
COGIC Charities Board
Chair, Presiding Bishop J. Drew Sheard
Board Member, Bishop Jerry W. Macklin (General Board Representative)
Board Member, Bishop Michael Hill (General Board Representative)
Board Member, Dr. Jerry Maynard, II
Board Member, Supervisor Barbara McCoo-Lewis
Board Member, Dr. Sylvia Law
Board Member, Dr. J.O. Patterson, III
Board Member, Mr. Robert Coleman
Board Member, Elder John Penton
Board Member, Bishop Mark Gilkey
Board Member, Bishop Carl D. Hodges
Board Member, Attorney Pat Ways
Board Member, Dr. Timothy Fair
Board Member, Dr. Terrance Merritt
Board Member, Dr. Kendra Brown
Board Member, Dr. Larry Meeks
Jubilee Broadcasting Board
Co-Chairman, Jeffery Melvin
Co-Chairman, Glen Plummer
Bishop Nathiel Wells
Bishop J. Louis Felton
Bishop Lonnie Lynch
Bishop Sheldon Rhodes
Doreen Graves
Glenda Curry
Pontotoc Board
Chairman, Bishop Darin Burns
Co-Chairman, Board Member, Bishop Dwight Walls
Board Member, Superintendent Melton Timmons
Board Member, Missionary Cari Barnes
Advisor to the Board, Bishop Brandon B. Porter
Advisor to the Board, Bishop Charles McClelland
COGIC Health Ministry
Secretary General of Health, Elder Readus Smith
Commissioner, Bishop Elton Amos, MD
Board Member, Supervisor Dr. Gloria Johnson Rodgers
Board Member, Dr. Alice Smith
Board Member, Dr. Sharon Westbrook
Social Justice Ministry
Director, Bishop Talbert Swan
Assistant Director, Pastor Ladarius Beal
Elder Jamar Boyd
Bishop Ron Griffin
Attorney Sheila Stuart
Prison Ministries
Assistant Director, Pastor Sean Calhoun
Marriage & Family Ministries
Dr. Rozario Slack
Dr. Angela Slack
National Economic Development
Chair, Elder Derric Scott
Advisor, Bishop Darin Burns
Pastor Kevin Ford
Dr. Shaâron Westbrook
Elder Gerald Simpkins
Corporate Sponsorship
Dr. Stephen Lackey
Grant Writing Team
Tracey Knox
PK Connection
Bishop Curtis Sexton
Pastor Joel Pullen
Evang. Tekeitha Peterson Carter
Elder Thomas Rodgers
Insurance Committee & Retirement
Chair, Bishop Guy Glimp
Bishop Lonnie Lynch
Bishop Christopher Milton
Byron Strong
Bishop Roland Sanders
Mother Georgia Macklin Lowe
Bishop Adrian Williams
Dr. Lisa Hill
Dr. J. Alexandria
Dr. David Sanders
Dr. Nathaniel Hall
Bishop E. Charles Connor
Supt. Jonathan Davenport
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UPDATED TIME: In honor of his profound impact as a Pastor and Servant of God, we anticipate the service may run longer than expected. To accommodate this, the Celebration of Life will now begin at **10:15 AM** instead of 10:30 AM.
Thank you for your understanding as we celebrate his remarkable life and legacy.
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