COGIC LEADERS UNVEIL UNPRECEDENTED GLOBAL STRATEGY
Member Support Needed to Make Plan a Success
The Presiding Bishop Charles E. Blake, Sr. and the distinguished members of the General Board ensure the preservation of a sacred Church Of God In Christ (COGIC) landmark and enhance its usefulness through an impressive global administrative, informational, and operational center.
The administration center, located on the campus of the international headquarters of the Church Of God In Christ, will afford denominational departments and ministries the ability to empower congregational initiatives, strengthen Jurisdictional programs, and advance international COGIC ministries. This cultural gem, a religious antiquity, symbolizes our rich COGIC heritage and will accommodate progressive COGIC initiatives.
Presiding Bishop Blake and the presidium has commissioned a national team of planners, capital development professionals, and church leaders to implement the timely completion of this project. Bishop Sedgwick Daniels has been selected to chair this committee and orchestrate deliverables in concert with the administrative team at headquarters.
Mason Temple COGIC has served as a focus point in the history of this country. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his final speech there the night before his assassination, and world leaders have sought out the location for significant outreach to the African American population. The campus is a federally-designated national landmark and for the first time in more than 40 years, the ministries of the church will operate from a central location in Memphis on the Campus of Mason Temple.
Renovating an additional 20,000 square feet on the grounds of the Mason Temple campus sets forth a financial challenge to the members, friends, and stakeholders across the nation and the world to raise more than $2 million through 2009 to be ready to move in by the summer 2010. You will hear more about the capital campaign in upcoming months. I hope that you can find it in your heart to help support this major initiative on behalf of the Church of God in Christ.
Your Servant in Christ!
Presiding Bishop Charles E. Blake, Sr.
The Seventh in Succesion
CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST, INC.
2008 COGIC Charities Scholarship Banquet
The Annual COGIC Charities Banquet will be held on Saturday, November 8, 2008 at 3:00 PM in the Grand Ballroom of the Memphis Cook Convention Center. Our speaker for the evening will be Rev. Eugene Rivers, co-director of the National Ten Point Leadership Foundation, which is working to build new grassroots leadership in some of America's worst inner-city neighborhoods. He also General Secretary of the Pan African Charismatic Evangelical Congress that organizes U.S. churches to assist in Africa in dealing with AIDS.
Download COGIC Heritage Sunday Resource Kit:
Beacon Light Newsletter | COGIC Heroes | Heritage Celebration Ideas | Letter for COGIC Pastors
General Board Member, Bishop George Dallas McKinney and Judiciary Member, Barbara (BJ) Warren Weds
Bishop George Dallas McKinney was married to Attorney Barbara (BJ) Warren on August 9, 2008 in San Diego, California, with Presiding Bishop Charles E. Blake, Officiating . Over 1,000 people attended the wedding, many Bishops and National Leaders were present. More than 700 people joined the Bishop and his new wife at the reception on the yacht Inspiration Hornblower as they sailed around the San Diego Bay. The invitees enjoyed great food and music. They also toasted and celebrated the birthday of Bishop McKinney with fireworks, on the top deck of the yacht.
Their honeymoon was spent in Cancun Mexico.
Bishop George Dallas McKinney is a General Board Member of the Church of God In Christ and Barbara McKinney is a member of the Judiciary Board of the Church of God In Christ.
Sister Barbara McKinney has been warmly received by the congregation at St. Stephens and is now actively involved in the life of the local Church and the Jurisdiction.
2008 Convention Registration Information
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Tuesday, November 6, 2007
(COGIC Centennial Convocation Opening Ceremonies)
Tuesday, November 6, 2007 - Noon & Evening Services
Thursday, November 8, 2007 - Missions Night/Parade of Nations
Printable Versions of Archived Apostolic Missives in PDF
Missive: V | IV | III | II | I
Note: Adobe Acrobat Reader is needed to read these files. 
Centennial Products
Including Bibles, CD's, DVD's,
Shirts, Hats, etc. are still available for purchase
COGIC Discipleship Bible: Centennial Edition
Addiotional Featured Items
To order DVD's of the Church of God in Christ Pre-Centennial Celebration, which includes the COGIC Reunion and Founder's Day Services held in Detroit, Michigan September 3-4, 2007, call: (877) YES-Lord.
