Facing crowded pews and heavy hearts, Dallas clergy took to the pulpits on Nov. 24, 1963, to try to make sense of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy just two days before. “The ministers saw the assassination as an unwelcome opportunity for some serious,...
“I send twenty-five cents for The Way,” Agnes Floyd of Michigan wrote to editors A.J. Tomlinson and M.S. Lemons in September 1905. Her letter continued, “It is a very good paper. I like to read such papers and then give them to others, praying that they may be led...
Not until near the end of the fourth General Assembly, on Saturday, January 9, 1909, did the Church of God create the office of general overseer. With our congregational polity and the small number of churches there had been no general office up to that time. Rather,...
“Georgia has a great treat coming!” proclaimed the Georgia Reporter in 1947. By that summer camp meeting was already an established tradition in the Church of God–so much so that the churches in Georgia had just purchased property to build a camp ground near...
When the sixth General Assembly met in Cleveland, Tennessee, January 3-8, 1911, the Church of God had grown to fifty-eight churches, 107 ministers, and 1,855 members. Despite this growth, General Overseer A.J. Tomlinson expressed disappointment. Tomlinson lamented to...
