Memphis Mayor Paul Young announces that the Church of God in Christ (COGIC) will hold its annual Holy Convocation in St. Louis from 2026 to 2028, following a return to Memphis in 2025.
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Memphis Mayor Paul Young announced that a well-known event is making its way back to St. Louis. In an interview with Memphis’ Fox 13, he shared the news just moments before it was broadcast in St. Louis. The Church of God in Christ (COGIC) will be relocating its annual Holy Convocation, with the event set to take place in Memphis in 2025 and then moving to St. Louis from 2026 to 2028.
Fox 13: In April 2024, COGIC voted to stay in Memphis for their 2025 conference, but frustrations between the Saints and Memphis were already brewing.
Even then, COGIC leaders and Mayor Young were having conversations regarding hotel concerns. Bishop Brandon Porter, a member of COGIC’s General Board, told FOX13 on Monday that the city needs to make better accommodations for guests, offer better-adjusted hotel rates, and needs to be “more conference friendly.”
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The Church of God in Christ (COGIC) is an organization I have thoroughly enjoyed following and covering over the years. Since 2018, St. Louis has served as its temporary home, attracting thousands of members to the city.
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The Church of God in Christ, Inc. (COGIC) is a Christian organization in the Holiness-Pentecostal tradition. It is the largest Pentecostal denomination in the United States.
The membership is predominantly African-American with millions of adherents. The Church has congregations in 112 countries around the world.
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To seek and save that which is lost.
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The Church of God in Christ, Inc. (COGIC) is a denomination rich in history and passionate in our beliefs. Please click the images below to learn more about how the Church of God in Christ, Inc. was founded and how we continually seek to fulfill God’s purpose on this earth.
THE CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST is a Church of the Lord Jesus Christ in which the word of God is preached, ordinances are administered and the doctrine of sanctification or holiness is emphasized, as being essential to the salvation of mankind.
Our Church is commonly known as being Holiness or Pentecostal in nature because of the importance ascribed to the events which occurred on the Day of Pentecost, the 50th day after the Passover, or Easter as being necessary for all believers in Christ Jesus to experience.
Our Church is also considered to be a member of the great Protestant body though it did not directly evolve from the European or English Reformation but had its origin within the General Association to the Baptist Church.
Elder Charles Harrison Mason, who later became the founder and organizer of the Church of God in Christ, was born September 8,1864, on the Prior Farm near Memphis, Tennessee. His father and mother, Jerry and Eliza Mason, were members of a Missionary Baptist Church, having been converted during the dark crises of American Slavery.
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