Foremost Writer, Thinker, Author and Historian
Our Bishop have written many books and papers on the church and its’ foundations in kingdom principles. Bishop Payne is a man of deep devotion to God and Mankind and to which his family also share in his convictions to serve God and His Kingdom. Bishop Payne has proven these words from Jesus to be true : Matthew 6 :33 " Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His Righteousness and all these things will be added unto you. "
Our History
COGIC, USA-INTERNATIONAL Jackson, Mississippi
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COGIC, USA - INTERNATIONAL Church
The COGIC, USA - INTERNATIONAL Church is a worldwide Pentecostal Church with headquarters in Jackson, Mississippi. The COGICUSA has about 40 TO 50 local churches in the USA, 2 in Canada, SEVERAL IN (Axx 25) in Nations of Africa, 2 throughout the nation of Pakistan, several in nation of India and the West Indies. These Churches and their affiliated groups meets regularly as they assemble in other parts of the world, and in some locations, member churches carry instead the name "Christ International Churches," in order to differentiate themselves as the body of Churches with roots to the COGIC, USA-INT'L in America.
History
The COGIC, USA - INTERNATIONAL Church officially traces its roots to the 1906 Pentecostal movement that culminated at Azusa Street in Los Angeles and the Bishop Charles Harrison Mason. Bishop J. L. Payne, a convert of Bishop Charles Harrison Mason and also son in Ministry of Bishop A. B. McEwen in the early days of Pentecostal move under the leadership of Bishop Mason and Bishop McEwen; raised up in Memphis, Tennessee found the genuine experience of the baptism of the Holy Spirit, and shortly after the initial COGIC outpouring experience from the Azusa Street (New Testament Church's experience), LATER IN HAWAII, CALIFORNIA, returning to Memphis, Tennessee, Jackson, Mississippi where he continued preaching and publishing materials under the name "The Christ International Churches, Inc...underlining his roots in the organization structure he found in 1986 (The COGIC, USA - INTERNATIONAL Church) was separate from the almost-identical group headed by Bishop Mason which also went by the same name; COGIC, Church. With this differentiation between the two "The COGIC, USA - INTERNATIONAL Church" became official is sometimes disputed, but the The COGIC, USA - INTERNATIONAL Church marks Chief Apostle J. L. Payne participation in the original move of God under Apostle William Seymour's revivals and Bishop Charles Harrison Mason's founding of the COGIC CHURCH as its organizational foundation.
Since the year of 1986 the Presiding Bishop and Chief Apostle of the COGIC, USA - INTERNATIONAL has been Bishop J. L. Payne in the Jackson, Mississippi Headquarters. Today the ministry has resulted in a worldwide organization spanning many cultures and nations of the earth.
News and Events
2009 - International Leadership Conference, April, 2009 Ramada Inn, Embassy I & II Conference Room;· Location, Hwy 80 and Ellis Street, Jackson, MS (off Interstate 20) near 220 W. loop, April 17, 18, 2009 Please confirm coming as soon as possible! (601) 969-1461
