Know the Seals of your Church
OUR AIM : To Know Christ and to make Him known !
Christ International Churches primary call and commission is to glorify Jesus Christ, our
Savior, who alone gave His life upon the cross to redeem us from all sin and iniquity, and
sent us forth with the "Word of Life " into all the world.
Pentecostal history reveals the outpouring of the Holy Spirit beginning in the early part
of 1901 in Topeka, Kansas, then on to Houston, Texas ; there from Azusa Street Mission, to
Memphis< Tennessee and Jackson, Mississippi; a movement that originally was called the
Apostolic Faith Movement, now later called the Pentecostal Movement.
The great impetus of this movement touched the life of
Bishop J. L. Payne under the ministry of the late Bishop A. B. McEwen. Bishop Payne
received the baptism of the Holy Ghost as spoken of in the book of Acts and began
spreading the Gospel across the Nation and the World.
After establishing seven churches, beginning from the islands of Hawaii to Memphis,
Tennessee; In 1984, he and several ministers formed and organized the Community
Pentecostal Churches International in Jackson, Mississippi to serve the several churches
established in Mississippi. After a few years it became an increasing demand to meet the
needs of local churches and ministers worldwide- Thus the Christ Churches of God in
Christ, USA was born.
OUR CREED : the Bible and the Bible only !
Bishop J. L. Payne, Presiding Bishop and Chief Apostle in a special meeting in 1998 at its
Annual Laborers' Meeting, an International Board of Bishops were organized to began to
meet the call and need of the Christ Churches of God in Christ, USA - International.
An Executive Board and General Board of Bishop has been called into existence accordingly
to the Twelve Apostles.