As I travel about the country and conduct meetings in the various churches, including the CoG, I find that many ministers in the Pentecostal churches miss so much of our total reliance upon the Holy Ghost. All the Church Growth programs, the “How To’s”, and “What’s Wrong With Our Churches” seminars fail to understand the […]

Gatlinburg, TN–A fast-moving wildfire in the area of Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge in the Great Smoky Mountains grew rapidly last night as winds whipped a somewhat manageable set of brush fires into raging forest fires.

Dos. Anyone. Hav. A. Good. Used. 35-40. ‘. Motorhome. To. Sell. ? So. That. I. Can. Buy. It. And Safely. Take. An. Autistic. Child. To TCOG. Camps. And. Retreats. Around. The. Country

The top ten Sunday Schools in the COG in 1954: Tremont Ave, Greenville S.C. 835; North Cleveland, Tenn 613; Anderson S. C. 470; North Chattanooga 448; Alabama city, Ala 420; Tabernacle Detroit, Mich 396; Clayton Street Middletown, Oh 376; Whitwell, Tn 364; Dillon 353 source- Lighted Pathway Dec 1954 How has this changed in the […]

On November 26, 1936, Herman and Lydia Lauster, with their children Walter and Mary, sailed from New York harbor for Cuxhaven (Hamburg), Germany, to establish the Church of God in that country. Seen here with their family about 1954, Herman and Lydia had emigrated from Germany to the United States in 1926. Coming in contact […]

Have you ever been in a good old fashioned COG service and the service was so good you sang: “I crossed over Jordan’s fair land and this is like heaven to me, oh this is like heaven to me, this is like heaven to me!”

In his sermon entitled, Physical Demonstrations, CoG minister, Rev. R. J. Varnell gives two main reasons for his sermon in his Introduction. “INTRODUCTION: SOME REASONS FOR THIS MESSAGE. a) Because of a strong trend in Pentecostal church today to tone down the emotional and conform to the pattern of others. b) There is a fear […]