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Pastor A.J. Tomlinson arrived in the town of Cleveland, TN, on December 8, 1904, to occupy his newly purchased home at 2525 Gaut Street. At the time, he was serving as pastor of congregations at Drygo and Union Grove, Tennessee, as well as Camp Creek, North Carolina. His home became the first headquarters for the […]

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In the fifties T. L. Lowery believed that America’s No. 1 problem was segregation. This was a predominant belief among the Church of God. The denomination was still a southern Appalachian church. I recall a sermon in my home church strongly advocating the belief that blacks were descendants of apes and were not of the […]

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