Happy Birthday Church of God!
August 19 is the birthday of the Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee). On this day in 1886, a small group gathered at a gristmill along Barney Creek in Monroe County, Tennessee—not far from the Coker Creek stop on the well-traveled Unicoi Turnpike. On that summer Thursday, Richard Green Spurling preached a sermon on God’s church and invited his hearers to set aside man-made creeds and traditions, ... »
