She incorporated a syncopated, ragtime style in her gospel accompaniment and soon established the songs " I Shall Wear A Crown ," " My Soul's a Witness for the Lord ," and " Lamb's Blood Has Washed Me Clean " as COGIC standards .< REF NAME =" COGICPatheos "> COGIC Women in Gospel Music on Patheos

Mother Coffey was also most influential in organizing many of the auxiliaries, bands, and units that exist within the COGIC Women's Department today.

She also established the Mattie McGlothen Library and Museum in Richmond, CA as a resource for COGIC historical facts and memorabilia.

Military Chaplains have also been very instrumental in spreading COGIC through military installations as well.

COGIC continues to influence gospel music with a whole new generation of artists with COGIC roots that include: Kim Burell, Kierra Sheard, J. Moss, Micah Stampley, Kurt Carr, Ricky Dillard, Kelly Price, Mary Mary, Tamela Mann, Earnest Pugh, DuShawn Washington and Michelle Williams, The current leader of the International Music Department in Dr. Judith Cristie McAlister of Nashville, TN, who is also a major praise and worship national recording artist.

Bishop Owens had outlined a progressive plan to positon COGIC for ministry in the 21st Century known as " Vision 2000 and Beyond.

Historically, women in ministry in COGIC are known as missionaries and are designated in two categories — Deaconess Missionary and Evangelist Missionary.

Patterson Sr., the five major departments of COGIC were united under an umbrella convention known as UNAC-5 ( United National Auxiliary Conference ).

The church believes that there are three works of grace ( salvation, sanctification, spirit baptism ) that God bestows on believers often testified by many COGIC saints in this affirmation, " I am saved, sanctified, baptized and filled with the Holy Ghost.

Since its creation, the PCCNA has had a co-chair leadership, one of which has always been a COGIC bishop, usually a member of the General Board, and the other from one of the member organizations of the now defunct PFNA.

and Alpha Stewart held the family together under the doctrines of the Church of God in Christ ( COGIC ) and encouraged musical expression in the household.

As part of the doctrines of the Church of God in Christ ( COGIC ), they encouraged musical expression in the household.

The Church of God in Christ ( COGIC ) is a Pentecostal Holiness Christian denomination with a predominantly African-American membership.

With nearly five million members in the United States and 12, 000 congregations, it is the largest Pentecostal church and the fifth largest Christian church in the U. S. Internationally, COGIC can be found in more than 60 nations.

There are more than 15, 000 COGIC congregations found throughout the world.

" This term " saint " is still used by COGIC faithful when addressing themselves.

Mason established the St. Paul Church in Lexington, MS which became the first and oldest COGIC congregation in the world.

" The group adopted the name and COGIC began to grow throughout the south.

Upon his return to Tennessee from the Azusa Street Revival, Mason began preaching and teaching the Pentecostal message in COGIC congregations.

Later that same year, Mason called a meeting in Memphis, Tennessee, and reorganized the Church of God in Christ ( COGIC ) as a Pentecostal-Holiness body.

Thus COGIC became the first legally chartered Pentecostal body incorporated in the United States.

After moving to Memphis and establishing it as the headquarters of COGIC, Bishop Mason founded and pastored the Temple COGIC.

In fact, COGIC prides itself as a church built on prayer and fasting.

Bishop Mason traveled the length and breadth of the country preaching and establishing COGIC churches.

Because COGIC was a legally incorporated religious organization, this gave its credentials a legal recognition that many independent and unaffiliated Pentecostal ministers desired, many joined the organization.

The first General Secretary of COGIC was a white elder named William B. Holt.

Many white ministers where licenced and ordained under COGIC through what many considered a " gentleman's agreement.

When the Assemblies of God was founded in 1914, invitations were sent only to white Pentecostal ministers including 350 white ministers licensed through COGIC.

Despite this large exodus of white ministers, a number of white ministers and members remained in COGIC until the 1930s.

From that point however, COGIC grew primarily as a predominatly African-American church.

but true memory does not count nor add: it holds fast to things that were and they are outside of time.

For the truth formerly experienced by the community no longer has existential status in the community, nor does any answer elaborated by philosophers or theoriticians.

Because administration of the forest highway system is a responsibility of the Secretary of Commerce with maintenance provided by the States and counties, this Development Program for the National Forests does not include estimates of the funds needed to maintain the forest highway system nor to construct the additions to it that are needed.

In other words, the whole storage and pipeline system does not belong to the homeowners nor to the town but rather to Tri-State.

He has traversed provinces and kingdoms, but he has not consolidated them behind him, nor does he control them.

After all, too much does not happen too suddenly, nor does very little take long.

But the form in which the claim must be stated need not be different from what the State exacts in the enforcement of like obligations created by it, so long as a requirement does not add to, or diminish, the right as defined by Federal law, nor burden the realization of this right in the actualities of litigation ''.

The poem does not distort the syntax of ordinary speech nor draw on exotic sources of diction, yet it is obviously not ordinary speech -- only Hardy would say `` a grin of bitterness swept thereby ; ;

For this does not account for the integral, elemental power of that which grows with abounding vigor as the play unfolds, nor does it explain the strange numinous sense of presentness which comes over those who watch the play like a spell.

Note that " completeness " has a different meaning here than it does in the context of Gödel's first incompleteness theorem, which states that no recursive, consistent set of non-logical axioms of the Theory of Arithmetic is complete, in the sense that there will always exist an arithmetic statement such that neither nor can be proved from the given set of axioms.

Hell, however, does not fit modern, humanitarian concepts of punishment because it cannot deter the unbeliever nor rehabilitate the damned, this however, does not affect the Christian belief which places Biblical teaching above the ideas of society.

It is not concerned with the formation of molecules ( although much of the physics is identical ), nor does it examine atoms in a solid state as condensed matter.

* Article 4 – The treaty does not recognize, dispute, nor establish territorial sovereignty claims ; no new claims shall be asserted while the treaty is in force ;

She does not receive a mitre nor is given a crosier as part of the ceremony ; however, by ancient tradition, she may carry a crosier when leading her community.

The plant is not frost-tolerant, nor does it do well in tropical environments since they require a dry resting period between leaf growth and flower spike production.

One piece of evidence suggesting this is that, although half of Acts centers on Paul, Acts never directly quotes from the Pauline epistles nor does it even mention Paul writing letters.

As with the West Africa theory, this idea does not have the backing of serious historians, nor contemporary written records of the time in the Near East.

# Herodotus nowhere states or implies that peace was concluded between the two states before 481 BC, nor does he distinguish between different wars during this period.

It is not clear why the present order of the books in the Tanakh does not match the order given in the Talmud ( nor does it match that of the Christian Old Testament ).

Therefore, a base on balls does not increase nor decrease a player's batting average, but it does increase his on-base percentage, unless a player's on-base percentage is 1. 000, in which case it remains the same.