Excerpts  from

"Directory of Churches, Missions, and Religious Institutions of Tennessee: 

Knox County, Knoxville"

The Tennessee Historical Records Survey, Work Projects Administration

1941

 

CHURCHES OF GOD AND HOLINESS BODIES:

  1. Church of God (1), (2)
  2. Church of God (Tomlinson)
  3. Church of God - Holiness (Colored)
  4. Unassociated  Churches of God
  5. Church of God in Christ, USA (Colored)
  6. Church of God of the Union Assembly, Incorporated
  7. Church of God or Sanctified Church (Colored)
  8. Church of the Living God, The Pillar and Ground of the Truth (Colored)
  9. Fire Baptized Holiness Church of God of the Americas (Colored)
  10. Full Gospel Bible Mission
  11. Pilgrim Holiness Church

Church of God in Christ, U.S.A:
(Colored)

Boards, Publications & Institutions:

Name & Location (as of 1941) Name of Executive (as of 1941)

National Convention
1121 Mississippi Blvd
Memphis, Tennessee

Bishop Charles H. Mason
General Overseer

Board of Overseers: Bishop Charles H. Mason, Chairman
Home and Foreign Missions Board Bishop A. B. McEwen, Chairman
National Trustee Board: Bishop A. B. McEwen, Chairman
Whole Truth Elia V. Sparks, Editor
Tennessee Convocation: Bishop A. B. McEwen, Overseer
District of East Tennessee Elder Clarence G. Bright

 Churches:

Status (1941) Name & Location of
Church or Institution
Date Organized Name of Pastor or Executive (1941)
Active Church of God in Christ
612 Ohio St.
1929 Elder Lawrence G. Washington
Active Church of God in Christ
214 Marion St.
1928 Elder F. M. McGhee
Defunct Church of God in Christ
115 Douglass St.
1928-41 Elder Haywood Cleveland Brown

 

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