Welcome to The Church of God!

We wish to thank you for visiting our website and our hope is that you will find something that blesses you spiritually and also causes you to investigate more thoroughly the workings and worship of The Church of God.

The Church of God is grounded in a strong tradition of New Testament teaching and experience. We trace our modern beginnings from the Protestant Reformation through the Methodist Revival to the spiritual awakening of the Pentecostal Revival.

From our humble beginnings in 1903 to the great successes in ministry and service of subsequent decades, The Church of God has always been dedicated to the premise of renewal of authentic New Testament Christianity and restoration of the Bible church – a commitment both to truth and to people.

Over the years, progressive steps and organizational reformations have produced the restoration of many doctrines, practices, and ministries of the New Testament Church that had been lost during the Middle Ages. As a result of our history we have come to our present condition of restored truth and ministry to people.

“That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God requireth that which is past” – Ecclesiastes 3:15.


“THE LOVE OF GOD”


God not only loves us, He is love. Love is the expression of His personality and His nature. He is the source from which all love is derived. In the Old Testament, His love is seen through His covenant with Israel and demonstrated in the mercy, forgiveness, and deliverance which He showed unto them. In the New Testament, God’s love is shown in and through Jesus, His beloved and only begotten Son. –Minister Marlene Carney

KEY TEXT: “The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee” (Jeremiah 31:3).

The object of God’s love is first and foremost His own Son, Jesus Christ. Consider the Father’s love for the Son as you read Matthew 3:16,17; 17:5, and John 17:24. Jesus was loved of the Father “before the foundation of the world.” There exists an eternal affection between the Father and the Son. Since God’s love is eternal, the Son is the eternal being who has been the object of the Father’s love throughout eternity (Micah 5:2). How is Jesus lovingly described in the prophecy of Isaiah 42:1?

God also loves the believer with an exceptional love. Those who are united by faith and love to Jesus are the special object of the Father’s love (John 17:21-23; I John 4:15,16). Jesus wanted His disciples to know that they would receive the same treatment/rejection from the world as He had. However, He also told them that they would receive of the same love that He had received from the Father (John 16:27; 14:21,23).

When we consider the ungodliness of mankind–who are lost in trespasses and sins, it is hard to comprehend that “God so loved the world.” Because of His love, God does not want anyone to perish (I Timothy 2:1-4; II Peter 3:9). The Heavenly Father gave His only begotten Son to redeem fallen man (Romans 5:6-8; Ephesians 2:1-9). God not only loves the whole world, but each individual in it (Galatians 2:20).

God manifests His love by providing for the physical, mental, moral, and spiritual needs of His people (Isaiah 48:21; Exodus 16:9-15; John 6:35,48-51). God’s love was also shown when He felt His people’s sorrows and afflictions (Isaiah 63:9). Because of His great love, God corrects His children (Hebrews 12:5-9). Our very redemption from sin is to be attributed to God’s wondrous love (Isaiah 38:17).


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The Presiding Bishop and the Twelve

Front Row (L-R) Bishop Timothy Miller, Pastor of Cleveland Tennessee; Bishop Joseph Mizell, Territorial Bishop over North & South Carolina; Bishop Calvin Cook (1934-2008); Bishop Tito Galvan, Territorial Bishop over Mexico; Bishop Ralph Campbell, Pastor of Clarion Pennsylvania; Bishop Percy Williams, Pastor of Baton Rouge Louisiana.
Back Row (L-R) Bishop Mahlon Helmuth, Pastor of Piedmont South Carolina; Bishop Roy Piper, Assistant Territorial Bishop over Pennsylvania, Montana & Arkansas, Pastor of Youngstown Pennsylvania; Bishop Lavell Craig, Right Hand Witness, Pastor of Ocala Florida; Presiding Bishop Samuel Kramer; Bishop David Lam, Territorial Bishop over Pennsylvania, Montana, & Arkansas, Pastor of Jonesboro Arkansas; Bishop David Kramer, Spokesman for the Twelve; Bishop Victor Helmuth, Pastor of Gadsden Alabama.

2009 Calendar

• Jul 5-11: Family Camp (Pennsylvania)

• Aug (TBA): Highway Gospel Caravan

• Sep 19: The Feast of Trumpets (Rosh Hashanah)

• Sep 28: Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur)

• Oct 3-9: The Feast of Tabernacles

• Nov 9-12: Fall Minister's Council

• Dec 20-26: International Youth Camp

Scripture Center

• "At that time the disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Who then is greatest in the kingdom of heaven?” Then Jesus called a little child to Him, set him in the midst of them, and said, “Assuredly, I say to you, unless you are converted and become as little children, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven. Therefore whoever humbles himself as this little child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. Whoever receives one little child like this in My name receives Me.”. - Matthew 18:1-5 NKJV

• "But I say to you who hear: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, and pray for those who spitefully use you. To him who strikes you on the one cheek, offer the other also. And from him who takes away your cloak, do not withhold your tunic either. Give to everyone who asks of you. And from him who takes away your goods do not ask them back. And just as you want men to do to you, you also do to them likewise.”. - Luke 6:27-31 NKJV

• "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. For by it the elders obtained a good testimony. By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible.”. - Hebrews 11:1-3 NKJV