I started attending the CoG in about 1958. My wife and I started at Lee in 1969. I was ordained in 1978. I personally knew many great and wonderful men of God, most who have gone onto their reward. However, those who became a part of the CoG during past 20+ years or so have very little understanding of the CoG. I cherish the years of my early years in the CoG and the wonderful experiences it afforded me.
I have been in the COG since birth but I am only 17. I hope to grow in the COG and have a heritage to pass down to my children if the Lord doesn’t come back before then
It has changed in the past 20-25 years. 5th generation COG. I went to Lee in 1976. Several family members also went to Lee. My gg grandmother and g grandmother joined during a tent revival J. W Buchalew and A. J. Tomlinson conducted in Alabama City and Gadsden, AL around 1910. My grandfather Terry F. Pike organized and pastored a bunch of small COG churches in Alabama and Florida for 50 years.
We cannot help our entrance into the COG, I am first generation COG myself came in the church of God in 1991, was not saved until 1986, baptized in the Holy Ghost in 1987.
I was born in Mississippi in 1961, so to say I am not a youngster anymore being 55 now. Hopefully I am raising the 2nd generation of the church of God in my daughter. I only have one child.
But saying that I came up under great some great pastor’s and men of God. I pray for my church everyday, I ask God to lead her in the right Way’s and to keep the fires of Pentecost burning.
I thank God for the time I had in the CoG. It was a great blessing to me as I hope I was to the many CoGs that I preached in. However, I felt my final decision to resign from the CoG (Cleveland, TN) was confirmed at the 1986 G.A. when they changed (deleted) the CoG Practical Teachings.
It’s my home
Never leaving
Been mighty good to me