Bishop Charles Mason

It was out of this study that led Parham to the conclusion this was the biblical way a person received the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Parham moved to Houston Texas and started a church and bible school. It was at this school where a student name William Joseph Seymour, a black man attended the training sessions that Parham taught. Because of the laws of segregation at the time Seymour was forced to sit in the hallway and listen to the teachings of Parham. Seymour desired

Methodism operated in both the state-at-large and in New Orleans. By 1847 there were thirteen Methodist appointments with 1,328 white and 1,280 Negro members in New Orleans alone.20 In Louisiana, the circuit system was at work and by 1850 there were more Methodist churches in Louisiana than any other church denomination. The Methodist conference that met at Mansfield in 1854 reported 5,085 white and 5,459 black members – a gain of 1,000 over the previous year.15 Data shows that in William J. Seymour’s St. Mary’s Parish, the Methodist were present in the 1800’s.21

Modern Pentecostalism can find its roots in the early 20th century revivals of the practices of Spirit-infilling, ecstatic worship, and a strict adherence to the literal interpretation of the Bible. Some consider one of the appeals of the Pentecostal movement in its early years, as well as today, to be an inclusive, "whosoever may" attitude of multiculturalism and evangelism (Longman, 2012). Though Pentecostal organizations exist that are predominantly Caucasian, Black, or Hispanic, a growing trend of incorporating all ethnicities within one congregation has led to a dramatic increase in multicultural congregations within several of the established

October 5, 1889 was the day Charles became the first ordained black Seventh-Day Adventist preacher. And on February 16, 1890 Charles helped create the second black Seventh-Day Adventist church in the world. Shortly after Charles went to go help the first black Seventh-day Adventist Church in Edgefield Junction, Tennessee. In Edgefield Junction Charles worked for the General Conference. The General Conference invited Charles to speak at the Battle Creek, Michigan

Barton Warren Stone, American preacher and clergyman, was one of the most influential figures during the Restoration Movement. Intelligent and determined, Stone worked with others to form a church that was based solely on the principles of scripture, rather than those of the human mind. Stone’s accomplishments and actions impacted a prodigious amount of people during the 19th century and they continue to influence us today. On December 24, 1772, Barton W. Stone was born to John Stone and Mary Warren in Port-Tobacco, Maryland.

I found many interesting parts about African American Baptist churches and how it all started and what caught my eye was the very first African American baptist church was the oldest and it was constituted at Silver Bluff about a year or two before he revolutionary war and started early in 1775. The silver bluff was located on the South Carolina side of Savannah River in Aiken County and was only twelve miles in distance from Augusta, GA. In my findings it shows that the founders by the name of Andrew Bryan, George Liele and it was in the 1770s Savannah’s First Baptist Church and it was an independent during the slavery era. It also showed that there was a large number of black baptist secretly worshipped meetings on their own. The black baptist

The Making of the 1963 Baptist Faith and Message. A. J. Smith Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2008.

In 1845, a group of men met in Augusta, Georgia to organize the Southern Baptist Convention, “to promote Foreign and Domestic Missions and other important objects connected with the Redeemer’s Kingdom,” among Baptist churches in the South. Part of the strategy to promote domestic missions was to create the Domestic Mission Board which would be located in Marion, AL with the initial delegated tasks of developing and executing religious education for blacks in the South and “to aid the present effort, to establish the Baptist cause in the city of New Orleans.”

Charles Harrison Mason, born September 8, 1866, is the founding father of the COGIC denomination. He his the son to two ex-slaves, Jerry and Eliza. Mason was baptised in 1878 after he recovered from his illness of tuberculosis. When he was able to go off to school, he attended Arkansas Baptist College, a historically black college. Mason found his calling in preaching, decided

“The number of blacks who received religious instruction in antebellum white churches is significant because the church was the only institution other than the plantation which played a major role in acculturating the slave “(Blassingame, The Slave Community, p. 98). African Americans found their strength in the church, because they secretly met outside of the church in invisible churches to discuss freedom, liberty, and how god is judging against the slave-owners. The church offered a sanctuary against the harsh realities of the plantation and allowed them to connect with one another and gain

Historically in the African American community the church has been a one stop shop: a welcoming spot for newcomers, a refuge for the needy, and a source of guidance for

In the article McCall explains how the desire for new diverse religions in the area at that time sparked the beginning to the Anti-Mason Party (24). He goes on to describe how vulnerable the majority of the population is, in New York at that time, to the influence of a more modern view of religion (McCall 24-25). McCall also goes

Lincoln, C. Eric, and Lawrence H. Mamiya. The Black Church in the African-American Experience. Durham: Duke UP, 1990. Print.

The Mt. The Peace Missionary Baptist Association of Western NC was established around the year 1890. The earliest recorded history is derived from the 44th annual session’s minutes.  The Association was held at the Gold Hill Baptist Church, Lowesville, NC on October 16-19, 1912.

The late Apostle Arturo Skinner purchased the Temple as the spiritual headquarters for the Pentecostal Deliverance Movement. He bridged many gaps between ethnic and social groups by gathering various races and nationalities from around the world at the Temple.