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Under her leadership and tenure, COGIC choirs and individual singers came to dominate gospel music producing a number of recordings and gospel hits. She formed her daughters into a singing group who became known as the legendary "Clark Sisters" who helped introduce and became leaders of the contemporary gospel music era.
John Drew Sheard Jr. (born January 1, 1959) [1] is an American pastor and minister from Detroit, Michigan, who is the current presiding bishop of the Church of God in Christ, a six million-member predominantly African-American Holiness Pentecostal denomination that has now grown to become one of the largest African-American Pentecostal denominations in the United States.
Chandler David Owens Sr. (October 2, 1931 – March 6, 2011) was an American minister and Holiness Pentecostal denomination leader of the Church of God in Christ (COGIC), for which he served as the Presiding Bishop from 1995 to 2000, after the death of Bishop Louis Henry Ford.
Charles Edward Blake Sr. (born August 5, 1940) is an American minister and retired pastor who served as the Presiding Bishop and leader of the Church of God in Christ, a 6 million-member Holiness Pentecostal denomination, from 2007 to 2021.
Patterson was born in Memphis, the son of the first international Presiding Bishop of the Church of God in Christ (COGIC), J. O. Patterson Sr. (1912–1989) and Deborah Mason Patterson (1914–1985). He was the grandson of COGIC founder Bishop Charles Harrison Mason (1864–1961) and cousin of the late Presiding Bishop of COGIC Gilbert E ...
Judith Christie McAllister (born September 29, 1963 as Judith F. Christie) is an American Pentecostal gospel musician, the leader of Never Ending Worship, and she was the President of the International Music Department for the Church of God in Christ from 2009 until 2021.
Barnett Karl Thoroughgood (November 7, 1949 – February 5, 2012) was an African-American Holiness Pentecostal minister and church leader of the Church of God in Christ. [1] [2] He was an influential pastor in the city of Virginia Beach, Virginia, and the Hampton Roads area of Virginia known for his public service and who served as the Commissioner of Ecclesiastical Services and the Former ...
Under Blake's leadership, the church grew from 40 members to over 24,000. [3] In 2019, it sold its buildings at 3045 Crenshaw Boulevard to fund the construction of a Family Life Center behind the building at 3600 Crenshaw Boulevard. [4] In 2022, Charles Blake II became senior pastor. [5]