WOMEN OF COGIC

Sister Mason was an evangelist, she served as the executive secretary for the Missions Department, edited COGIC’s official newspaper The Whole Truth and worked as a secretary in the denomination’s missions department.

She even served as a missionary in Haiti and founded an orphanage.

Sister Mason, a very young widow when Bishop Mason died gave an offering to help black sanitation workers in the city who were striking because of unfair pay. “When the sanitation workers went on strike, they met at Mason Temple COGIC and she made the first donation, $90 of her own money, to buy food for them.”

She was an amazing woman of God.

Mother Deborah Mason PattersonMother Deborah M. Patterson (1914-1985) was the fifth child born among nine to the sainted Founder of the Church of God in Christ, Bishop Charles Harrison Mason and his dear wife, Lelia Washington Mason, on September 22… — Mother Deborah Mason Patterson
Mother Deborah M. Patterson (1914-1985) was the fifth child born among nine to the sainted Founder of the Church of God in Christ, Bishop Charles Harrison Mason and his dear wife, Lelia Washington Mason, on September 22, 1914 in Lexington, Mississippi.
On Independence Day, July 4, 1934, Mother Patterson wed a young minister, Elder James Oglethorpe Patterson Sr., who served in her father's congregation and later became the first elected Presiding Bishop and Chief Apostle of the Church of God in Christ. Mother Patterson vowed to be his help meet and she kept her word fifty years and three-hundred and thirty-two days of marriage to Presiding Bishop J. O. Patterson Sr.
As a model First Lady, Wife, and Mother of their children, James Oglethorpe Jr. and Janet Laverne, she lived to care for her family and the people of God.
Through the years Mother Patterson worked in the various segments of her Church. Mother Patterson served the local Church as President of the Sanctuary Choir, which she gave birth to and nurtured for some forty-four years (renamed the Deborah Mason Patterson Memorial Choir in her honor). From this aggregation, she hand-picked singers to organize and establish the legendary Pentecostal Ensemble, a gospel group with national acclaim and popularity.
Mother Patterson was also Director of the Christmas Club, a benevolent society which fed the less fortunate throughout the year and particularly during Thanksgiving and Christmas.
In the Jurisdiction she served as District Missionary of the Pentecostal District and as a Member of the Advisory Board for the Department of Women. In the National Church she served as President of the Bishop's Wives Circle, International Marshall of the Women’s Convention and Secretary-Treasurer of the Department of Missions.
Mother Patterson’s life was one of love for members of her immediate family, the “Big Happy” Pentecostal Temple family, the Tennessee Headquarters Jurisdiction, and the saints of the Church of God in Christ worldwide.

Mother Lizzie Woods Robinson (1860–1945) was born a slave on April 5, 1860 in Phillips County, Arkansas, to Mose Smith and Elizabeth Jackson. She served as the First General Supervisor in the Church of God in Christ from 1911 to 1945.

Mother Woods was a woman of high standings who had made quite an outstanding record in public service as a teacher of the Word of God. Through the powerful teaching of Elder D. W. Welk, Mother Robinson became attracted to the Church of God in Christ, and in 1911, while Bishop Mason was running a revival, she received the baptism of the Holy Ghost. Bishop Mason was impressed with her ability to organize and direct and her knowledge of the scriptures, that during the Holy Convocation of 1911, Bishop Mason established a Women’s department and appointed Mother Lizzie Robinson as the First Supervisor over the women’s work in the Church of God in Christ.

Mother Robinson has been described as the “Pioneering Foremother” of the Church of God in Christ. In 1916, Mother Robinson and her husband, Elder Edward D. Robinson, move to Omaha, Nebraska, where they established the first Church of God in Christ in Nebraska.

The Church was eventually named after them: Robinson Memorial.

It was later placed in Nebraska’s National Register for Historic Places.

Mother Mattie McGlothenShe served as a Supervisor in California for sixty-one years (1933 -1994), and as a General Supervisor for the International Women’s Department and Third President of the Women’s International Convention of the Church of God i… — Mother Mattie McGlothen
She served as a Supervisor in California for sixty-one years (1933 -1994), and as a General Supervisor for the International Women’s Department and Third President of the Women’s International Convention of the Church of God in Christ for eighteen years (1976 - 1994).
She founded, organized or reorganized the International Hospitality; Education and Scholarship Fund; Bishop’s Wives Scholarship Fund; Screening Committee for Jurisdictional Supervisors, McGlothen Foundation; Emergency Relief Fund; WE-12; Lavendar Ladies; Leadership Conference for Jursidictional Leaders and National Workers; and the Business and Professional Women’s Federation.
The Pavilion in Port-au-Prince, Haiti; a home for missionaries in the Bahamas island, McGlothen House Annex, Women’s Department Office and guest house and the Women’s Convention Project, “I Am Concerned,” were a few of her humanitarian efforts.
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