Mary Helen Peak Patterson, a "tireless crusader" in the effort to preserve the history of the Memphis-based Church of God in Christ and the widow of J.O. Patterson Sr., the church's longtime ...

Mary P. Patterson, who was the widow of a Church of God in Christ presiding bishop and became known for her efforts to preserve the history of the historically Black Pentecostal denomination, died on ...

The Holy Convocation is the largest annual convention of the Church of God in Christ (COGIC), which is the nation’s largest Pentecostal denomination. The convention was held in at the Dome At ...