St. Paul Church Of God In Christ is a Pentecostal assembly of the disciples of The Christ.

 

Saint Paul is an inclusive fellowship, welcoming all persons to come as they are, knowing that God Can and Will Transform all who will say yes to God. Persons are accepted as individuals. God Hates sin, but Loves sinners and Desires that all people repent and be saved. So, this Pentecostal congregation is committed to presenting God’s Gift of Salvation to every unsaved person we meet, while rejecting anything in anyone that is contrary to God's plan for humankind and creation.
 

Bishop Kelly appointed the late Elder Robert Edward Davis Sr. as pastor in Yonkers. Elder Davis organized the members and named us Saint Paul's COGIC. Elder Davis and the late Evangelist Pearl G. Davis, his spouse, working with the saints, established a growing congregation.

  Our congregation shares this name, St. Paul, with the first COGIC, organized and pastored by our sainted COGIC Founder, the late Bishop Charles Harrison Mason, in Lexington, Mississippi. Our Organizing Pastor was also a native of Mississippi.
  In 1941 Elder and Evangelist Robert E. Davis organized  St. Paul's Church of God In Christ in a storefront at 75 School Street with their children and a small congregation. As the congregation grew, the church moved to larger building at 120 Riverdale Avenue where they resided for 25 years.

Through faith and prayers God blessed them the church attracted a $1200 donation from the Colgate Palmolive Foundation and purchased the former Messiah Baptist Church, which was located at 9 Ashburton Place. Since 1968's, the St. Paul COGIC has worshipped in its own building at 9 Ashburton Place.

  After the death of the organizing pastor, his eldest son, the late Elder James Davis, succeeded his father as pastor and served for about 10 years. Later, another son, Elder Earl Davis, lead the congregation and served for over three years. 

  We were blessed to be under the teaching and leadership of Dr. Rev. John W. Redic from 1995 until late 2012. 

  May God ever Bless us to be appreciative for our roots as Pentecostals, especially those pioneers whom God Has Used to bless and enrich our lives.

"We come this far by faith."

THE CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST is a Church of the Lord Jesus Christ in which the word of God is preached, ordinances are administered and the doctrine of sanctification or holiness is emphasized, as being essential to the salvation of mankind. Our Church is commonly known as being Holiness or Pentecostal in nature because of the importance ascribed to the events which occurred on the Day of Pentecost, as being necessary for all believers in Christ Jesus to experience. On the Day of Pentecost, Supernatural Manifestations descended in marvelous copiousness and power. The sudden appearance of the Holy Ghost appealed first to the ear. The disciples heard a "sound" from heaven which rushed with a mighty force into the house and filled it--even as a storm rushes--but there was no wind. It was the sound that filled the house and not a wind, an invisible cause producing audible effects. Next, the eye was arrested by the appearance of tongues of fire which rested on each of the gathered COMPANY. Finally, there was the impartation of a new strange power to speak in languages they had never learned "as the Spirit gave them Utterance."

Our Church is also considered to be a member of the great Protestant body though it did not directly evolve from the European or English Reformation but had its origin within the General Association to the Baptist Church.

Elder Charles Harrison Mason, is the founder and organizer of the Church of God in Christ. Under Bishop Mason's spiritual and apostolic direction our church has grown from ten congregations in 1907, to the second largest Pentecostal group in America.

Churches under the parent body in Memphis, Tennessee, are now established throughout the United States, in every continent, and in many of the islands of the sea. https://www.cogic.org/