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Supreme Council Meeting Minutes, July 28, 1952 – August 16, 1952

 Item

Abstract

–Colored Overseer to sit with Supreme Council

–Committee Reports

–Report of committee on New Publishing House

–Report from Youth Board

–Appointment of Editor–in–Chief

–Two Assistant to General Overseer – Office of General Secretary–Treasurer

–Constitution of the Full Gospel Church of God in South Africa

–Report of Editorial and Publications Board

–General Secretary–Treasurer

–Report of Editorial and Publications Board

–Two Assistants to General Overseers

–Report of Youth Board

–Report of Committee on Wedding Bands

–C.M. Phillips

–C.L. Moses

–Two Assistant General Overseers

–Appointing Board

–Length of Term General Officials

–Recommend that General Officals be elected or appointed for four years instead of two

–Request for loan: John Glasscock for church building in Maspeth, New York

–Selection of Business Manager

–Appoint Board to determine the qualifiying status of ministers who are employed in various capacites of church other than preaching ministers

–Business Manager to retain ministerial status

–Selection of business manager

–Duties and responsibilities of the General Editorial and Publications Board, the Editor–in–Chief and the Business Manager

–Editorial Policies

–Selection of Youth Director

–Recommendation relative to salaries of Editor–in–Chief, Business Manager, and Editor of the Lighted Pathway

–Reading of Minutes

–Loan to John Glasscock

–Payment of General Assembly expense for State Overseer

–Payment of vacation expenses for General Officals

–Salary of President of Lee College

–Twenty–five percent increase in Aged Minsiters Pensions

–J.L. Dalton

–J.L. Goins

–Exhorters pay into Aged Ministers Fund

–Lee College

–Loan to Sulphur Springs

–Loan to Rock Hill, South Carolina

–George A. Wallace, Colored Overseer

–Orphanage Report

–Request for loan Porterville, California church

–Request for loan Apopka, Florida church

–C.C. Holmes

–J.M. Foshee

–Robert Johnson

–J.W. Coleman

–E.M. Tapley

–Willis Carden

–A.H. Vause

–H.L. Dillinger

–Morris Wiggins

–Minutes read, corrected, approved

–Amend Minutes under Duties of Editor–in–Chief

–E.M. Tapley

–Loans

–Pine Bluff, Arkansas church loan

–Reuben H. Martin note

–Jimmie Rickles note

–John D. Staley

–State of Missouri note

–Harrison, Indiana loan

–M.G. McLuhan loan

–Other loans

–Tithe Fund budget report

–Church History

–Tithe Fund Budget

–Apartment building on people street

–Donation to Charles Conn

–Charles Conn Loan

–Statement in Minutes relative Church of God being non–profit organization

–Church Insignia

–Publishing House Employee's pension plan

–April–revival effort

–C.W. Florence

–Morris Lee

–J.B. Conner

–Jimmy Rickles

–J.H. Griffin

–Obituaries for Ministers in Evangel

–Donation to Commission on Chaplains

–Donation to National Association of Evangelicals

–Publishing House Employee's Pension Plan

–Donation to American Bible Society

–State Officals Personnel

–Experienced Builiding Committee

–State Trustees and Deed form

–Recommendations Selecting Pastors

–Minutes approved

–Appointing Board

–Appointing Board changed to Executive Committee

–Letter from James L. Slay

–Selecting Pastors

–Parsonage incidentals

–Deacons in Local churches –Board of Directors for Lee College

–Changes in 1950: Change in Scripture, Growing Tobacco, two and a half percent Home Missions, raising missions funds, state mission board, Lee College Notes, bobbed hair

–National Youth Board recommednations: National Youth Director, Sunday School, Sunday School Secretaries, Banners, Teachers' Meetings, Y.P.E. State and Secretary Treasurer, Youth Congress recommendations

–Changes in 1950 Minutes: Water baptism, smaller churches grouped together, incorporation, circulation manager, transfer of membership, Aged Ministers' Pension

–Minutes approved

–Wm. L. Jones

–Changes in Minutes: Aged Ministers pension plan, Minsters' Widows pensions, Publishing House profits––Bible Schools, Statement of a non–profit organization

–Selection and Duties of State Secretary and Treasurer

–Changed in 1950 Minutes: Ministerial Students

–Tithe Fund Budget

–Mission Budget

–Tithe Fund Budget

–Publishing House Budget

–Youth Department Budget

–Church History

–Travel expense from General Treasury

–Flowers for Aged Ministers

–Telegram from Bible School in Saskatchewan, Canada

–Letter from Arkansas Church

–Orphanage Superintendent Assistant, Business Manager, Faculty paying tithes

–Uniform plan of receiving transfers

–American Indian

–Two–thirds vote required exclude members

–Lee College employees bonus

–Ministerial applicants above 55 years of age

–R.C. Horton

–Sarah E. Brandhill

–Lawrence N. Jones

–Hazel N. Gann

–James R. Kelso

–Jeanne Alice Magee

–Baxter Wilson

–H.E. Kendrick

–Lottie Blakley

–Rayford Rewis

–Double married persons in ministry

–Receiving double married persons into church

–Textile Mills for benefit of Lee College

–Committee for Church and Parsonage plants

–Reading of Minutes

–C.M. Phillips

–Donations to R.P. Johnson and E.M. Ellis

–Television

–Bobbing Hair

–Ministerial employees be paid from tithe fund

–Uniform plan for transfer members

–Church of God History Book

–Ministers employed in different departments of the Church other than preaching

–Transfer of Membership

–Fifty dollar special allowance for National Youth Director

–Letter appreciation from Charles Conn

–Page 1950 Minutes, Item 25

–General Officals and other department heads employing members of their family

–Amendment of Paragraph 6, page 234, 1950 Assembly Minutes under caption "Funds for the Pensioning of Aged Ministers

–Donation to E.M. Ellis and R.P. Johnson

–Tithe Fund Chart

–Licensing of Aged Ministers

–Morris Wiggins Aged Ministers Pension

–Special appropriation of one hundred and fifty dollars to Morris Wiggins

–Presenting gift to H.L. Chesser

–Selection of Editor of the Lighted Pathway

–Placing Auditors report in the minutes

–Loan for the Porterville, California church

–Loan for the West Hamilton Ohio Church

–Salary of Editor of Lighted Pathway

–H.L. Dillinger

–John Newton

–Construction of homes on property on People and 11th street

–Building Committee

Dates

  • July 28, 1952 – August 16, 1952

Creator

Extent

From the Collection: 3.5 Linear Feet (10 containers)

Language of Materials

English

Repository Details

Part of the Hal Bernard Dixon Jr. Pentecostal Research Center Repository

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