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COGICWest.Org is a place of unity and support for the Church of God in Christ.Jurisdictions of the four-corner states of Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming, along with our friends in Arizona and Montana, celebrating our oneness in Christ and streamlining communications and events planning. Our online fellowship hall and central source for communication and ministerial support, by means of this online ministry we are no longer simply forty-seven isolated churches scattered across 104,100 square miles. We are, now more than ever, one church, one body, the physical and ideological distance between us narrowed by our ready access to this online resource.

To our COGICWest Family: this is your home, your ministry. We welcome your participation here, your suggestions and input. Please visit our Message Forums and start or join in discussions there about jurisdictional events, needs and concerns. Please send us your announcements and church calendars and help us keep this web ministry current. We also encourage all of our member churches to sign up for a web page and email service for your ministry. Click here for more information. We pray that this new work of God will draw us ever closer together, that we might speak with one voice, setting aside those things which divide us and strengthening our churches, our communities and our families by drawing closer together in the unity of Christ.

Be humble and gentle.

Be patient with each other, making allowance for each other's faults because of your love. Always keep yourselves united in the Holy Spirit, and bind yourselves together with peace. We are all one body, we have the same Spirit, and we have all been called to the same glorious future. There is only one Lord, one faith, one baptism, and there is only one God and Father, who is over us all and in us all and living through us all. However, he has given each one of us a special gift according to the generosity of Christ. That is why the Scriptures say, "When he ascended to the heights, he led a crowd of captives and gave gifts to his people."

Notice that it says "he ascended." This means that Christ first came down to the lowly world in which we live. The same one who came down is the one who ascended higher than all the heavens, so that his rule might fill the entire universe. He is the one who gave these gifts to the church: the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, and the pastors and teachers. Their responsibility is to equip God's people to do his work and build up the church, the body of Christ, until we come to such unity in our faith and knowledge of God's Son that we will be mature and full grown in the Lord, measuring up to the full stature of Christ.

Then we will no longer be like children, forever changing our minds about what we believe because someone has told us something different or because someone has cleverly lied to us and made the lie sound like the truth. Instead, we will hold to the truth in love, becoming more and more in every way like Christ, who is the head of his body, the church. Under his direction, the whole body is fitted together perfectly. As each part does its own special work, it helps the other parts grow, so that the whole body is healthy and growing and full of love.

About The Church of God In Christ6  
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The Church of God In Christ's mission and goal is to reach out to the community and to the world by allowing God to lead us with love, knowledge, wisdom and understanding. Our purpose is for Christ’s church to be perfected and that He be glorified.

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. The Church of God In Christ was organized and founded by Elder Charles Harrison Mason. 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. The membership of the Church of God in Christ grew from three million in 1973 to an estimated eight million in 1997. 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. 

The Symbol of the Church Of God In Christ is an outgrowth of the Presiding Bishop's Coat of Arms which has become quite familiar to the Church. The design of the Official Seal of the Church was created in 1973 and adopted in the General Assembly in 1981 (April Session).

The obvious GARNERED WHEAT in the center of the seal represents all of the people of the Church Of God In Christ, Inc. The ROPE of wheat which holds the shaft together represents the Founding Father of the Church, Bishop Charles Harrison Mason, who, at the call of the Lord, banded us together as a Brotherhood of Churches in the First Pentecostal General Assembly of the Church, in 1907.

The date in the seal has a two-fold purpose; Firstly, to tell us that Bishop Mason received the baptism of the Holy Ghost in March 1907; and, Secondly, to tell us that it was because of this outpouring that Bishop Mason was compelled to call us together in November of 1907, to organize the Church Of God In Christ.

The RAIN in the background represents the Latter Rain or the End-time Revivals which brought about the emergence of our Church along with other Pentecostal Holiness Bodies in the same era. The rain also serves as a challenge to the Church to keep Christ in the center of our worship and service, so that He may continue to use the Church Of God In Christ as one of the vehicles of Pentecostal Revival before the return of the Lord.

This information was reprinted from the book So You Want to Know Your Church
by Alferd Z. Hall, Jr.

The Colorado State symbol of the Bishop: The wheat to the left of the cross represents the harvest of souls. The sword to the right of the cross represents the power of the Word of the Bishopric. The cup and ring to the bottom lefty of the dross symbolizes the consecration and the date of the consecration is engraved in the ring. The Bible displayed represents the basics of ministry. The top ribbon identifies the Colorado Jurisdiction and the bottom ribbon signifies our denominational affiliation, the Church of God In Christ.