THE COGIC SYMBOL

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 Official Seal was designed in 1973 and adopted in the General Assembly in 1981. 

 

The GARNERED WHEAT in the center of the seal signifies all of the people of the Church of God in Christ. The ROPE of wheat holds the shaft together and 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 in 1907.

​

The DATE in the seal denotes the year Bishop Mason received the baptism of the Holy Ghost and the founding of the Church of God in Christ.

 

The RAIN is symbolic of the Latter Rain which brought about the emergence of our Church along with other Pentecostal Holiness Bodies in the same era. The rain is also a reminder to keep Christ in the center of our worship and service, so He may continue to use the Church of God in Christ as one of the avenues of Pentecostal Revival before the return of the Lord. 

​

*(Source: "So You Want to Know Your Church" by Alferd Z. Hall, Jr.)