OFFICIAL HANDBOOK

OFFICIAL

HANDBOOK

FOR

DEPARTMENT OF WOMEN

CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST, INC.

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OFFICIAL

HANDBOOK

FOR

DEPARTMENT OF WOMEN

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OFFICIAL WOMEN'S HANDBOOK

Revised Edition

Of

Organization and Procedures

First Edition

Complied and Supplemented by

Frances Sipes Curtis and Selma Lockett

Edited by Cora A. Berry

First Revised Edition

Complied and Supplemented by

Madge Cyars and Frances Sipes Curtis

Second Revised Edition-1989

by

Dr. Mattie McGlothen

General Supervisor, Department of Women

with the assistance of

Madge Cyars

Dr. St. Carrie Dinwiddie

Lucy Flagg Ntreh

Willie Mae Rivers

Third Revised Edition - 2002

By

Mother Willie Mae Rivers

General Supervisor, Department of Women

With the assistance of

Elizabeth Nash

Geraldine E. Miller

Edith L. McGrew

Barbara McCoo Lewis

Olive L. Brown

Stella Watson

Madge Cyars

Diane Bogan

Annie Moody

Bishop C. H. Mason - Founder

Bishop J. O. Patterson, Sr. - First Presiding Bishop

Bishop G. E. Patterson - Presiding Prelate

Reprinted January, 1994

Reprinted April, 1999

This latest revision

Approved by the General Board

September, 2002

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PREFACE .......................................................................................... 1

HISTORY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF WOMEN ......................... 3

I. GENERAL LEADERSHIP ................................................................ 5

GENERAL SUPERVISOR ............................................................... 6

ASSISTANT GENERAL SUPERVISOR ......................................... 7

JURISDICTIONS SUPERVISOR ..................................................... 8

II. BOARDS ....................................................................................... 13

EXECUTIVE BOARD .................................................................... 14

GENERAL SUPERVISOR¡¯S REPRESENTATIVE BOARD ........ 15

III. CIRCLES ..................................................................................... 17

NATIONAL OFFICER'S WIVES ................................................... 18

BISHOP'S WIVES CIRCLE ........................................................... 18

SUPERINTENDENT'S WIVES ...................................................... 18

PASTOR'S WIVES ......................................................................... 19

ELDER'S AND MINISTER'S WIVES ........................................... 19

DEACON'S WIVES CIRCLE ......................................................... 20

IV. AUXILIARIES ............................................................................ 21

PRAYER AND BIBLE BAND ....................................................... 22

SEWING CIRCLE/ARTISTIC FINGERS ...................................... 22

WOMEN'S HOME AND FOREIGN MISSION BAND ............... 23

PURITY CLASS ............................................................................. 24

SUNSHINE BAND ......................................................................... 25

V. UNITS ............................................................................................ 27

DISTRICT MISSIONARY ............................................................. 28

ASPIRING MISSIONARY ............................................................. 29

DEACONESS MISSIONARY ........................................................ 30

STATE/JURISDICTIONAL EVANGELIST MISSIONARY ........ 30

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