TOUR OF THE HOLY SITES - LEXINGTON, MS & MEMPHIS, TN

Wednesday, March 9, 2011-

Mrs. Mary P. Patterson, Executive Director - Heritage Connection and widow of Presiding Bishop J.O. Patterson Sr., 1968-1989, has agreed to lead a tour of Church of God in Christ holy sites in Lexington (MS) and Memphis (TN). The tour will occur on Wednesday, March 9, 2011, the day before the beginning of the Society for Pentecostal Studies (SPS) annual meeting.                                                                                                                                 
Guest will see St. Paul Church of God In Christ (the Mother Church), Asia Baptist Church, Saints Industrial and Literary School, Holmes County Courthouse which has the jail cell where Bishop C. H. Mason was imprisoned in 1918 for allegedly preaching against the war, and other sites in Lexington, in addition to Mason Temple in Memphis, TN.
Three scholars will accompany the tour and provide historical commentary: Dr. Elton Weaver (COGIC historian and Assistant Professor of History, LeMoyne-Owen College); Dr. Anjulet Tucker (Assistant Professor of Sociology and Religion, Boston University); and Dr. Percy Washington (Pastor of Sweet Canaan COGIC, Lexington, MS).                                                  

Lexington MS/Holmes County Courthouse