Monday, August 03, 2009

Mississippi Church of God history book available online

The last 3 months I've been designing a book on the history of the Church of God in Mississippi. I uploaded the 131-page book this weekend, and it is available for free download online at www.morgantowncog.org/history.htm

This history traces the beginning of the Church of God in Mississippi in 1909 and its development through the mid-1940s. The book is interactive with embedded audio and video files, including a complete sermon by Ralph Boyles, a sermon excerpt by G.G. Williams, a testimony by Mamie Williams, a 1919 song written by Annie Heath and M.S. Lemons, and a video of Thelma Neal singing "Over There" at the 1993 Mississippi Church of God Camp Meeting.

I hope to expand the history to the current time by the year 2012, which will be 100 years since the first Church of God congregation was officialy organized in Mississippi.

This work represents more than 20 years of personal research and interviews, beginning in my early teens. I'm pleased to provide it free-of-charge to the people of Mississippi, many of whom served as mentors in my early Christian formation.

I hope this history educates, inspires, and blesses those who read it. Please help me spread the word about it. Also, if anyone notices anything that is incorrect, please let me know. Enjoy!

1 comments:

Melanie said...

Louis, thank you so much for visiting my blog and leaving such an encouraging comment about Mamaw and Papaw. It's bothersome to me that people try to "theologize" me out of beleiving that healing is God's will and He will do a miracle.
I was so glad to see your comment this morning!
Melanie