Historical Marker
St. Paul Church of God in Christ
Lexington, Holmes County · Mississippi
Erected by Mississippi Department of Archives and History, 2016
The denomination's name, Charles Mason said, came to him on a trip to Little Rock, and he found it in the letters to the Thessalonians and Galatians. In 1899 he met Charles Price Jones, J. A. Jeter and W. S. Pleasant in Jackson to join Black holiness congregations in Arkansas, Tennessee and Mississippi, with Jones as general overseer. Mississippi held the church's first large following. In 1917 the church opened Saints Industrial College in Lexington for Holmes County children, and in 1926 Mason named Arenia Mallory its president.
Where it stands
33.10256, -90.05354 · Directions
Worth the stop nearby
- Triangle Cultural Center — 27 miA 1904 school on Main Street in Yazoo City that survived the great fire of that May and now holds the county's historical museum, in a town rebuilt in brick on the same lots.
More markers nearby
- Dr. Arenia Conelia Mallory — 0.2 mi
- Holmes County Blues — 0.6 mi
- Hazel Brannon Smith — 0.6 mi
- Bishop Charles H. Mason — 0.7 mi