OUR AIM : To Know Christ and to make Him known ! Christ International Churches primary call and commission is to glorify Jesus Christ, our Savior, who alone gave His life upon the cross to redeem us from all sin and iniquity, and sent us forth with the "Word of Life " into all the world.
Pentecostal history reveals the outpouring of the Holy Spirit beginning in the early part of 1901 in Topeka, Kansas, then on to Houston, Texas ; there from Azusa Street Mission, to Memphis< Tennessee and Jackson, Mississippi; a movement that originally was called the Apostolic Faith Movement, now later called the Pentecostal Movement.

The great impetus of this movement touched the life of Bishop J. L. Payne under the ministry of the late Bishop A. B. McEwen. Bishop Payne received the baptism of the Holy Ghost as spoken of in the book of Acts and began spreading the Gospel across the Nation and the World.
After establishing seven churches, beginning from the islands of Hawaii to Memphis, Tennessee; In 1984, he and several ministers formed and organized the Community Pentecostal Churches International in Jackson, Mississippi to serve the several churches established in Mississippi. After a few years it became an increasing demand to meet the needs of local churches and ministers worldwide- Thus the Christ Churches of God in Christ, USA was born.

OUR CREED : the Bible and the Bible only !
Bishop J. L. Payne, Presiding Bishop and Chief Apostle in a special meeting in 1998 at its Annual Laborers' Meeting, an International Board of Bishops were organized to began to meet the call and need of the  Christ Churches of God in Christ, USA - International. An Executive Board and General Board of Bishop has been called into existence accordingly to the Twelve Apostles.

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