Denominational Profile

History

	Church of Christ (Holiness) U.S.A (1894)	continuedChurch of Christ (Holiness) U.S.A
		split into Churches of God, Holiness (1920)

In 1894, C. P. Jones and Charles H. Mason formed the Church of God in Christ as a Holiness body, following their exclusion from fellowship with black Baptists in Arkansas. Mason took most of the body into Pentecostalism in 1907. Those who remained were organized by Jones as the Church of Christ (Holiness) U.S.A.

Membership Data

Year	Clergy	Churches	Members
1935	183	152	6,844
1937	-	145	7,128
1944	-	134	11,751
1946	-	153	9,340
1950	392	139	7,882
1951	-	143	8,676
1952	146	142	7,000
1953	165	142	7,786
1954	-	151	7,789
1955	265	130	7,952
1956	142	151	9,018
1959	151	146	7,621
1965	76	159	9,289
1972	76	159	9,289
1997	223	166	10,243
1998	207	167	10,383
2000	224	163	10,475
2002	229	159	10,321
2003	214	154	10,460
2007	221	148	11,468

Data were taken from the National Council of Churches' Historic Archive CD and recent editions of the Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches. Denomination descriptions provided by Dr. J. Gordon Melton, Director, Institute for the Study of American Religion (ISAR). [More information on data sources]