Walter Lee Hawkins was an American gospel singer, songwriter, composer, and pastor. An influential figure in urban contemporary gospel music, his career spanned more than four decades. He was consecrated to the bishopric in 2000.
Hawkins performed on stage in the East Room of the White House, where he was joined on stage by his brother Edwin, Tuesday, June 17, 2008, in honor of Black Music Month.
The Church of God in Christ (COGIC) is an international Holiness–Pentecostal Christian denomination, and the largest Pentecostal denomination in the United States. Although an international and multi-ethnic religious organization, it has a predominantly African American membership based within the United States. The international headquarters is in Memphis, Tennessee. The current Presiding Bishop is Bishop John Drew Sheard Sr., who is the Senior Pastor of the Greater Emmanuel Institutional Church of God in Christ of Detroit, Michigan. He was elected as the denomination's leader on March 27, 2021.
First Church of God in Christ at Park Place and Kingston Avenue in Brooklyn, New York; it took over a former synagogue
Baptism performed in Lake Mead in 1972 by members of the North Las Vegas Church of God in Christ
COGIC Cathedral complex in Detroit
Antonio Burke, pastor for the Center of Love Church of God in Christ (COGIC), leads Sailors from amphibious transport dock USS Nashville (LPD-13) in a prayer before building a house for Habitat for Humanity in Norfolk, Va.
