How many of you attend Churches that were split?

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Originally Posted by Sam

I live in the Cincinnati, Ohio area.
Right now there are 3 UPC churches in this city and more in the surrounding area.

I don't know a lot about the history of Oneness Pentecostalism but from my understanding there was at least one Jesus' name church in the nineteen twenties. My father-in-law, who has been dead now for several years, spoke of going to services and to baptisms in the Ohio River when he was a child.

I'm not sure who pastored here years ago. I think it was a man named Brother Washington. There may have been several churches (Colored --as the term was back then and white).

In 1925 Bro. Frank Curts came to Cincinnati from Indiana. He started with a group of 13 people who were a split off a church that was here. His church was called Bethlehem Tabernacle and later First Apostolic. He was affiliated with Bishop Haywood, later PAJC, and later UPC. I went to that church in the late nineteen fifties and early nineteen sixties.

In 1945 there was a split. A group left the church pastored by Bro. Curts and formed a new congregation which was called the Full Gospel Church. Later the name changed to Carthage Apostolic Church and then later to Covenant Apostolic Church. This was considered a UPC church briefly but that was not allowed for long. The first pastor was named Bro. E.G. Lowe. He was replaced in 1947 by Bro. James Verdier. Then in January 1953, Bro. Joe David Sizemore came as pastor. I attended this church in the nineteen sixties and seventies. At that time Bro. Sizemore was in the ALJC. I don't know what organizations the other pastors were with. I left that church in the 1978/1979 period.

In 1968 or so, the church pastored by Bro. Curts had another split. The assistant pastor, Bro. Norman Paslay, was replaced by Bro. Leroy Buller, so Bro. Paslay and a group left and formed Covenant Church which was UPC. For a while there were two competing UPC churches in Cincinnati plus the ALJC church. These 3 churches were all made up of family members from the same families. Soon, there was fellowship between the UPC church pastored by Bro. Paslay and the ALJC church pastored by Bro. Sizemore but neither fellowshipped the church pastored by Bro. Buller. People came and went and switched membership in the different churches. These 3 churches were predominantly white. There have been and still are several churches in the area which are considered to be African American churches.

Bro. Sizemore appointed his son as pastor in the ALJC church and retired to position of Bishop. Several families left the church and formed another church in a neighboring city which became a UPC church. Bro. Sizemore's son later resigned as pastor and Bro. Sizemore died. That church is now pastored by Bro. Hendricks as a UPC church.

So, now there are 4 UPC churches, predominantly white, made up of people from the same families and 3 of those churches are splits off the original split church established by Bro. Curts in 1925.

I think I remember Bro. Sizemore's son from Bible College...do you know why he resigned the church?