The Church of God of the Original Mountain Assembly is a small

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. Representatives from churches which withdrew from the South Union Association of

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s met at the Jellico Creek church in

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and formed a new association. They chose the name Church of God. "Of the Mountain Assembly" was added later to distinguish this group from many others denominated Church of God. ''Church of God of the Original Mountain Assembly'' divided from the parent body and organized as a separate church in 1946 at

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. According to J. Gordon Melton's ''The Encyclopedia of American Religions'', the ''Church of God of the Original Mountain Assembly'' had 11 congregations in 1967. The encyclopedia classified them as white trinitarian holiness Pentecostals.

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