After the wedding dad enrolled in Lee College and they moved into a apartment there on the campus.  He was holding revival meetings while attending school.  Shortly after that  SW Latimer asked to him to Pastor the South Cleveland Sunday School with 80 members.  South Cleveland had a mission building with a Sunday School and they moved into the apartment at the back of the Choir Loft.  They took the Choir loft and built a bedroom and that is where I, Carl E Cox Jr was born.

Dad started a revival meeting immediately in the mission building and the power of the Holy Ghost was felt in these meetings.  Lives were changed and people were healed.  The mission began to fill up and it would hold the people.  People would stand outside the windows to listen to the Word of God being preached.  Sometime that year he organized the mission into the South Cleveland Church of God.  Several years I got to attend the the Breaking Point Prison ministry because I was a prison Chaplin for NC.  While I was in Cleveland I went to visit the South Cleveland Church, the place of my birth.  I met 5 chartered members from when my dad organized the church. One of those members stood out to me a man named Clyde Ogle, he was 90 years old and still strong. He began to tell me a story of the first revival that dad started.  In that meeting his father received the Holy Ghost in dad's arms.  I will always cherish that story.  That was my dad, so loving and kind.  I can just see him embracing that man while praying.  From that revival that church grew to over 300 in attendance.  In those days that was a large church.  They had such talented sings, with such beautiful harmony.  One of them was Anna Mae & Paul Carrol Trio and he also had Eva Mae & Eurice Lefever in their church.  My mother Leota, Anna Mae & Eva Mae had a ladies quartet.  They also had a great band.  All this special anointed music just brought people to the church.  Churches need to take note of this today.  It's anointed music that brings the presence and power of God.

After this church growth, SW Latimer came to daddy and said we have an abandoned church in the Georgetown Community, and we want you to come with me to hold a meetings there.  His notoriety was beginning to spread in TN.  Dad accepted and went to the meeting.  Dad was impressed when arrived the church yard was full people sitting on their cars, chairs outside and they walked up the steps to the front door of the church and they opened the door and it was wall to wall full.  Every seat was taken.  After walking to the front of the church Brother Latimer stopped to talk with dad and said Carl, this is what we are going to do.  I will preach to the people in the auditorium and you go stand outside and preach on the steps to the people outside.  As daddy walked to the front door, he was mediating to himself and he begin to think Bro Latimer will lecture for 30 minutes and then preach 30 minutes and he said to himself, he didn't know if he could keep with Bro Latimer or not.  He opened the door and looked out at all the people looking at him outside and immediately forgot about what he was thinking about.  He heard Bro Latimer begin to preach and he opened his bible and did the same.  Through his message he heard Bro Latimer begin to give the Altar call so he said to himself, their is no altar here.  So he said to the People,  "Right where you are get down on your knees and lift your hands toward heaven and ask God to come into your heart and forgive you of your sins."  Right there grown men began to weep and wail and revival broke out in the church from the church pew to car hood.  Lives were changed and revival broke loose in that community that lasted for over 3 weeks.  So people were being changed that the local preachers went to the Sheriff to have them padlock the doors of the church just like they did to the first Church of God in the Cherokee Mountains.  All these people moved to the North Cleveland & South Cleveland Church of God to be able to hear the true spirit filled Word of God.  Bro Latimer told daddy that this was the importance of having a organized church building large enough to hold the people.