Pathway Press

Beginning in 1920, this site served publishing, educational, worship, and administrative ministries of the Church of God. Its publishing ministry traced back to the first issue of The Evening Light and Church of God Evangel on March 1, 1910. Along with the monthly Church of God Evangel, the press published periodicals, Sunday school literature, song books, books, and other printed resources, and it adopted the name Pathway Press in 1956. In 1920 the Church of God built an Assembly Auditorium on the southeast corner of Eleventh Street and Montgomery Avenue, where annual Assemblies met from 1920 to 1933, the North Cleveland Church worshipped until 1939, and the Bible Training School, now Lee University, used the facilities until 1938. In 1913 General Overseer and Editor A. J. Tomlinson built a 20 x 30 feet building at 2524 Grant Street to print the Church of God Evangel, moved the general overseer's office there in 1915, and expanded the building three times before a new printing and office building was constructed on Montgomery Avenue. In 1935 the Church of God Publishing House and the denomination's international offices relocated from Grant Street to this site, the administrative offices later moved to Keith Street in 1068, and Pathway Press relocated to Twenty-Fifth Street in 2008. Under the trade name Tennessee Music and Printing Company, Pathway Press became one of the world's largest publishers of shape note music, including millions of copies of its best-selling Church Hymnal; music based on seven shapes rather than round notes remained popular because of its ease of learning.

Cleveland, Tennessee · United States