The Church of God and Saints of Christ is a Black Hebrew Israelite religious group established in Lawrence, Kansas by William Saunders Crowdy in 1896. The group established its headquarters in Philadelphia in 1899, and Crowdy later relocated to Washington, D.C. in 1903. After Crowdy's death in 1908, the church continued to grow under the leadership of Joseph Wesley Crowdy, William Henry Plummer and Calvin Samuel Skinner. In 1921, William Henry Plummer moved the organization's headquarters to its permanent location in Belleville, Virginia. By 1936, the Church of God and Saints of Christ had more than 200 "tabernacles" (congregations) and 37,000 members. Howard Zebulun Plummer succeeded his father and became head of the organization in 1931. His son, Levi Solomon Plummer, became the church's leader in 1975.Since 2001, the Church of God and Saints of Christ has been led by Rabbi Jehu A. Crowdy, Jr., a great-grandson of William Saunders Crowdy. As of 2005, it had fifty tabernacles inthe United States and dozens in Africa.