Members believe that Father Divine fulfills the scriptural promise of the Second Coming of Christ, is the personification of God in a bodily form, and that heaven is a state of consciousness. This state is being materialized, in as much as the members believe that America is the birthplace of the Kingdom of Cod on earth, which will be realized when everyone lives the life of Christ. Daily Father Divine founded the churches under the Peace Mission Movement which were incorporated in 1940 and 1941 Mother Divine, with the recognition of Father Divine's Ever Presence, became the Spiritual Head in 1965. There are no ministers and there is no prescribed ritual in the church services. Those in attendance are free to testify, sing, read scripture and the Words of Father Divine or Mother Divine, or offer praise to God as they are led to do from any inner prompting.
Services feature congregational singing.
The only sacrament is Holy Communion, served daily as a full course meal to which all are welcome. The mission stands for the absolute fatherhood and motherhood of God and the universal brotherhood of man. Its members believe that a person is a person-not a specified race, color, nationality, or religion, and they live integrated together as brothers and sisters in the family of God and as members only of the human race. They avoid all reference to color or race. Members of the mission live communally in the churches and affiliated sorority and fraternity houses.