AME Member Installed as President of New Jersey Council of Churches
On Sunday, September 15, 2019, Mr. Marcus Burnett was installed as the president of the New Jersey Council of Churches (NJCC). He is the youngest person to ever serve in this position. He previously served as the organization’s Vice President.
Burnett is a member of Grant Chapel AME Church in Trenton and serves as the young adult representative of the First Episcopal District Lay Organization. The installation sermon was given by the Rev. Derrick Green, the spiritual advisor to the governor of New Jersey.
NJCC is a community of Christian communities that work together to provide a foundation for shared life and witness. The Council includes the following denominations and judicatories:
African Methodist Episcopal Church of New Jersey
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church of New Jersey
American Baptist Churches of New Jersey
Christian Church
Christian Methodist Episcopal Church
Church Women United
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
Episcopal Church Diocese of Newark
General Baptist State Convention of New Jersey
Presbyterian Church
Reformed Church in America
Religious Society of Friends
The Salvation Army
Union American Methodist Episcopal Church
United Church of Christ
United Methodist Church
