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