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Understanding and Avoiding the Pitfalls of the Economic Injury Disaster Loan
Understanding and Avoiding the Pitfalls of the Economic Injury Disaster Loan By Cynthia Gordon-Floyd, Contributing Writer When it began, the Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) program appeared to be a… Read More »
Churches Encourage Giving in the Midst of a Tumbling Economy
Churches Encourage Giving in the Midst of a Tumbling Economy By Angelena Spears, 1st Episcopal District Several weeks into the pandemic, every church in the Philadelphia Annual Conference began to feel… Read More »
Helping Our People Excel (HOPE Inc.) Engages AME-SADA
Helping Our People Excel (HOPE Inc.) Engages AME-SADA Helping Our People Excel (HOPE) was recently awarded a USD$190,000 grant from the Women’s Peace and Humanitarian Fund. This Fund supports women’s… Read More »
AME Church Publishing House Holds Virtual Groundbreaking
AME Church Publishing House Holds Virtual Groundbreaking TCR Staff Report On June 1, the AME Church Publishing House, led by the Rev. Dr. Roderick D. Belin, its President/Publisher, held a… Read More »
Is the AME Church Caught Up on the Messenger and Missing the Message?
Is the AME Church Caught Up on the Messenger and Missing the Message? By Adrienne Fikes, 2nd Episcopal District Ida B. Wells’s account of an 1894 Philadelphia AME minister’s meeting, shared… Read More »
Bethel-Baltimore Delivers 12,000 Pounds of Food
Bethel-Baltimore Delivers 12,000 Pounds of Food When the coronavirus pandemic fully hit the United States, Maryland Governor’s stay-at-home order went into effect in the middle of March. Ever since March… Read More »
Effective Evangelism: Are We Fishing or Hunting?
Effective Evangelism: Are We Fishing or Hunting? By Rev. Marcellus A. Norris Do you know anyone who cannot sit still? They always have to be doing something. Even when sitting, their… Read More »
The Speck and the Log: Liberating the AME Church
The Speck and the Log: Liberating the AME Church By John Thomas, III, Editor The murder of George Floyd not only prompted global outrage but also shone a light on… Read More »
God Qualifies the Called
God Qualifies the Called By Rev. Samuel Williams, Jr. “God doesn’t call the qualified, He qualifies the called” is what my mentor and friend, the late Rev. Goodwin Douglas used… Read More »
Honoring the Rev. Dr. Hercules Miles, Jr.
Honoring the Rev. Dr. Hercules Miles, Jr. By Rev. Dr. Alice Hubbard Crenshaw, 8th Episcopal District The Rev. Dr. Hercules Miles, Jr., a retired general officer, reconnected with long-time members of… Read More »
Bethel, Bloomfield Uses Caravan to Visit Deaconesses and Stewardesses
Bethel, Bloomfield Uses Caravan to Visit Deaconesses and Stewardesses On Saturday, May 2, the Rev. Daylan K. Greer, Sr., the pastor of Bethel AME Church in Bloomfield, Connecticut, along with… Read More »
The Rev. Carroll R. Chambliss, Sr.: An AME Scouting Legend
The Rev. Carroll R. Chambliss, Sr.: An AME Scouting Legend By Milton J. Chambliss Carroll R. Chambliss, Sr., and his twin brother, Carey J. Chambliss, Sr., were born on May 29,… Read More »