Know Your Church History -CLO

African Methodist Episcopal Church

Connectional Lay Organization (CLO)

KNOW YOUR CHURCH HISTORY

1. What is the AME Discipline?

2. What year was the CLO founded, and at what site?

3. Over how many areas does the Council of Bishops preside?

4. Who is the current Lay Commission Chairman?

5. What is the motto of the AME Church?

6. How many female Bishops currently serve in the AME Church?

7. Who was the first female elder elected a bishop in the AME Church?

8. According to the AME Discipline, how many Conferences are conducted in the AME Church?

9. What is the meaning of AME?

10. What is the website address for the CLO Historiographer?

11. Who was the founder of the AME denomination?

12. How often does the General Conference of the AME Church convene?

13. When and where will the next General Conference convene?

14. What does the acronym “YPD” mean?

15. Who was the first President of the CLO?

16. What is the official website for the Connectional Lay Organization?

17. In what country and Episcopal District does our current President reside?

18. What is the name of the CLO publication that displays the history of the Organization?

19. Who was the first CLO Lay Commission Chairman?

20. Where was the first CLO Biennial held?Where will it be held in 2023?

Mr. Matikane A. Makiti, CLO President

Mr. William “Bill” Ayers, CLO Historiographer

Answers to Know your Church and its History

1. The book containing the statutes and laws governing the AME Church

2. In 1912, at the site of the General Conference in Kansas City, Missouri

3. Twenty Episcopal Districts

4. Bishop Stafford J. N. Wicker (elected and consecrated the 137^th Bishop in 2016)

5. God our Father, Christ our Redeemer, the Holy Spirit our Comforter, Humankind our Family (adopted at the 2008 AME General Conference)

6. Two: Bishop Anne Henning Byfield and Bishop Francine Brookins

7. Bishop Vashti Murphy McKenzie (elected and consecrated in 2000)
8. Four Conferences (1) local church (2) quarterly (3) annual (4) general(2016 Discipline pages 247-295)

9. (A) African (M) Methodist (E) Episcopal

10. You can access the webpage by using www.ameclay.org – (Click on “Events,” then click on “In the News,” then click on Historiographer)

11. Richard Allen

12. Every four years

13. Cincinnati, Ohio In 2024

14. (Y) Young (P) Peoples (D) Department

15. Professor Charles H. Johnson

16. You can access the CLO website by using www.ameclay.org

17. Pretoria, South Africa – 19^th Episcopal District

18. CLO Historical Journal

19. Bishop Harold Bearden

20.       Chicago, Illinois, (1949) – Chicago, Illinois, (2023