Category: General Board 2025

Women in Ministry Installation Service
By TCR Staff On June 16, over 200 AME clergy and laity gathered to celebrate the installation of the Connectional AME Women in Ministry Officers. Elected at the 2024 General… Read More »

Summary Report from the 2025 General Board
By TCR Staff The 2025 General Board Meeting of the African Methodist Episcopal Church convened from June 16–18 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, at the Omni Hotel under the guidance of… Read More »

Juneteenth and the Uncomfortable Truth
By Rev. Dr. Kip Banks Sr. Juneteenth is sacred to me. It is not merely a holiday. It is a homecoming of the spirit, a holy moment of truth-telling, a… Read More »

10 Years Later…Mother Emanuel AME Church: God Has Prepared a City for them
By Rev. Jarrett B. Washington, MACE, MDiv, 7th Episcopal District 13 All of these died in faith without having received the promises, but from a distance they saw and greeted… Read More »

“A Century of Witness: A Reflection on the AME Church in Malawi”
By Ronald Erastus Mkandawire, 20th Episcopal District Lay Organisation President May 26, 2024. This date will forever be etched in the hearts of the African Methodist Episcopal Church family in Malawi…. Read More »

Violence vs. Genocide in South Africa: A Call for Truth and Christian Witness
As Christians, our integrity as witnesses depends on how well we manage truth in a society of biased news and digital distortion. Particularly when discussing issues of life and death,… Read More »

We Are Lay – On the Way to the 39th Biennial Convention
By Patricia Henderson Wright, Connectional Director of Lay Activities To me, the Lay Organization is one component of the AME Church that everyone should have some familiarity with. Everyone begins… Read More »

“A Calling Beyond the Clinic: Merging Medicine and Ministry”
For Women’s Herstory Month, Connectional Women in Ministry has decided to highlight women in ministry who are bi-vocational and see their professions in their calls to ministry. Many of the… Read More »

Our Black History: How Richard Allen’s Vision Lives on Through Our Church
By Tra’Nyce Jones, Connectional YPD Communications Secretary Junior at Kennesaw State University Major: Biology It is easy to look around and see how our AME Church has grown and thrived in recent years, but… Read More »