Category: Connectional Organizations
AME Church Growth Corner
Is Your Church Drifting? (Part 5) By Reverend Dr. Marcellus A. Norris Churches drift when there is a growing desire to look like the world and blend in with the culture… Read More »
Parliamentary Procedures: The Foundation of Orderly Governance
By: Mark Johnson, Connectional YPD Parliamentarian Parliamentary law is an essential component of democratic governance, ensuring that meetings, discussions, and decision-making processes are conducted in a fair, orderly, and efficient… Read More »
Mothering and Mentoring in Ministry
Rev. Stephanie M. Atkins, AMEWIM Connectional Herstoriographer During this sacred season of Mother’s Day, Connectional Women in Ministry celebrates the women who mother and mentor others in ministry. After serving… Read More »
Annual One Day with the Lay
By Elbert N. Davis, NCCLO President, Second Episcopal District On the fourth Sunday in March, the North Carolina Conference Lay Organization (NCCLO) held its “Annual One Day with the Lay”… Read More »
Bishop Gregory Eason urges churches to embrace technology to spread the gospel
By Limukani Ncube, 20th Episcopal District Lay Second Vice President Bishop Gregory Eason of the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church 20th District has called on churches to embrace digital platforms… 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 »
Faith in Action: The Legacy of AME Church Planting in Malawi
By Florence Gulure Nyalaya 20th Episcopal District Lay Organization The African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church was founded in 1816 by Rev. Richard Allen in the United States of America. The church… Read More »
IS MY CHURCH DRIFTING? PART 4
By Rev. Dr. Marcellus A. Norris Churches Drift Because Their Leadership Drifts Arnold Cook, in Historical Drift, offers a powerful observation: “Organizations don’t drift, only their leaders.” This statement places the… Read More »
The African Methodist Episcopal Church International Health Commission (AMEC IHC), writes to inform members of the African Methodist Episcopal Church Congregation and Friends, of the Natural Disasters experienced by the 20th Episcopal District.
The 20th Episcopal District located in Mozambique, East Africa, under the leadership of Bishop Gregory Eason, faced the disastrous and deveasting, Tropical Cyclone Jude on March 10th, 2025. Cyclone Jude has displaced… 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 »
IS MY CHURCH DRIFTING? PART 3
By Rev. Dr. Marcellus A. Norris, Executive Director of Church Growth and Development Churches rarely fall overnight; instead, they drift—slowly, almost imperceptibly—lulled into complacency by the enemy’s most insidious tactic:… Read More »