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From Vision to Reality: The Bishop Sarah Frances Davis Connectional Women’s Missionary Society Outpatient Health Clinic Dedication

From Vision to Reality: The Bishop Sarah Frances Davis Connectional Women’s Missionary Society Outpatient Health Clinic Dedication By Dr. Carol T. Taylor Mitchell, Special to The Christian Recorder Delice, Haiti,… Read More »

Investing in Sacred Space: Five Churches Burn Mortgages

Investing in Sacred Space: Five Churches Burn Mortgages By Patricia Wright, 11th Episcopal District   Almost from the outset of taking on a mortgage, one’s thoughts and attention weigh heavily… Read More »

Is Sin Obsolete? Why We Need the Forgiveness-Restoration Cycle 

Is Sin Obsolete? Why We Need the Forgiveness-Restoration Cycle  By Rev. Jason Richard Curry, Ph.D., Columnist I know quite a few people who pride themselves on being shameless. A number… Read More »

Immediate Past Connectional Director of Lay Activities Honored by First AME Church: Bethel

Immediate Past Connectional Director of Lay Activities Honored by First AME Church: Bethel “[N]ow finish doing it, so that your eagerness may be matched by completing it according to your… Read More »

Karaoke Hymn Singing at Bridge Street, Brooklyn, New York

Karaoke Hymn Singing at Bridge Street, Brooklyn, New York   In an effort to revive hymn singing in the local church, Bridge Street AME Church in Brooklyn, New York, has… Read More »

Light House AME Church dedicated by Bishop WJ Messiah

Light House AME Church dedicated by Bishop WJ Messiah By Rev. Rowd Mwandu, 17th Episcopal District TCR Field Representative On September 10, 2017, Light House AME Church in Chililabombwe, Zambia,… Read More »

Lessons Local Churches Can Learn From Military Strategies

Editor’s note:  November 11 commemorates Veteran’s Day in the United States and we requested Retired Editor Calvin H. Sydnor, III to write this issue’s editorial. Lessons Local Churches Can Learn… Read More »

Court Restores Assets and Programs to First AME Church

Court Restores Assets and Programs to First AME Church By Cora Jackson-Fossett, Staff Writer, LA Sentinel   The nearly five-year battle to obtain assets belonging to First AME Church of… Read More »

Celebrating the Retirement of the Rev. Dr. Ann F. Lightner-Fuller

Celebrating the Retirement of the Rev. Dr. Ann F. Lightner-Fuller By Licentiate Dawn M. Wayman, 2nd Episcopal District   After 34 years of pastoral ministry, the Rev. Dr. Ann Lightner-Fuller… Read More »

Bishop and Supervisor Young Celebrate 50 Years of Marriage

Bishop and Supervisor Young Celebrate 50 Years of Marriage On September 23, 1967, a love story for the ages began as the Rev. McKinley Young and Dorothy Jackson were wed… Read More »

Child Murder Prosecutor—AME’s Heroine in the 15th District

Child Murder Prosecutor—AME’s Heroine in the 15th District By Maggie Grootboom, 15th Episcopal District TCR Field Representative   Advocate Bonnie Currie-Gamwo (BCG), is a member of Mother Bethel AME Church,… Read More »

Powdered Pink Prayer

Powdered Pink Prayer   By Rev. Jarrett B. Washington, Columnist   Is anyone among you sick? Let them call the elders of the church to pray over them and anoint… Read More »