Category: Frontpage
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 »
Help us Build St. John, Maseru!
Help us Build St. John, Maseru! By Rev. Beatrice ‘Mamphethe Motokoa, 18th Episcopal District In the past five to six years, Agnes Ball AME Church has grown to be… Read More »
19th Episcopal District Lay Organization 33rd Annual Convention
The 33rd Session of the 19th Episcopal District Lay Organization Convention convened at Umlazi Grace AME Church, a newly built church with a capacity of 500 seats, September 22-24, 2017…. Read More »