African Methodist Episcopal Church

ingrained a sense of giving back to the community. While involved in the free summer lunch program at First United Methodist Church, I was educated about the economic struggles in my surrounding area. My eyes were opened to the alarming fact that many children in my local area do not have adequate nutrition during the summer months.. Following this positive experience through my church, I now volunteer my time on Sunday mornings to teach Sunday school. When I first started, I worried if the…

All-Saints Episcopal Church was a religious experience that made my religious faith Roman Catholic to be challenged and was taught over the years. To begin, it challenged my religious faith, as some traditions that I learned from my Catholic faith were not present such as having one main Priest to there were many here involving women as well. Second, another thing that challenged the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church that I learned and being present at All-Saints Episcopal Church is hearing…

Cain (April 12, 1825 – January 18, 1887) was a minister, abolitionist, and United States Representative from South Carolina from 1873–1875 and 1877-1879. After the Civil War, he was appointed by Bishop Daniel Payne as a missionary of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in South Carolina. Richard Harvey Cain was born to a black father and a Cherokee mother in Greenbrier County Virginia, which is now in West Virginia. He was raised in Gallipolis, Ohio, a free state where he was allowed to read…

(1) Contrast Baptism in: The African Methodist Episcopal Church (AMEC) and The Baptist Church. The first notable contrast between AMEC and Baptist regarding the Baptism Liturgy. AMEC described in Article # 17, is Baptism is not only a sign of profession, and a mark difference whereby Christian are distinguished from others that are not baptized; but it also is a sign of regeneration, or the new birth. The baptism of young children is to be retained in the church. two AMEC Sacraments ordained of…

day. The first church that the we visited was Old Saint Joe’s Catholic Church. When we first go to the church, our tour guide told us about the history of all the buildings that formed the church. Once he was finished we went inside and he told us about the history of how the church was formed and what has happened to it over the years. When he was telling us all this information he was talking very fast and very verbatim.…

way. The white churches were almost always superior to colored ones, especially during the civil rights movement. While white church-goers supported people in places such as Africa, they ignored the group in their own country which needed them most: African Americans. Churches belonging to the white race were highly hypocritical due to their lack of support for peaceful African Americans throughout the mid 20th century. In a story from Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird, Aunt Alexandra hosts a…

racist beliefs against African Americans in the Birmingham Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama (“Birmingham Church Bombing”). As stated in a 2013 Newscurrents article, “The bombing took place because the church was a center of civil rights action… Four young African American girls were killed in the explosion. They were Addie Mae Collins, 14, Cynthia Wesley, 14, Carole Robertson, 14, and Denise McNair, 11” (“Remembering ‘Four Little Girls’”). In 1998, James Byrd Jr., an African American…

The Black Church refers to Protestant Christian churches who has a congregations that is predominately African American. African Methodist Episcopal Church, Church of God in Christ, Baptist, and other denominations are classic under the term the Black Church. Historically the Black Church has been the first piece of land African Americans own after slavery. The Black Church has played several different roles in African American lives dating back to slavery. The Black Church taught the slaves…

mid fifteenth century the Portuguese began taking African people as slaves out of Africa, beginning a process that led to the enslavement of millions of Africans in Europe and the Americas. Africans were made slaves because of the color of their skin. As a result, dark people became the black race and with the development of a black race came a white race. Dyllan Roof a 21-year-old, self-radicalized, white supremacist shot and killed nine African Americans…

originally hailed from the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) tradition to the Baptist tradition. Not only has she encouraged me through this transition but has been the only female individual who has, there were others who are not willing to shepherd and guide women new/young to ministry.…